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Meurtre mode d'emploi by Holly Jackson

202 reviews

caseythereader's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional funny 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? Yes

4.0

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scottyreadsstuff's review against another edition

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adventurous dark funny 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

4.5

Wow I did not expect to be so invested in this story & series!!! I saw one of the major twists coming, but that didn’t impede my enjoyment of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder. I don’t know if I’ll ever reread the first book, but I definitely want to continue on with the rest of the trilogy!! 😁

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ellvee3838's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

It was a really good book. I really enjoyed it. As a YA reader I wasn’t expecting some of the twists to it. I did start to guess the ending. <Spoiler> When Pip found it was Mr. Ward. However it kept me guessing. I recommend

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tallulahreads_stuff's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

If you’re thinking about buying or reading this book, do it now!!!!! I regret not buying this book earlier!

The story is of Pippa Fitz-Amobi, she’s trying to solve the case of who murdered Andie Bell. Everyone in Little Kilton says it’s Sal Singh, but Pip knows that Sal wasn’t the type to do that, and she knows that it couldn’t have been him.

I first heard of this book a while back on booktok, i figured the book was probably alright and nothing special, since booktok is also very fond of Colleen Hoover (whos books i very much dislike). But just 1 chapter into the book, and I knew I was wrong!

The book has amazing characters, you can see their unique personalities throughout the book
The story is well written and very captivating, making you feel like you’re actually in little Kilton and witnessing everything that’s happening

The thing I loved most about this book was how clever the story was. It was easy to follow, yet so many characters, details, and plot twists. You could never tell who was the murderer, or even who was good or bad. I had a suspicion of everyone while reading!!

Overall, the book is very much worth your time and money. You will not regret it.

Stop reading if you don’t want to be spoiled!

I found Pio and Ravi’s relationship so cute

It was so odd how Elliot was the one who killed Sal this whole time… i never really suspected him. I love books were you can’t guess the ending

Those texts and threats from Becca were so terrible… i was literally so mortified

Barneys death was hands down the worst part of the book, i know damn well that Becca did that ON PURPOSE

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profilernewt07's review against another edition

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dark hopeful 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

5.0

rereading it for the new series, and realizing why I fell in love with the trilogy in the first place. Holly Jackson wrote these characters perfectly, and left me shocked with the plot twist.

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faeriefox's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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

2.0

I started this book with high hopes. I had heard very good things about it, but was fairly disappointed. It wasn't all bad, but I had enough issues with it that it lowered my rating significantly.

Firstly, the writing style. As a book aimed toward the YA audience, the prose was far too immature, especially for the dark and possibly triggering themes with, such as SH, suicide, and rape. It felt like the book did not take truly seriously and tried to make light of these things. This was my biggest issue, and brought down my rating the most.

No matter how much I enjoyed the plot, the aforementioned is a huge problem and I hate that anyone could be exposed to that without advance notice. The content warnings on StoryGraph are not thorough enough, and I feel like most of these people who read the book must not have these types of triggers. There is a detailed explanation of how a suicide was allegedly committed, many mentions of rape, an adult-minor relationship, and more.

Also because of this writing style, dialogue felt very forced and unbelievable, and because of this these 17+ year old characters acted and sounded like they were no older than ten. It was really difficult to really fall into the story because of this. The characters were all also very flat and had little to no development throughout the story.

I also felt that most of the solve kind of came out of nowhere, and that there were too many suspects at time during the story; I didn't even really try to figure out what happened because I was quite confused.

All of that being said, there were some good points. The premise was overall interesting, and while I was too confused to actually figure out what happened, I was interested enough to finish the book and hear the solve, especially as I got further in and more invested. The writing quality also improved slightly towards the end.

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