Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

706 reviews

xxenjoy's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

Love love loved this book! I first heard about it on tiktok and knew immediately the story was going to grip me - and it did. If it wasn't for sleep, I would have read the entire thing in one sitting. Cannot wait for the next! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Suicide, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, and Sexual assault

Minor: Animal death, Vomit, and Kidnapping

sophieprime's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful 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? N/A

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Suicide

kayla_hehe's review against another edition

emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.25

I wouldn’t necessarily suggest this book to anyone, I wouldn’t read it again, but I didn’t totally hate it. The whole premise was so unrealistic, and I don’t know a single public high school in America that would have a capstone project to graduate. There were moments where I was like oooh ok I like where this is going but the author would wrap that storyline up in the next chapter and move on from it entirely. Just overall felt forced and unrealistic. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Kidnapping, Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, and Animal death

Minor: Sexual assault, Bullying, Car accident, Sexual violence, Body shaming, Suicide, and Dementia

kyriannaj's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol and Animal death

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Toxic friendship, Violence, Racial slurs, Child abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Car accident, Blood, Cursing, Death, Dementia, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Racism, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Rape, and Murder

Minor: Addiction and Death of parent

snf1996's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious slow-paced

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

2.0

Could not get into the book slow read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Drug use, Murder, Rape, and Violence

laurenfro22's review against another edition

2.75

Notes:
- white savior up the wazoo. Are we not going to talk about racial profiling? No intersectional understanding of issues? No?
- slapstick diversity
- ring? Fancy? (Edit: my wife told me the author is from the UK which explains SO MUCH ffs)
- mc is an idiot masquerading as a Ivy League bound high schooler
- what high schooler is doing a CAPSTONE?
- what high schooler has time to do all the bananas sh*t unquestioned?
- HOW did the MC not end up dead with the batsh*t decisions to confront suspects ALONE
- Ethics is calling and they’d like to speak to the MC
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loses a whole star for the dog dying. Absolutely unnecessary

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so many things that needed an adult or authority intervention. Date r*pe? Drugs? Teachers getting involved with students? I mean are you serious? I know I’m old but I’m not THAT old

TL;DR: it was a quick, formulaic book with poor character development, questionable motives, and a heaping scoop of racial insensitivity. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting

Moderate: Murder, Suicide, Racism, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Addiction, Alcohol, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Animal death, and Bullying

Minor: Death of parent and Fatphobia

chhwood's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-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

3.25

This was a good book and an interesting read, I think I would’ve liked this more in high school. It covers some heavy topics that I felt that it just glossed over and I didn’t love that. It also felt very PLL esq. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Racism, Self harm, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Drug use, Murder, Death, Kidnapping, Rape, Violence, Car accident, Sexual assault, and Alcohol

priscillarobock's review against another edition

challenging hopeful inspiring 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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Adult/minor relationship, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Toxic friendship, Drug use, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Rape, Alcohol, Blood, Kidnapping, Bullying, Death, Suicide attempt, Torture, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, and Drug abuse

mthornburg13's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Suicide, Drug use, and Murder

Minor: Sexual assault

jennaweston's review against another edition

mysterious 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? N/A

3.75

I originally thought this was going to be a fun-loving tween mystery novel, but it ended up being a lot more intense, but also very interesting. I think this book got lost in the weeds at moments with trying to push you off the track of who the killer is, but overall good book.

What I Liked 

• It was a quick read.
• Liked the different format of it. Made the book go by quickly.
• the plot twist was interesting at the end…saw some of it coming, but not really!
• Liked the duo of Pip and Ravi.

What I didn’t like

• though i liked the plot twist, i wasn’t super sold on Becca as the killer. It felt a little anti-climatic to be totally honest.
• No need to kill the dog…just sad for sad’s sake 
  • also comparing it to losing Sal…a little bit of a yikes there

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder, Suicide, Vomit, Animal death, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Grief, Murder, Sexual assault, and Adult/minor relationship