Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson

19 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

katben2232's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Child death, Murder, and Blood

Moderate: Kidnapping, Cancer, and Terminal illness

Minor: Stalking and Suicide

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

christineolivia's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Kidnapping, Violence, Death, and Gun violence

Moderate: Drug use and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Sexual assault and Terminal illness

maddison20's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Drug use, and Grief

Moderate: Car accident, Stalking, Cursing, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, Medical content, Rape, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Murder, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Blood, and Child death

Minor: Kidnapping, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Car accident, Gun violence, Terminal illness, Blood, Cursing, Medical content, Mental illness, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, Toxic relationship, and Murder

the_readingwitch's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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: Kidnapping, Violence, Blood, Death, and Gun violence

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Terminal illness

cristinareading's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Child death, Terminal illness, Fatphobia, and Stalking

Minor: Sexual assault

elliizzzabeth's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Excellent sequel to A Good Girl's guide to murder. Extremely gripping, I burned through the audiobook in only a few days, finding every moment to find out what happened. 
I liked the new angle with a live case now and we get to see the reaction of the family as well as the way the podcast episodes affect them. Again, it wasn't the biggest twist of all time and I was able to work out most of it before the reveal. Although I did think that

it was a little bit too obvious to have the new neighbours as the killers. You knew they had to have something to do with the case otherwise why had they been included?

This edition of the audiobook (because I belive there is another) was very well done with effects put in that really added to the story. However I am tempted to recommend you read this in print as there were several images in the story that were mentioned but that obviously I couldn't see. Also there is one section where a witness uses a voice modulator and it was completely impossible to tell what he was saying. Luckily it wasn't too crucial but it was kind of annoying 
Looking forward to the 3rd book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Murder, Rape, Blood, Death, and Gun violence

Moderate: Car accident, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Stalking, Mental illness, and Alcohol

Minor: Confinement, Cancer, Stalking, Child abuse, Suicide, and Terminal illness

There is a side plot about a court trial of a serial rapist and his victims and also at the end Pip suffers from a lot of disassociation and ptsd-type symptoms

teesreads'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? No

5.0

This book was so much better than the first one, and I loved the first one, so that's saying a lot. This one had me on the edge of my seat because it was an active investigation instead of one that had already been "solved," and I never saw the end coming.

I was so shook when it was revealed that Layla knew who Pip was. I thought something horrible was going to happen to her, and I cried when Stanley did, even though I didn't like him in the first book.<spioler>  Ant and Lauren are both pos's.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Murder, Toxic relationship, Death, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Rape and Terminal illness

isitamonito'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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Murder

Moderate: Blood and Grief

Minor: Terminal illness, Cancer, and Rape