ebonwilde 's review for:

Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson

4.0

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this broke my heart. watching pippa learn that justice isn't always true, watching her become colder and less trusting, watching her push against the system only to believe in the end that nothing she did mattered, and watching her slowly become the character she will be in as good as dead was brutal, but in the most beautiful of ways. the ending, especially, was agonizing, with the gun being eternalized in pip's mind forever. a heart-rending, yet vicious depiction of trauma. it's rare that a second book in a series ends up better than the first, but holly jackson delivered here.