Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson

23 reviews

danileah07's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Confinement, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, and Dementia

Minor: Toxic relationship

toonyballoony's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping and Confinement

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Abandonment, and Death

Minor: Pregnancy, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, and Stalking

maddiela's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Murder

dblue236's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Trigger warnings: Kidnapping, childhood loss of parents, gaslighting, emotional abuse. 

I can honestly say I didn't see the end of this book coming, and I ended up siding with characters I sort of hated throughout most of the book and vice versa. This felt very much like watching a movie and while it wasn't always necessarily realistic or terribly intricate, it was entertaining as hell and I didn't really want it to end. This author never disappoints. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Dementia, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Stalking, Death of parent, Abandonment, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Murder, Pregnancy, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Body shaming and Infidelity

wylanslcve's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

the funny thing about this book is that, even though I'd already pieced together 85% of what really happened fairly early on, holly jackson somehow managed to confuse me and make me second-guess myself consistently throughout this book in typical holly jackson fashion but honestly? I'm not complaining - this book is incredible in every sense of the word. it's very much what you'd expect there to be in one of jackson's books, filled with twists and turns and a meticulously-crafted mystery that left me completely hooked. seriously, I powered through most of the second half of this book in a single day, which is unusual for me nowadays. I do, however, have a couple of gripes with this one because no book is perfect and you need to be able to critically evaluate the media you're consuming, especially if it's media you enjoy:

1) the romance in this felt underdeveloped and frankly a bit forced. the chemistry between the two characters comes out of nowhere given how their dynamic never really changes over the course of the book, and even though it was sweet I didn't really care for it because of how little relationship development there is between them. they still felt like strangers to each other (at least, from my perspective) and it seemed like the only reason they were even paired with each other is because the love interest was the only age-appropriate person within bel's proximity.

2) I had a similar issue with some of jackson's other books (namely a good girl's guide to murder since the structure of the reappearance of rachel price is more similar to that than five survive), but it felt like most of the people were giving information up way too easily. I know bel is characterised as a persistent, "doesn't take no for an answer" type of person, but the way people were giving her the information she needed almost instantaneously without bel having to put up much of a fight felt extremely unrealistic to me. I get it, it's fiction, it's ya, it's meant to be unrealistic, but it still bothered me.

regardless, this book did not disappoint and holly jackson remains an instant-read author for me!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Grief, Death, Torture, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Stalking, Violence, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Body shaming, Dementia, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

ella7211's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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: Abandonment, Murder, Toxic relationship, and Kidnapping

rejstone_'s review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

She is a genius??? However it always takes me a while to get into HoJay books but then I absolutely live for nothing else in the third of the book so??? Worth it for the drama and the suspense and the plot twists 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment

Moderate: Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Dementia, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Kidnapping

matidareads's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.75

Holly Jackson has done it again. She is talented at writing twisted YA thrillers/ mysteries. The characters are so complex and well thought out and their relationships have so many dynamics. Rachel Price is such a scary and untrustworthy character. But the more you read the more you realise you can’t trust anyone . I love Bel as the main character. She is so independent and curious. This is such a great book. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pregnancy, Murder, Chronic illness, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Violence, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, and Gaslighting

kendra_taylors_version's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Confinement, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, and Stalking

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Minor: Pregnancy

margaretwaltemath09's review against another edition

challenging mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Abandonment, and Cursing

Moderate: Kidnapping, Death, Emotional abuse, Blood, Murder, Toxic relationship, Violence, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body shaming, Gore, Trafficking, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Grief, Physical abuse, and Pregnancy