Reviews with content warning for Drug use - As Good As Dead

I recommend this book if you like:
-the first 2 books (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder and Good Girl, Bad Blood)
-an amazing, intricate, well thought out thriller
-YA mystery

This book plot was insanely good! I cannot recommend enough! I actually think this third installment of the trilogy is the best out of the three and they were all fantastic. This has easily made my favourites list.

Pip has a stalker, a potential serial killer. But he's locked up in prison, right? So is she imagining things? Looking for clues that aren't there? Pip isn't the same girl she once was, before the previous two books. She's seen things, heard things, been through events that are tough to forget, impossible to leave in the past.

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Pip received messages, who will look for you when you disappear? Pip wasn't sure at first but comes to an answer during the book; her boyfriend Ravi, her family and friends.

She gets abducted by the Duct Tape (DT) Killer. She goes through a horrific experience of being tied up and left in a work garage. Pip manages to escape, climb shelving, break a window and get to the forest before Jason Bell returns to kill her.

Pip makes a choice, she returns to the garage to finish him off, takes a hammer to his head nine times; overkill. But now she's the murderer.

Here comes the mind blowing, detailed plan on how to get away with murder. Slow down rigour mortis, delay the time of death and then get an airtight alibi. All which she achieves with the help of her boyfriend and friends. She uses a cars air con then heater to artificially control the effects of death on the body.

It goes one step further. Implicate and set up Max Hastings, the local drug dealer and rapist. Plant evidence at the scene to make him go down.

It all nearly unravelled due to a stray pair of headphones found in Jason Bell's bedroom. A trophy he had stored to remember his 6th victim to be. But thankfully Ravi stepped in with an explanation which was believed.

Pip moved away from home and went to uni and had to cut contact from all her friends and Ravi. In case the trial didn't go the way they planned, she needed to ensure the ones she loved didn't get into trouble.

After a long wait, the trial ended and Max was found guilty. Ravi immediately messaged Pip. That's where the story ended.

Pip thought right and wrong was so explicit. Black or white. She discovered first hand that there are many shades of grey and that sometimes the truth should stay hidden.

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clairehreads22's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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This trilogy is over! Omg wow!
This book still has me shook like what did I just read? Did I read it right?! Is this really the end?!

1) Full circle moment when Jason admits he is the DT killer to Pip after stalking her. The stalking was so so creepy and I’m still mad that Detective Hawkins did not believe her about it. Dead pigeons and chalk drawings are definitely creepy, sir. Jason Bell also killed Barney :-( I’m glad Pip got closure about who killed Barney, but me sad :-(

2) Luke ran Pip off the road. She didn’t even question it when he said sorry about that. Like wtf?! Bro no :/

3) Pip killed Jason and framed Max. She had such an in-depth plan and well it did pay off.

4) Ravi is too sweet for Fairview. Sal was too.

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dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

so many twists and turns would have never ever expected any of these things to happened - love the full circle from the beginning of the series to the end.

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teaskate's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional 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

4.25

You know the trilogy was good when the last one was the best.This book was heavy and how Pip says it so perfect completely in the grey zone.I really liked the characters in this book.Pip is such a complex character and I think that makes the trilogy so good.How everything was perfectly connected,came back right were it all started and how everything fits with the other books is just something I was looking for,also the plot twists through out the trilogy were always unexpected ,at least for me.What I already really liked in the other books were the interview parts,pictures etc.Which were in this one also really interesting.

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