Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson

175 reviews

pianoplayer279's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

This is one of the best book series I’ve ever read! This one wasn’t as good as the first one but extremely close behind. Age 14+

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Kidnapping

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Gun violence, Blood, Grief, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

annikenr's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Rape, Kidnapping, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Sexual assault, Suicide, Violence, Stalking, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

johnpfromkc's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad medium-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? No

3.75

If you liked the first book,  you'll like this one.  

The podcast format was pretty tough to belive but if you look past that,  it was busy as good as the first one. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug use, and Death of parent

angelikae's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, and Suicidal thoughts

hesa_is_a_kiwi's review against another edition

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

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

4.75

the plot is insane - i could not recall it now if you asked me. (at least not exactly).
it was extremely suspenseful and i binge-read the last third of it, because i simply could NOT put it away. 

it is super interesting how this book (series) deals with the idea of "good" and "bad" - noone is really completely "good" and noone is thoroughly "bad" either. 

apart from that i also love how holly jackson plays with the formatting in suspenseful scenes, and her writing style is (apart from genius and very clear-cut) also full of metaphors. i love it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Blood

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, and Rape

jhna04's review against another edition

dark hopeful 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

5.0

Gjennomgående 150 i puls

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: Alcoholism and Drug abuse

ross_emm's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

I read the first AGGGTM book in late 2021 and for some reason never finished off this series, but boy am I glad I am now! I appreciated how easy this story was to get in to, not much information is needed from the previous book but they still have a very strong connection. 

Honestly my main (and really only) qualm with this book is how young Pip is! It's hard for me to wrap my head her only being 17/18, like hello adults in her life help her??? why is pip chasing down murders and solving misssing persons cases before graduating high school!?

I do love the additional case files, podcast excerpts, and photos added in really keeps me in the action. Jamie is an intriguing character and I loved getting to learn about him!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Rape, Blood, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Drug abuse

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, and Fire/Fire injury

chezler24's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

"Mysteries always seem to find their way to you, don't they?" - p. 130

Now THIS is what I call a sequel! It's been a minute since I read the first book in the series, but Holly Jackson does a great job at dropping you back into this small town with more secrets than it can keep. Pip has vowed to attempt to solve a crime again for her safety as well as the safety of those she holds dear; however, as the quote states, mysteries find their way to her doorstep. Connor, one of the kids in her grade, approaches her and begs her to help find his missing brother. Since no one else will help him, she decides she must take on this missing person's case. Jackson carefully lays out the clues for this case as the trial for events in the previous book plays out in the background. I loved the podcast element of this book as well. The ending is a mixed back of emotions but I simply cannot wait to see what Pippa gets up to in the final installment of this series. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Rape, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

a_l_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

3.5

personal review notes:

C 6/10
A 7/10
W 7/10
P 7/10
I 7/10
L 5/10
E 6/10

-> 5.4/10
-> 3 stars

• C: by now you know the main characters quite well, i still get confused with te side characters though. i coulnd't describe them in more than two sentences if i had to & when charlie green turned out to be the catfish i was trying to figure out who his is during the whole chapter...
• P: it definitely didn't go where i thought it would, but over all i found it a bit wired. the whole child brunswick thing was super interesting and gave a cool twist, but the way it played out... idk. i was definitely expecting something different
• L: i don't know with these murder mysteries... there are always thing that don't make that much sense to me. the whole layla meads thing, how did she get in contact with all possible child bronswicks over tinder or instagram..? hwo did nobody notice that she used pictures of some student, i thought kilton was a small town. why did stanley keep jamey in his bathroom for seven days??? like whaat? like i get he was scared but whaaat?
• E: it was entertaining, would i listen to it again? no.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Gun violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death

aida_x's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense 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

4.5

The book had a slow-burning start, but after the plot twist, the ending paced up and was emotional af. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, and Murder

Moderate: Hate crime and Kidnapping