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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

629 reviews

lavenderprince01's review

dark emotional funny 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

Omg! This book was so good!
When I wasn't reading it, I was thinking about it and discussing it with my friend who had read it
It was so tense and stressful in the best possible way

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Child death, Violence, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Vomit, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Blood, Car accident, Drug use, Racism, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Murder, and Animal death

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body shaming, Cursing, and Self harm

eleos01's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Death

Moderate: Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Rape, Xenophobia, Racism, Body shaming, Self harm, Emotional abuse, and Bullying

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Confinement

em_no_el30's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Death

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Drug abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, and Grief

Minor: Rape, Suicide, Self harm, Kidnapping, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Sexual assault, and Racism

ed_moore's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

2.75

‘A Good Girls Guide to Murder’ is the story of Pip, a college aged girl who decides to write her EPQ on how Sal Singh, the murderer of Andie Bell 5 years ago and victim of his own suicide, is actually innocent. It was a murder mystery with so many elements and threads to follow that it was hard to keep track which clues tied to which suspects, but ultimately ended in quite an ungrounded outcome.

The plot was extremely engaging and kept me listening (I audio booked it resulting in one of my main criticisms), however though engaging due to its nature as a murder mystery with so many theories and angles the writing itself wasn’t so great. Jackson’s prose was quote typical of a YA and in no manner anything remarkable, just did the job in telling the story, and her characters were also mostly one dimensional and flat, the suspects were bad and everyone else was good, they served their role in the plot and nothing more.
 

The story itself would probably warrant somewhere between 3-3.5 but it has really been dragged down by the narration of the audiobook. Though this is no fault of the writing it was a format I really didn’t enjoy, dramatised by voice actors for scenes of speech and especially added sound effects, rings and voice distortions for phone calls. I just didn’t enjoy such. The mystery was engaging but everything else was just fine.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Rape, and Child abuse

juan_jc's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Sexual content, Grief, Rape, Body shaming, Murder, Sexual assault, Bullying, Drug use, Death, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Alcohol and Adult/minor relationship

_readwithtee's review

mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Loved how fast paced it was, especially part 3. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Animal death, Suicide, Murder, and Drug abuse

sjepp's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

This book is bussin. Took me a minute to get into it. I haven’t been on a fiction kick in a hot minute, but I can honest to goodness tell you I was hooked after page 67. When Pip shares her four theories of the murder, I knew I’d finish the book before the day was over

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Bullying, Drug use, Grief, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, and Murder

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Violence, Sexual assault, Self harm, Rape, Medical trauma, Bullying, Body shaming, Blood, and Adult/minor relationship

sharlapeggy's review against another edition

mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

I liked it. A good feel to the book and I enjoyed the twists and turns as you accuse different people and you try to work it out. I wasn’t amazingly keen on the ending - I feel like it was a bit of a let down but I did enjoy it. Not sure I’d pick up book 2 hence why not 5 stars. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Toxic friendship, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Child death, Confinement, Pedophilia, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Death, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, and Murder

lunamagicath's review against another edition

adventurous funny inspiring 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Stalking, Drug abuse, and Murder

kimduindam's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

5.0

Review of the UK Edition of this book. 
Not usually the type of books I like to read so that's why I went with the audiobook but I loved any moment of it! The audiobook was also really good! I loved this book so much and I cried when

Barney :c

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Vomit, Violence, Drug use, Murder, and Kidnapping

Minor: Rape, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Suicide