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The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson

17 reviews

undercover_booklover's review

dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Death, Domestic abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Kidnapping, Body shaming, Cursing, Dementia, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Minor: Stalking

lilylovestoread's review

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Dementia, Murder, Gaslighting, Cursing, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Toxic relationship, and Death

Moderate: Pregnancy, Alcohol, Blood, Vomit, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Minor: Bullying, Body shaming, and Sexual content

lilshelly's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Body shaming, Murder, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Violence, and Dementia

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic

phoenixlovesbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Another amazing book by Holly Jackson!! I had such a fun time reading this, and it felt like I was reading Good Girl, Bad Blood again! The Beginning was a bit slow, but the last 40% was unpredictable and had me screaming and crying for Bel.

I will be recommending this to everyone I know!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Dementia, Confinement, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Kidnapping, and Infertility

Minor: Deportation

jaimeeleigh_'s review

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

never has there ever been a Holly Jackson book that hasn’t been incredible. this one had me on the edge of tears at the end. I genuinely didn’t know how it was going to end and things did shock me, which is hard when you have read as many crime thriller books as I have

Holly Jackson will always be the queen of writing ‘I killed the people who hurt me and now I need to hide the body’

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Gaslighting, Violence, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Infertility, Toxic relationship, Fatphobia, Body shaming, and Eating disorder

Minor: Pregnancy and Slavery

wondernaut55's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

I adored this - it felt like a comeback from Five Survive, with a heavy focus on character development as well as an interesting mystery. Because of the equal focus on characters and a twisty plot, the pacing did suffer quite a bit, but I loved the characters and mystery enough to keep going. 

Strong Points: Characters, compelling setup, intrapersonal relationships, and themes

Weak Points: Not really many stakes to stick to the mystery until we got to a little past the halfway point - if we’re breaking this up into 4 acts, act 2 bogged down pretty quickly, and act 3 started strong but like a rollercoaster it dropped hard. I also felt like our villain’s motive was pretty weak and didnt unravel the mystery in the most satisfying way. However, the theme carried that on its back, and I loved the wrap-up for it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Drug use, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Kidnapping, Confinement, Torture, Cursing, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Dementia, Stalking, Death, Alcoholism, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Murder, and Physical abuse

kassidyreads's review against another edition

mysterious tense slow-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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting

Moderate: Kidnapping, Dementia, Violence, Abandonment, Murder, and Confinement

Minor: Body shaming and Stalking

thevanessa's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

4.75

Pulled me out of a reading slump! It’s been a while that I’ve stayed up reading because I couldn’t put it down. I loved it a lot, but I won’t lie when I say, the ending gave me As Good As Dead vibes, as in, things were a little too unbelievable😅 other than that, I already want to read it again now that I know how everything played out; read with a new perspective. In conclusion, I love Holly Jackson, and already can’t wait for a new book🖤

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Murder, Abandonment, Cursing, Emotional abuse, and Stalking

Moderate: Blood and Violence

Minor: Death of parent, Body shaming, Injury/Injury detail, and Alcohol

lmoran46's review

mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

Very slow in the first part the book, almost enough to make me quit early. Worth it in the long run but needed some editing/condensing. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Confinement, Death of parent, Body shaming, Stalking, and Kidnapping

kitkatkatdog's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

I loved it, what a great addition to my Holly Jackson collection. Enjoyed the twists and they just wouldn’t stop. It was a great read, I love a good mystery.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Abandonment, and Cursing

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Car accident, Murder, Death, Dementia, Gaslighting, Violence, Stalking, and Death of parent

Minor: Infertility