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Kill Joy

Holly Jackson

3.77 AVERAGE

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: Complicated

Read September 2025
 
Going with publishing order, I read the Kill Joy prequel novella last and I think that way it worked best for me. There’s quite a few characters and all of them have a second name in here (as they’re playing characters in a murder game) and I think I would have had a really hard time remembering who’s who, had I not just read the other books. The story itself was enjoyable and it was nice seeing where it all started for Pip. 

adventurous funny mysterious tense
adventurous challenging informative mysterious tense 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
adventurous mysterious fast-paced
mysterious 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: No
lighthearted mysterious medium-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

I liked Pip's theory better...

Reading this after knowing what happened to the characters later on is a totally different experience. Easy skip tbh, I just read this for the prequel prompt.

3.5
challenging mysterious medium-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