Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Five Survive: Locked-Room-Thriller - eingesperrt in einem Campingbus - unglaublich packend by Holly Jackson

75 reviews

icedlemonade's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

inkysplodge's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Gore, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Infidelity, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Classism

alexiconic's review against another edition

4.0

When describing or reviewing this book I mostly think “nice”. Five Survive was a very nice book. The suspense was great, the character conflicts were nice, the twists were good, the build-up was cool, the representation of grief and adhd-like experiences of red was good. It wasn’t perfect - sometimes the repetition (although clearly purposeful) was  too much for me, some of the character relations could’ve been more fleshed out, sometimes the pacing was a bit inconsistent - but it was a good, enjoyable, nice thriller. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Blood, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

lucyjansmith's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

ellvee3838's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated

5.0

It was a very fast paced book. I started it and was questioning whether I was going to like it but I quickly found out that I was. I finished it in one day it was so good I couldn’t stop reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Blood, and Death of parent

Moderate: Gun violence, Police brutality, and Injury/Injury detail

thursday_iris's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing

yara_mcg44's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Cursing, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Gaslighting

readwithde's review against another edition

tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I was so excited for another book by Holly Jackson, but this one did not live up to the magic of the Good Girl's Guide series.

Thecentral mystery was interesting, but treated as a B plot. The main plot -- the teens trapped in the RV -- became much more annoying in light of the actual circumstances. 

All in all, not bad, but I would have loved to borrow this from the library instead of using an Audible credit.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Gun violence, Murder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Bullying, Blood, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Addiction, Death, Infidelity, and Police brutality

priscillarobock's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

anjh's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

oh my god. wow. how do i put all my thoughts about this book into one review. the amount of times i was holding my breath or about to beat up oliver (fuck oliver) through the page or getting literal shivers down my spine. this thriller was THRILLING let me tell you, holly jackson has some way of keeping you guessing and keeping you on the edge of your seat wondering “then who is it?? what?? how??” and suddenly a few pages down the track everything makes sense and slots into place and you beat yourself up for not realising sooner how holly tricked you and played with your mind through her writing, to make you believe and empathise with characters that were actually plotting violence and silently hating characters that were completely innocent. there were a few points in this book - particularly towards the start - where i almost felt like the writing style was similar to that of a poorly written wattpad fanfiction just because of the way holly has chosen to repeat seemingly useless details over and over and over again and i was thinking “why on earth is this relevant??” but thinking about it in more detail and reading online analyses of this book it makes sense that red is so detail focused and obsessive likely as a result of trauma. 

i love red so much and can relate to her a lot and i hate oliver. i really hate oliver. fuck oliver. oliver sucks. the light blue tabs are “fuck oliver” tabs. oh and the letter at the end oh my god holly jackson will be paying for my therapy after this. ***PLS CHECK THE CONTENT WARNINGS IF UR THINKING OF READING!!***

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Medical content, Murder, and Alcohol

Minor: Cancer and Confinement