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As Good As Dead

Holly Jackson

4.12 AVERAGE

st3008's review

3.5

Rating would be higher if Pip would have just

called the police after the what happened with Jason

, everything after that point felt like a series of stupid decisions that I don't believe were in line with Pip's character... I was fully on board with her decision to

use the hammer on him, but from there she should have called the police and told them about DT... I'm glad the book itself acknowledged that her decision would have just left Billy to rot in prison for a crime he didn't commit, but, from a storytelling perspective, I honestly think he shouldn't have ended up being cleared. If Pip conceals her involvement in Jason's death, she should have to live with the consequence of removing an innocent man's last hope of freedom

the whole third act felt like banging my head against a brick wall 🙄 but maybe that's just me 🤷‍♀️

itsy_bitsy_nitsyyy's review against another edition

0.5

Tf was ts

bumbilingbee's review against another edition

4.5

Holy shit

luvclae's review against another edition

5.0

Holy shit.

kromanowski's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous challenging dark 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: Yes

liv_for_reading's review against another edition

5.0

Although many books make me really sad and hurt me, it’s RARE that a book actually scares me to the point of nightmares and makes me sob okay? This book-I honestly have no words. When people warned me this book was crazy, I didn’t realize to what extent they meant.

Honestly, my heat goes out to Pip. She’s been through SO many traumatic things through this series, and by the end of this I was so glad there was some closure for her. When you think about it, everything that happened in this series could happen irl, and that just makes me thing about how I could never handle this. I feel like the author did an amazing job at making us connect to both Pip and Ravi.

BUT THE END. The way I sobbed in the last chapter and even harder at the very last page of the “epilogue” I actually cannot. My eyes were so dry from crying so hard after that.

The only thing I would change about this last book is that although it was technically necessary for the plot and everything, I wish that when Pip *spoiler that everyone that has read the book knows about* that it wasn’t so descriptive and stuff because it was REALLY descriptive and I was literally having nightmares that that would happen to me and couldn’t sleep that night because I was scared *spoiler* was gonna come *spoiler* to me. Like OBVIOUSLY it’s in no way the authors job to make sure my anxiety doesn’t act up, but I just felt like it was a lot. I honestly don’t even know how the author wrote it. I watch a lot of true crime shows, but this was something else. Each book got darker and darker as the series went on.

redshoes595's review against another edition

1.0

I loved the first book in this series but this second installment took Pip down a road of drug abuse and paranoia and crazy rash decisions. Is that really the only way anyone would handle a traumatic experience? Because if you read YA books nowadays that is the only logical path forward. And as I'm writing this I realized I skipped a whole book in this series! I still hold to my star rating based on the crappy trajectory of Pip and her mental health coping skills. Maybe if I read the 2nd book, this one would make more sense. I don't think I'm going to read it though. I'm tired of this genre.