A review by swimmer120x
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

3.75

The book overall was good. I had two pet peeves in the book. The first is that the narrator would switch between first and third person point of view, but use the same voice that she did when narrating for Pip in the first-person POV. I feel like if the narrator was going to use a third-person POV to explain a scene, it should have been a different voice from the rest of the characters, including Pip. Each of the characters had their own voices (10+), but yet the third-person POV had to be the same voice as Pip’s. It would have been more enjoyable had the tone been different. The second pet-peeve is that
Becca tried to handle all of the blackmail on her own
Things could have taken a different turn had a teenager not thought that she could have handled everything on her own. Granted, she did a great job solving a murder. But with some things, you’re still a teen; involve your parents.

The book was nearly ruined for me because the narrator and main character, Pip, have the same voice, tone, and pitch in the audiobook, which is particularly terrible, when Pip is mentioned in the third-person POV.
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