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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

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jasperr's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense 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? Yes

3.25

I’ll start with the good. First of all, kisses to Holly Jackson for her first book being pretty damn good. The ending was satisfying for the most part. The hints towards the next course of action were well written (to the point where i could guess what conclusion we will be coming to next). As a character, Pip is very distinct. She has a clear voice in this story which is really good seeing as she is the protagonist. At some instances though, it seemed like her logic was inconsistent with what “she knows” thus far. It read as if her new leads and conclusions were just tools to progress the plot with no deeper connection to the actual story. Also, some characters felt like unnecessary additions (most of all, Josh). And the scenes where we get to see the family dynamics of Pip’s family were not very useful. From her character alone and the instances where they intervene subtly during scenes that do not center around them, we can understand the dynamics of her family and get the hint about them being a pretty functional family. However, other families’ dynamics would have been a lot more interesting (the Bells which does appear briefly, the Singhs who are dealing with the loss of their “alleged murderer” son). Also the conversations between the teenagers felt very scripted and unnatural at times. I get that Pip is this supernerd but regardless she is a person. I got second-hand embarrassment from reading some of that dialogue. Another thing, that spur of the moment relationship was so frustrating: would’ve rather taken a sprinkle of the rohypnol pills in my tea than a sprinkle of the romance in my murder mystery book. It was way too quick and out of nowhere and unnecessary. There are a lot of little things like that that I wish were cut out. Regardless, there were memorable moments in this book and Ravi easily became one of my favorite characters from the get-go. I really appreciated the different methods Pip would go about solving this case; it was really successful in creating interest while basically doing the same thing: chasing a lead. The book starts off so strongly but it drags on for a while. It’s a slower pace than I expected. Thanks for reading this. I’m pouring my thoughts out here, waiting for my friends to finish reading this. I might add something later when I figure out the spoiler warning thing though.

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ashley_dreaming's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.75

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chhwood's review against another edition

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adventurous dark 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

3.25

This was a good book and an interesting read, I think I would’ve liked this more in high school. It covers some heavy topics that I felt that it just glossed over and I didn’t love that. It also felt very PLL esq.

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priscillarobock's review against another edition

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challenging hopeful inspiring 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? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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jloves2read's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

uhm holy fucking shit, the plot thickening, the back and forth, the twists and turns, just read the book you’ll love it hands down

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freyajhugroo's review against another edition

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dark emotional funny mysterious sad fast-paced

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

4.25

I really enjoyed this! It's a great murder mystery that has really compassion surrounding the crimes that take place in it and excellent main characters working on the case. I like the respect this novel has for victims of crimes as it feels missing all too often (especially in actual true crime content).
Jackson should give herself a gold star for being one of the few booktok recs I actually loved and ordered the sequel to :).

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There are serious themes throughout so good idea to look these up before reading

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Some parts felt very cliche e.g the personal life of the investigator suffering because they're too involved in the case and the dead person not being the angel they were supposed to be.
This doesn't take away from the quality of the story but it does feel like I've read these two tropes a million times.

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