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Meurtre mode d'emploi by Holly Jackson

80 reviews

pippamillerxoxo_'s review against another edition

dark funny hopeful lighthearted 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Murder, Racism, Rape, Vomit, Car accident, Suicide, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child death, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, and Sexual violence

mceleste22's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad 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

5.0

Welcome to a ramble of thoughts about the book! ♕I’ll try to make it make sense:) ♕

First of all, if you’re deciding whether to read it or not, here’s a few things that might help you decide: 

• Reliable narrator.
• Mystery gets solved in ONE book (at least it does resolve all the main parts and details given, and from the synopsis of the next it sounds unrelated).
• Great secondary characters (good, bad and morally grey).
• Not too graphic until the actual evidence reveals.
• Many clues.
• Mild romance subplot.
• Actually appropriate for the YA genre.

Spoilers Ahead!

Few things that called my attention:

• The protagonist was solving the case of a murdered mean girl
• The chapters that were novel-like had quite a few lyrical descriptions which I loved.
• The everyday life wasn’t left behind in the storytelling.
• Also, the fact that it changed between narrative prose and log entries made it go by so fast, plus not redundant ;)

Moreover:

~ It was weird that the author was trying to put a romance in there while we were trying to solve a murder-mystery. But I do love Ravi and Pip together, they feel balanced, even with the slight age difference. AND when the author poses Ravi as smart he actually pushes through with it when he gets what’s actually going on with Pip. (When she was going to stop and he put 2-and-2 together and knew what’s going on I was quite glad, it was a “I knew you could do it!” moment).

~ I do hope that as children Pip and Josh gave Barney purple hair.

~ Does Pip get amnesia after all of it and Ravi has to remind her of Becca’s confession?

 

~ Starving Cara with Spanish words sprinkled in her sentences was completely necessary to my reading experience. Thank you. *not sarcasm*

~ When the application essay for Columbia came up and she actually wrote it, I had really hoped the whole essay would be the end of the book and the title would be “A good girl’s guide to murder”. Imagine that application! (Plus, she could've added the "willing to do anything for an assignment", though I don't know if that would appeal to an admissions officer (?))

 

Weird details:

~ Almost turned into a plot-hole but was saved last minute: how was Pip coming up with such wild theories when her family is the kind of family that hides their spare key under the doormat??!? Like?!?? Make it make sense. But then, there’s the tiniest mention of her watching crime documentaries and I was “Okay, I guess that’s fair.” But like, tell your family to hide their spare key elsewhere, please.

 

~ Gotta say, it was curious how Pip put Naomi and Mr. Elliot on the list and actually went through with them as suspects and then decided to tell Becca to escape.

 

~ The physical description of Andie matched the author’s photo, idk if it was intentional but it did weird me out everytime the book flipped open on it.

~ Totally unrelated to the story: the book came with two dust jackets, exactly the same (I think? I should probably check). It was like Barnes and Nobles knew I would need space for a murder board if I had actually pushed throught with it, still I don’t think I would’ve guessed it. 

As a closing/overall thoughts:

I did quite enjoy the book, even if it wasn't totally my sort of book. It was definitely that change in genre I was hoping for when I bought it. Not much was too mindblowing, when the reveals came, I was like “That makes total sense!” and I did remember all the details that led to it which I was proud about. It was pretty straight-forward and it did guide through the whole plot.

 On another note, I’m glad the second book is about a new mystery, and I really hope it doesn’t relate to this one so that if I read it time after I will still be able to enjoy it without remembering everything that happened in the first book. It’s interesting for a series for the plot to not be totally connected, but it does have a settled main character to guide you through the plot details.

I feel like it would be cool if in the second or third book the person in question was still alive and found alive, just for a change.

~ Celeste

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Murder, Rape, Body shaming, Bullying, Car accident, Child abuse, Confinement, Death of parent, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Grief, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, and Vomit

jupiter_56's review against another edition

adventurous 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

5.0

ç’est tres amusant !  zis waz so tearjerking. Absolutely fantastique… C’était un masterpiece. Ravi and Pip were made for my home country! ( ze ville of love) 
Aldough… it was nasty, crusty, dusty, rusty and etc ;) 

- french critique 
Madame Delecoire Monet
 (oui)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic friendship, War, Trafficking, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Police brutality, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Torture, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, Sexual harassment, and Sexual content

Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Alcohol, Colonisation, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Deportation, Drug use, Abandonment, Abortion, and Addiction

Minor: Genocide

lucia5678's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Fatphobia, Kidnapping, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Car accident, Death, Drug use, Gaslighting, Grief, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Suicide attempt, Rape, and Racism

Moderate: Alcohol and Alcoholism

jenndonald's review against another edition

emotional 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Death, Drug use, and Murder

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Blood, Toxic friendship, Animal death, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, and Pedophilia

Minor: Domestic abuse, Cancer, Self harm, Body shaming, Death of parent, and Suicidal thoughts

annawlsnn's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Grief, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Rape, Vomit, Stalking, Suicide, Body shaming, Child death, Murder, Bullying, and Violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Self harm, Mental illness, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Sexual violence, Racism, Kidnapping, Eating disorder, Drug use, Death of parent, Confinement, and Car accident

Minor: Cancer, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Dementia, Cursing, Fatphobia, and Terminal illness

ldipkin's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious 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? No

4.5

It was just a fun read all around, would definitely check out the others in the series. Got me out of a reading block nicely.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Rape, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Bullying, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Body shaming, Animal death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Murder, Stalking, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, and Vomit

Minor: Self harm, Grief, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts

khloereads86's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

This was SO good! Although I figured out loosely the whodunnit side fairly early, I still had a great time seeing it all come together and figuring out the missing pieces. I love books like this for making you think about how it happened, but also about why the characters did what they did. I loved Pip and Ravi, they were so sweet together (even if we don’t really get to see them together). The format with the production logs sometimes made me lose interest a little because I wanted to keep reading the story part, but they were still interesting to see how Pip was piecing things together and gave vital information. I really loved this book and want more 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Murder, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Racism, Kidnapping, Emotional abuse, Confinement, Stalking, Rape, Animal death, and Car accident

Minor: Cursing, Body shaming, Cancer, Self harm, Violence, and Fatphobia

nnread's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Drug use

Minor: Animal death

abi_ineedtoreadmore's review against another edition

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

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Sexism, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Car accident, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Rape, Self harm, Cultural appropriation, Dementia, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Violence, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Abortion, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Racism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, and Murder