Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson

53 reviews

aleilvandrea's review against another edition

adventurous funny 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gun violence, Blood, Body horror, Stalking, and Death

Moderate: Terminal illness, Drug abuse, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Drug use, Addiction, Physical abuse, Child death, Rape, Cancer, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Sexual violence, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

Minor: Car accident

grace_reads13's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Kidnapping, Bullying, Child death, Grief, Drug use, Gun violence, Murder, Stalking, Death, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Violence

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

puddleshoes's review against another edition

dark lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence

Moderate: Sexual violence

Minor: Rape

jackieyvette's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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? No

4.75

This was a great second book and I can’t wait to read the third. Pip and Ravi being back at another case should feel the same, but there was something about this time that just felt more dark and gritty. I’m happy the author doesn’t water down the story for a more YA feel, the story is just as I could imagine it in adult fiction just with a YA cast. 
A perfect book for fall. 


Crying score: yup 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Kidnapping, Murder, Rape, Stalking, Sexual violence, Gun violence, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Drug abuse, Blood, Child abuse, Gore, and Grief

lucylouise7's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Drug abuse, Stalking, Rape, Sexual harassment, Violence, Gun violence, Death, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Domestic abuse, Grief, Sexual violence, and Murder

jayden_ch11's review against another edition

adventurous 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? Yes

5.0

the first book in this series is my favorite book and this one did not disappoint either. Pippa is thrown back into detective work and this time its almost more emotional. (i did cry through the entirety of the last 3 chapters)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Mental illness, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Cursing and Gun violence

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Drug use, Rape, and Sexual violence

marxnapxrez's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny 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? Yes

4.0

Okay so... I really liked the first one and even thought i liked this one as well, it wasn't the same.
I don't know if it is because I read the first one a long time ago and i didn't really remember it but I felt too unbother through all of it.
Like yes I love my girl pip and ravi and I really like the theme and the way it is written but it didn't really catch me (emotionally ig).
I enjoyed it and when I put myself to read I couldn't quite stop but it didn't felt like the first one, like, to be honest, jamie was too much of a background character for me.
Will read the third because the end of this one gave me hope, we are again with pip and how everything affected her (that somehow I don't think it was really mentioned). Really excited about the third, as I heard is a good end for the thrilogy.
Over all, a good book but personally prefered the first.





-mid spoiler ahead-
pd: also so important to say that i really liked how holly worked through the trauma, and the anger with both Max and what happened with Stanley. That was the part that really touched me, the feeling of unfairness and honestly pip did nothing compared with what i would do to max.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual assault, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Blood, Cursing, Kidnapping, and Rape

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Stalking, Sexual violence, and Rape

insanelyfruity's review against another edition

dark emotional funny 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Gun violence, and Death

Minor: Kidnapping, Sexual violence, and Violence

profilernewt07's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? Yes

5.0

Another five star for Holly Jackson is well deserved, I know that this is the only outlier within the whole series as this book is the one “least liked within the series.” Maybe it had something to do with the underdog take the book had, but if anything I enjoyed this book more than the first. The main character Pip is more unhinged and more motivated than ever <seing as the case of the missing boy- Jamie Reynolds, hits close to home seeing as one of her best friends is brother to Jamie. I loved the friendships she forms especially in this book since it shows her connection to Nat Da Silva is one unmatched, Pip was able to support her in a way that only they understood. Although, there was similar parts in A Good Girls Guide To Murder I just personally enjoyed this one better seeing as- at least for me, if had more emotional depth seeing as we (the readers) were with Pip through everything that happened to her in the barn, and it was way more tense then in A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Rape, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Bullying, Death, Car accident, Cancer, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual violence