Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Brave ragazze, cattivo sangue by Holly Jackson

12 reviews

that_awkwardpart's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Blood, Child death, Death, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual assault, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual violence, Rape, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual assault, and Violence

melonque's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious slow-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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Death, Murder, Child abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Violence, Kidnapping, and Stalking

Minor: Torture

hiraethtales's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

I LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS BOOK. I would definitely recommend this. Pip deserves the world. Max Hasting pissed me off. Ravi is just ❤️. Cara slayed. Jamie was kinda meh. I felt that he was a bit naive and he really really needs to get his life straightened out. I disliked him a lot and I feel so bad for his parents. Nat was portrayed wonderfully

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Gore, Child death, Bullying, Blood, Abandonment, Gaslighting, Stalking, Medical trauma, Gun violence, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Drug use, Death, Deadnaming, Child abuse, Murder, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, and Body horror

bones_jackson's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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

Nossa, que continuação incrível, foi muito bem escrito a trama, trazendo coisas do livro passado pra esse enquanto um mistério novo acontece, gostei muito 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Confinement, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Murder, Violence, and Medical content

Moderate: Kidnapping

Minor: Death, Emotional abuse, Murder, Suicide, Torture, Kidnapping, and Physical abuse

m0rdred_the_fallen's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

Agarré este libro porque había oído buenas cosas de la autora, pero no me dí cuenta de que es el 2do en la serie hasta que me metí aquí a Storygraph y pensé en dejarlo para después cuando tuviera el 1ero

Oh. Mi. Titán.

Que bueno que no lo hice, es de los mejores misterios que he leído, de no ser por mi trabajo me hubiera terminado el libro en un día. A ver, no voy a mentir si es sorprendente donde inician y donde terminan, pero el misterio no está mal hecho, las diferentes tramas son resueltas en tiempo y forma, los giros de trama que tiene van construyendo la expectativa para cuando se revela la verdad del asunto, los temas que trata y la forma en que Pip cambia a lo largo del libro *cheff kiss*

Hay 3 cosas que me gustaría resaltar:
1)

El uso del trope No somos tan distintos/somos iguales con la revelación de que Charlie Green es el hermano menor de la última víctima del Monstruo de Margate porque, en efecto, Pip y él no son distintos, Charlie incluso le ayuda a Pip a llegar a terminos con su propia forma de ser. Quisiera que usaran así el trope más seguido, que ni tú ni el personaje estén del todo seguros (o bien sepan) que son iguales. Les apuesto lo que quieran a que Pip no derrama ni una lágrima por Max Hastings.

2)

Pip toma la justicia en sus manos y Charlie Green obtiene su venganza y ni la autora o uno de los personajes sale de santurrón con No, esa no es la forma de proceder, debes subirte a este pedestal de moralidad hueca y decirte que eres mejor que eso hasta que te convenzas. Miren no digo que haya que hacer siempre como ellos, pero le tengo un gran respeto a Charlie por haberse puesto esa meta y lograrlo (A diferencia de Edmond Dantés). Y también me siento orgulloso de que Pip vandalizara la casa de los Hastings y que defendiera a Stanley Forbes

3) Que Pip encuentre su sentido de moral propio y que decida vivir según este es de los mejores mensajes que he visto en tiempos recientes. 

Ya auiero leer los otros libros en esta serie 😄😄 

Sobre lo de que Max Hastings sale libre a pesar de ser un violador en serie comprobado, me encantaria un libro donde la víctima es él. Acusan a Pip del crimen e investiga el caso para limpiar su nombre pero dejanfo ir libre al verdadero culpable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Misogyny, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Addiction, Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Stalking, and Torture

Minor: Car accident, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

bookswithlauren's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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? Yes

4.5

Like the first book in the series, this was also an incredible book. I did find it to be a little less together than 'A Good Girls Guide to Murder' but I still absolutely loved the book. The characters and the plot line were well planned and executed. I watch and read a lot of crime based shows, movies and books and often find myself working out the ending way before I reach it but with this, there were so many options and twists that I found myself guessing over and over again as the plot developed.

Again, the audiobook only added to my reading experience with this book as it is a full cast audiobook but it also has phone calls as actual phone calls, when Pip is reading from her case notes, you can hear the movement of paper, when she records conversations, you can hear the equipment whirring and beeping etc. The audiobook was a fully immersive experience and it was brilliant. I also really enjoyed hearing elements of the podcast created by Pip in this book, it was a clever continuation from the first book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, Blood, Child death, Gaslighting, Cursing, Kidnapping, Medical content, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, Rape, Stalking, Torture, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual harassment

aseel_reads's review against another edition

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? Yes

4.0

I really liked the themes this book talked about, things like justice and owning your darker side. While I liked the mystery and were super engaged with it, I did find the final twist/reveal to be super left field, very out of the blue and random 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, Torture, Alcohol, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Rape, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual assault, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Child death, Drug use, and Grief

jessicasophie's review against another edition

dark 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Drug abuse, Murder, Stalking, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Torture, Blood, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

hi_there's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative 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: Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Bullying and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Alcohol, Car accident, Medical content, Mental illness, and Torture

asipofcozy's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

3.0

I am keeping this review shortish because my brain is blah today! So I enjoyed Good Girl, Bad Blood (GGBB), still not as much as I enjoyed AGGGTM. AGGGTM focused on solving a murder case, and due to my love of true crime, I preferred that over a missing person's case, which is what Good Girl, Bad Blood focused on.

I will admit Holly Jackson does a great job of writing a mystery. Just like in AGGGTM, I really couldn't guess the whole ending. I put together some pieces early on, but that's it, and I am known for guessing a mystery very early on 😬.

Pip and her character development were interesting, to say the least. At first, you think that she has come out reasonably unscathed with solving the murder of Andie and Sal; however, the further you get into this book, you start to realize Pip is not all there, and she is slipping back into old and worse habits. She is so desperate for the truth that she is willing to do anything. However, with that being said Pip believes herself above the law. If someone else commits a crime, they are guilty. If she herself does something it's okay. Towards the end of GGBB, Pip becomes very hypocritical and self-centered.

GGBB could have been done without the "romance". The romance between Ravi and Pip was so silly and out of place. It's more of a best-friend relationship than a romantic one. GGBB isn't focused on romance and is all about mystery. So it's jarring when Ravi comes into a scene and you are reminded, "oh, that's right, they are together," and it happens every time. Also, Pip treats Ravi like trash in GGBB when he enters the few scenes he is in. She care's little for his thoughts and makes him feel like he is out to get her.

Finally, what really irked me about Pip was her taking away the voice of the sexual assault victims. She, herself, was never assaulted yet she makes the Max Hastings trial about her and only her. She pushes the true victims aside and tries to take the spotlight in the whole scenario. She took the victim's voices away, even if it was unintentional. That is NOT okay.

And when she finds out he is not guilty, she goes on this rampage as if her world was torn down around her and not the victims. Destroying his home and taking revenge for herself and not the girls that were assaulted by him.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Stalking, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Rape, and Sexual assault