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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

138 reviews

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This was a fast-paced young-adult mystery/thriller.  Seeing how they changed it from a book set in England to one here in the states was amusing.  

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dark funny mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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: Complicated

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a poor version of the game life is strange (man, I will play it again sometime)

obs to future me, when deciding to read the rest of the series 

- until 85%, it was amazing, so intertainig and catching 

- since the beginnin I knew what was up with ravi and it was bad

- it didn't sumarize all the gossip properly at the end, which makes me mad, that's an ick 

- I didn't like the final reveal, the book build up to something better, it had no flavor (and even sense?) to me

- if the main caracther had a song it would be 🎶dumb ways to die🎶

- the book has questionable morals (lying to keep personal interests, promoting no respect to law...)


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adventurous funny mysterious tense 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

Really great mystery and nice that it was not a predictable end. In the beginning a little hard to keep up with all the characters. In the ebook version the different fonts were not the best...

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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: Complicated

This book is amazing the plot just never sits still and the characters are so believable and unique and I just loved it , however for some people this may be very triggering but if you do decide to read it I’m sure you’ll enjoy the story xx 

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective 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: No

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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mysterious reflective tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Two YA Thrillers in a row?! Who is she?! 

This was my book club pick this month and I wasn't sure what to expect as this is normally not my genre but I was very into this book. With quick chapters and an easy-to-read flow between regular chapters & interview-style paragraphs made things move quickly. 

Pip & Ravi were great characters to root for and I like that the book kept me guessing until the very end. I got a little nervous once I found out that this was a series that we might not get to know all the answers by the end of the book. A lot of morally gray characters and interesting twists and turns but nothing too gory or intense. 

I really enjoyed this read and might think of trying a few more YA thrillers. Maybe this is my sweet spot. 

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