Reviews tagging Addiction

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

85 reviews

livia_d's review

adventurous dark emotional inspiring 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Animal death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Murder

lsmith19's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

I loved every second of this book!!!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Murder, Pedophilia, Stalking, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Grief, Sexual harassment, Bullying, Addiction, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Animal death, and Death

luvdivy's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Addiction, and Death

camillewhowrites's review

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Violence, Suicide, Sexual violence, Self harm, and Rape

Minor: Cursing and Alcohol

madyou's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Stalking, Animal death, Murder, Racism, Rape, Grief, and Mental illness

rosem_'s review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Soooooooo good! Go look at my full review on goodreads

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Addiction, Murder, Suicide, Vomit, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Cursing, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Violence, Blood, Bullying, Car accident, and Drug use

babsi_222's review

adventurous dark informative mysterious sad slow-paced

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

5.0

I absolutely enjoyed this book. I don’t know what I expected from it, but it definitely wasn’t what it ended up being. I would 100% read it again and I’m so excited for the whole  series Holly Jackson published with the same characters and everything.
The Plot Twist(s !) are absolutely shocking and amazing and the book is so well written!
The whole solving a crime the police closed (not finished case)  is so girl-boss and slay I love it!!!!!!!
also I really like the characters, especially Pippa

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although I was pretty annoyed with her about how she handled the whole death threats situation. I would’ve gone to a trusted person and tell them but that’s how she reacted ig

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The Love Story of Pip and Ravi was so fucking obvious and wasn’t well integrated in the story. They just kissed once and hold hands at the end of the book and you have to make everything up :/ hopefully we see mire between them

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Alcoholism, Bullying, Car accident, Drug use, Eating disorder, Grief, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Alcohol, Murder, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Stalking, and Body shaming

obroek's review

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Suicide, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Animal death, Sexual assault, and Child death

Minor: Car accident, Self harm, Addiction, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, and Drug use

shahdhazem's review

adventurous challenging mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

This started off really good I was invested in the case and the author kept uncovering evidence in a very fast pace I was really enjoying it but after approximately the first 100 pages all this fell down she just crammed everything in the beginning that the rest of the book was so boring all I was thinking that I just want to know who did it and get it over with. Also I found the author really extreme in describing who andie was like how could someone be THAT bad like it was too much. Also it was a very bad idea to Involve romance in the main plot it erased the mystery vibe completely this all felt like some cheap teen drama show. The reveal of who did it at the end wasn't shocking to me I won't say I was expecting it I wasn't but still my reaction was like "okay that sucks let's move" so yeah this wasn't a good experience for me definitely an overhyped book like so much more books out there it's really getting frustrating by now how much people hype bad books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Injury/injury detail, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Grief, Murder, Emotional abuse, and Animal death

Moderate: Addiction, Suicide, and Alcohol

anewton's review

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-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? Yes

4.0

A fast-paced murder mystery with a surprise around every corner. Unpredictable characters and plot, with storylines that cleverly intertwine. A very easy read, with drama right up until the very end. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Suicide, Self harm, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, Murder, Death, Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Rape, Kidnapping, Drug use, Alcohol, and Sexual assault