Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Five Survive by Holly Jackson

424 reviews

gabi_715's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Blood

Moderate: Murder

dubious_little_creature's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

entamewitchlulu's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Medical content and Toxic friendship

literarymary95's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.0

The story was decent. It wasn't as good as Holly Jackson's first book (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder). I figured out a good bit of the mystery bit of the story, but it still kept me reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Death, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism, Infidelity, and Alcohol

raye_charlie's review against another edition

4.75

i hated oliver so fucking much 

i was happy he died ngl just cos he was so annoying

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Violence, Vomit, and Toxic friendship

gerardthefrog420's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

2.75

Not as good as her other books. Personally I didn’t like the main character and tbh all of them were super fucking annoying. Mystery premise itself was interesting and I was def freaked out at times.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Stalking, and Murder

bealittlebrave's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Death of parent, and Murder

sherlene_06's review against another edition

challenging dark 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? It's complicated

5.0

Holly Jackson never disappoints. She ate this one. I was literally at the edge of my seat with this book, reading it every single moment I had to spare. I even stayed up till sunrise when the book started getting intense. I thought the book was predictable; my prediction being: Red had a secret, but oh this book was an onion. So many layers. 

And the ending? Goodness. It hurt. Also I hate Oliver (she wrote his arc so well, I actually despise him)

The writing was beautiful, and the way Red's thoughts were incoherent, and haphazard, it was done so realistically. Like Jackson transcripted the thoughts of a real person. It was hard to get into the book at first, but it began picking up the pace quicker than I had the will to put it down. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

cande_luvisotti's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

rileydobereading's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Death of parent