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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

380 reviews

cutie_pie_queen23's review

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Sexual assault, Rape, Drug use, and Alcohol

Minor: Vomit

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

isaile's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Murder, Emotional abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Sexual assault, Bullying, Sexism, and Child death

Minor: Grief, Alcohol, Animal death, Body shaming, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Stalking, Violence, Dementia, Racism, and Kidnapping

sharg's review

adventurous funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

This book was definitely one of my favourites from the series. It definitely gets more interesting as the books progress so don’t stop reading!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Rape, Alcohol, Blood, Death, Sexual harassment, and Murder

jen_reads23's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Addiction, Vomit, Rape, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Suicide, Sexual violence, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Car accident, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Self harm

fanboyriot's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? No

4.0

♡ Cold Case 

♡ Small Clues

♡ Murder Board

The plot was a bit cliché but entertaining enough.  It is unfortunate that the US edition had so much edited out, there are just moments that feel skipped over or some parts that seem missing general.  But in the end it was a good story.

I loved the formatting of this book, all the extra details like the schedules, text messages, were all formatted nicely.  It was an entertaining to read, it had twists and turns, an unlikely friendship, a killer hiding in plain sight, and a school project that turned into solving a murder.

Spice Level: n/a

POV: Third Person

Release Date: 05, January 2021

Rep: BIPOC (Main Character and Side Characters), Lesbian (Side Character)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Grief, Death, Violence, Murder, Gaslighting, and Racism

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Body shaming, Blood, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Vomit, Child death, Car accident, Cursing, Kidnapping, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Minor: Death of parent, Sexual assault, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Fatphobia, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic friendship, Dementia, Suicide, and Rape

marialeon_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Murder, Pedophilia, Drug use, Alcohol, and Animal death

hellokatya's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.5

this was a very good read - super easy to get through, and felt like a palette cleanser. 
only complaint is it felt a bit too YA for the mature topics that were in it, hence the lower rating, but overall i thoroughly enjoyed it and the ending was really nice! 
highly recommend

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, and Death of parent

Moderate: Dementia, Drug abuse, Rape, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Car accident, and Sexual assault

Minor: Blood and Body shaming

pil4r's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

¿Cómo volver a la ficción después de una tanda de lecturas ensayisticas? ¿Un bestseller? ¿Un buen y jugoso thriller? ¿Un amigable libro juvenil?
Todas son correctas. Y todas son categorías en las que A Good Girl's Guide to Murder entra.
Hace un tiempo que perdí la costumbre y probablemente el interés por leer literatura juvenil. Sinceramente, no sé bien que me llevó a leer este libro. Será que una nunca se puede negar al confort de un buen thriller. Menos mal.
Este libro es muy divertido. Junto a Pippa, nuestra dulce, joven y super nerd protagonista, enloquecemos con los giros que toma su investigación en relación a un crimen que tuvo lugar hace cinco años atrás. Las vueltas que da la trama así como la pasión de nuestra protagonista por hacer justicia construyen en quien lee una intriga auténtica. Esta en consonancia con la escritura directa y cero rebuscada de Jackson hacen que sea complicado frenar la lectura.
Por otro lado, no puedo dejar de advertir que la voz resulta bastante infantil y cursi y, por momentos, hasta medio simplista y moralina -principalmente en relación al consumo de sustancias-. Además, es difícil dejar de notar que muchas instancias de investigación se desarrollan de forma completamente inverosímil. Pero bueno chicxs, ¡es literatura juvenil! ¡¡entretenida!! ¡¡y con mini elaboraciones interesantes/concienzudas en relación al género y la raza!! Y eso ya es un montón.
Recomiendo ampliamente para público juvenil y no juvenil (teniendo en cuenta las advertencias previas) que disfrute de ficciones de suspenso, que necesite leer algo livianito, no pensar en su contexto sociopolítico de terror y/o salir de un reading slump. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Kidnapping, and Murder

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

Minor: Alcohol

kmcaloney's review

adventurous dark 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Murder, Animal death, Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, Rape, and Sexual assault