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hollyheartless's review against another edition
- 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
2.0
I will say I’ve loved this trilogy as a whole, I’ve loved how it’s developed and how the character development (especially in Pip) has been a crucial point over the three books and that Jackson’s writing style has adapted over the course to match this. Starting as an innocent and curious Pip slowly becoming darker and darker and picking up a hell of a lot of emotional trauma and baggage along the way.
However, I do feel like this book has left me with some questions and issues.
(Spoilers ahead)
I can’t get behind Pip actually killing Jason, I feel like it didn’t suit her character at all. I get the logic behind it and how she was tired of a government that had failed her and rightly how terrified she must have been but surely when she’d escaped there was a better solution? Even if she did go back, surely just knocking him out in some way or even breaking a bone so he couldn’t escape and then keeping him there until she could get someone would make more sense.
Then, not only did she kill someone, she got all her friends and our sweet innocent loveable Labrador boy Ravi involved in the cover up. It just felt so selfish of Pip to even risk any of them getting caught because of her. And then after all of this, she then goes and cuts off everyone who helped her anyway because it was ‘safer for them’ I cannot forgive and forget that description of Ravi’s cries. I honestly feel like this book made me dislike Pip’s character which, if that was its intention, then it worked but I can’t imagine why. Also the book itself felt unresolved, I needed like another chapter that just kind of went into how life went on beyond this point or maybe a meet up of everyone. It just felt a bit anticlimactic to end this high intensity trilogy with just a text.
Overall, I have loved this series but I do honestly feel like the plot quality did drop between books
Graphic: Blood, Murder, Violence, Death, and Kidnapping
Moderate: Sexual assault, Addiction, Cursing, Grief, Rape, and Drug abuse
Minor: Vomit
jadeilona_'s review against another edition
- 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
5.0
Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pedophilia, Death, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, and Stalking
Minor: Car accident, Racism, Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Animal death, and Animal cruelty
bones_jackson's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Addiction, Gaslighting, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Confinement, Drug use, Cursing, Physical abuse, Vomit, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Death, Kidnapping, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Stalking, and Torture
Minor: Animal death and Sexual assault
aysha_blake's review against another edition
- 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? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Cursing, Grief, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Stalking, Addiction, Medical content, Torture, Violence, Drug abuse, Drug use, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Blood, and Gore
Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and Gun violence
Minor: Infidelity
jackieyvette's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
I still enjoy Ravi, Cara, Connor, Josh, Nat, Jamie and all the rest of the characters that surround Pip, but I don't think it was enough to save this book from dropping almost a whole star grade for me.
Also, I am a person who actually really enjoys an open ending, but I actually didn't like this one. It makes sense, but yet again that doesn't mean I have to like it.
Crying score: nope.
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Gore, Physical abuse, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Drug abuse, Stalking, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Confinement, Drug use, Blood, Torture, Violence, Rape, and Sexual violence
soniajoy98's review against another edition
- 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? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Cursing, Misogyny, Stalking, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Kidnapping, Murder, Blood, and Drug use
Moderate: Grief, Gun violence, Forced institutionalization, Rape, and Panic attacks/disorders
Minor: Mental illness, Vomit, Adult/minor relationship, and Animal death
maryam_reads246's review against another edition
- 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
This one was SO GOOD !! I finished it a month ago and the finale of agggtm is even better then the 1st and 2nd book 😭😭😭🩶 it completely devoured me in and that's when I realized I was binging it !! This book is a type that'll make you stay awake until you finish this one. Holly's writing definitely improved from " A Good girls guide to murder " to this one, and if i had to say... this one did gave me goosebumps. Legit!! The plot twist is not at all predictable and it was so well written!! I loved pips character development as well as Ravi's- Romance is probably described tiny miny in this book and again Holly never disappoints 🩶🩶
Over all, I would definitely recommend this one A THOUSAND TIMES and " A good girls guide to murder " to " Good girl bad blood " to " As good as dead " they were all so well written!!
Would recommend ( read this series )
★★★★★ [ if I can, I would give it a thousand stars a thousand times. ]
( legit obsessed with this book and Holly's writing )
Graphic: Cursing, Death of parent, Drug use, Blood, Child death, Deadnaming, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Torture, Kidnapping, Murder, Stalking, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Self harm
theemeraldgirl23's review
- 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
4.5
Graphic: Violence, Murder, and Blood
Moderate: Grief, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Stalking, and Injury/Injury detail
marxnapxrez's review against another edition
- 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
4.75
The first one was so good but the second one was such a let down. But this one... omg
(there will be spoilers from here)
one thing i really liked about the second one was the trial and how pip and nat coped with it, i was so angry at it and i couldn't believe that was it but holly saved it greatly!
i feel like this book is more close to pip, her narration makes you see she is not fine, she has lost it (for great reasons) she couldn't really see what it was in front of her. I take that as a why she didn't even think about Jason, because he was envolved in every murder and she didn't even out him in the persons of interest???
from the second part of the book... it becomes even better. i thought it will maybe end with pip killing jason and thats it but this was so much better. seeing how pip (at a bad place, with so much trauma in her and even an addiction) was put into edges and she get away with it!!! how every friend of her not only supported her but understand her, her rage and why she did what she did. But my favourite part was, as a reader (being, i guess, omnipresent) you were always three steps behind pip. You couldn't now her next move, how she gonna get away with it and the best part: how Max would go down.
When i read that part... GIRLIE DEVORED. I was so angry at that piece of shit and how realistic it was he get away with it but not anymore and honestly she was so right AND SO ICONIC when she said 'you're lucky I didn't put you in the ground too' such a girl boss we love!!
And for the end, i loved every line of the bond of pip with her friends and family but overall ravi, he was willing to burn the world for her, to kill for her and she already did for him!! Loves them, loved they can end together, loved his jokes, him literally carrying a corpse for her (boyfriend goals) my ravi and pip, my team, love them forever!! <3
Also, want to say Cara character and she just joking around about his dad, is such a gen z thing and something i would do too, love her she is my girl <3
pdt: fuck you jason bell and max hastings you got what you deserved
Graphic: Gore, Sexual harassment, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Blood, Trafficking, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Rape, Eating disorder, Murder, Emotional abuse, Violence, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping
bubbly_lara's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.75
Still struggeling with what happened since she started looking into Andie Bell's murder for a school project, Pip begins to doubt her sanity when strange occurances seem to happen more frequently; an anonymous person always asking the same question: "Who will look for you, when you're the one to disappear?"... When she is sure her mind is not just playing tricks an her, she goes to the police to report the instances. However, police let her down once more, so she decides to look into it on her own. When she then finds a connection to a local serial killer and everything that's happened in Little Kilton comes full circle, Pip must keep calm, use her knowledge and wits to make it out alive.
Also, Pip and Ravi are just too cute - cannot wait for the adaoption.
Graphic: Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Cursing, Gore, Medical content, Murder, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Death, and Confinement
Moderate: Misogyny and Animal death
Minor: Rape, Drug use, and Sexual assault