Reviews tagging Death

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, by Holly Jackson

501 reviews

_mariah_'s review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Stalking, Drug use, Kidnapping, and Grief

Moderate: Animal death, Car accident, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, Rape, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Alcohol, Body shaming, Adult/minor relationship, and Self harm

evie102's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious relaxing sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

This book was fast-paced, but it was surprisingly easy and fun to read too. It was not very convoluted in terms of plot, since you did not have to focus so much on the details. It was just fun and thrilling and I genuinely liked the plot a lot!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, and Vomit

Minor: Alcohol, Murder, Kidnapping, Drug use, and Violence

There is only menial mentions of drug use in this book. The themes of murder and kidnapping are very present indeed. Also this book has a major plot of unethical sexual relationships, so they are something to be considered if you are a minor. But it is nothing majorly serious (especially for me, I am not sure how it may impact others), so genuinely I believe if ou are 13+ then you can read this book.

nv0101's review

adventurous dark funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Gaslighting, Death, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Self harm, Infidelity, Body shaming, and Child death

Minor: Abandonment and Body horror

leanneymu's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

A great mystery story with a diverse cast of believeable characters. I read this as an audiobook, and the voice acting was also top-notch. YA Fiction suitable for 14+ but very enjoyable for adults too! Lots of trigger warnings (as you might expect for a murder/thriller) but compelling and engaging, and well worth a read. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Stalking, Drug abuse, Death, Murder, Vomit, Sexual violence, and Animal death

katherinek's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

This was really giving me Pretty Little Liars vibes! The plot was well done and there was so much depth to it, but I wish the author would've devoted just as much energy to shaping the main characters. Most of them lacked depth for me, including Pip who just seemed like another "I'm not like other girls" type of character--that is, until the last 50 pages or so, where she became a lot more dynamic for me. The college application part of the plot fell pretty flat for me personally, as well as the "threats" she was getting, which never really seemed that important until

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Barney died...which, in my opinion, wasn't necessary.

When it comes to the writing, there were definitely some cheesy parts but also some really pretty lines

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For instance, Pip getting drugged was written so well, I felt like I was really experiencing it!

. There is a LOT of information given to you in this book, and the author helps you keep track of it with the reports and suspect list that Pip has at the end of all of them. I really appreciated the map at the beginning and I wish we could've had more visual aids like that one

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I really wanted to see the murder board that Pip and Ravi made in part three, for example

. All of this information really started to pile up for me and got so messy to the point where I kept forgetting things and getting confused, and because of that, the ending was pretty underwhelming because I was learning so much at one time and I just couldn't keep up with everything at that point.

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Also, why did Pip magically realize that it was Elliot and that he was keeping Andie in the house? In my opinion she didn't have nearly enough evidence for this and jumped to that conclusion VERY fast

Despite being kind of unrealistic, the ending was written pretty well. I liked how Pip called out the press for making Andie seem like a good person, when she was actually pretty awful.

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Also, am I the only one who was convinced that Andie was still alive and behind all of this for like 90% of the book?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Alcohol, Drug use, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Blood, Bullying, Drug abuse, Injury/injury detail, Kidnapping, and Rape

av0ncor3's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Bullying, Drug use, and Animal death

deadgirlwalking23's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Animal death, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Death, Self harm, Drug use, Kidnapping, Rape, Injury/injury detail, Blood, and Sexual assault

samanthamurk's review

adventurous emotional mysterious sad

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

WOW i’m in total shock from the ending. such a good read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Violence, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Rape, Pedophilia, Kidnapping, Grief, Drug use, Death, Child death, Injury/injury detail, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Murder, Child abuse, and Blood

Moderate: Bullying and Misogyny

klubbgodis's review

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide and Death

Minor: Animal death

readerorwateva's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Drug abuse, and Death

Moderate: Rape, Medical trauma, Toxic friendship, Suicide, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Adult/minor relationship, Vomit, Sexual assault, Racism, Body shaming, Death of parent, Car accident, and Self harm