Review by marianabelher - A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

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marianabelher 's review for:

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

4.0

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

This book was a lot of fun. I definitely didn’t see the reveals coming, and I was at the edge of my sit for a lot of it. I am however very confused as to why the US edition is so different to the UK one. I tried to read my physical copy alongside the audiobook, only to find out my US copy was missing full lines that the UK audiobook had. I can (somewhat) understand changing a few names and words, but removing full sentences? These changes might not affect the plot, but they do make the writing seem dry and the characters flat. I can’t understand why they would do this. Where they trying to make the book shorter so that it seemed more approachable? Was the editor to lazy to adapt what they saw as unnecessary lines? I don’t get it and I wish they would stop. That’s my rant, thanks for reading.

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