Reviews tagging 'Gore'

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

47 reviews

ellarae0111's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Murder, Outing, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

bella_t_16's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring 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, Drug use, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Rape, and Vomit

Minor: Animal death

amusicals's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

Minor: Gore, Pedophilia, and Suicide

murren_wattxx's review against another edition

adventurous funny informative mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Rape, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

katerinamckenna's review against another edition

mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

0.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

espookita's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

Pretty Little Liars meets Serial in this attention-gripping thriller. I am a huge fan of murder mysteries and I could not put this down. I’m much less a fan of true crime, and I do believe this does a great job to exemplify exactly why some issue exist with true crime and what problems arise when you open that can of worms you probably weren’t bargaining for when impersonating an investigative journalist or detective. That being said, I loved this book. I had a ball reading it. I was trying to figure out the killer, looking this way, that way, and I thought it was very creative. The apprehension had me at the edge of my seat with each chapter. If you’re a fan of a good mystery that is not too heavy on the gore, this is the one for you. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Sexual assault, Blood, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Rape and Toxic friendship

Minor: Self harm and Car accident

molly_love's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

I cried, laughed, smiled and scowled all at the same book and then went straight onto the next book after it, it was just that good. I had heard many amazing things about this book, but had never picked it, not thinking I would enjoy it as I don't normally read murder mystery and thrillers. But boy was I wrong this was definitely one of my favorite books this year maybe even to this day. Completely loved this book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Toxic relationship, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and Alcohol

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Rape, Vomit, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

ankiaisreading's review against another edition

mysterious medium-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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Car accident, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Vomit

joey1914's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Death, Drug use, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Vomit, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, and Alcohol

adorotich's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

Kept you on your toes the whole time. The relationships between all of the characters were fascinating. Big slay!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Rape