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A review by selbs2004
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
3.0
This book was definitely a ride ( negatively)
Don't get me wrong, I liked the ending. It definitely redeemed the book in a lot of ways, but overall there were so much parts where I put down the book and had to silently scream into the abyss because of the amount of time this book had the charcater whom we are supposed to presume has intelligent do stupid, irrational things without thinking it through at all. Or things just played out too conveniently or suspended disbelief to such an extent so many times it would send me into a fit of laughter.
Gosh, and don't get me started on the reason we are giving for why she cares so deeply about proving his innocence. Like, really? He helped Pip with bullies when she was like eight, and now she is the only one in town who believes he was not guilty (besides Ravi), and she will do anything to prove it????
I wished the book had dived more into the genuine racism that led to blatant ignorance surrounding this case, but it was barely discussed. Then, the amount of time she keeps forgetting that Ravi can not do the same stunts as her because of his race is just appalling to me. I assume the author wanted to portray to her as the nice white girl that truly doesn't see race, but it annoyed me so much, especially considering she has a black step father certainly racism is something she would understand and be able to identify more.
Plus, do not get me started on the fact that one of the MAIN RULES in the book was that she couldn't talk to any of the families involved during her research project and then she immediately did on the next page. What was the point of showing us that if it was something she was going to completely ignore?
And then there was Ravi and Pips' relationship, which I didn't like it at all. The romantic part of it felt extremely forced most of the time and I wish she kept it has friendship especially considering he is 20 and she is still 17 in her senior year of high school, which may not sound weird to some, but to me it was uncomfortable. Plus, the added fact that at most times she sounded incredibly young and it overall felt so odd, I truly think there was no reason for any romantic relationship because it wasn't integrated very well.
As I said in the beginning, though, I did enjoy the ending despite the bumpy road it took to get there, and the constant pushing of reality.
Don't get me wrong, I liked the ending. It definitely redeemed the book in a lot of ways, but overall there were so much parts where I put down the book and had to silently scream into the abyss because of the amount of time this book had the charcater whom we are supposed to presume has intelligent do stupid, irrational things without thinking it through at all. Or things just played out too conveniently or suspended disbelief to such an extent so many times it would send me into a fit of laughter.
Gosh, and don't get me started on the reason we are giving for why she cares so deeply about proving his innocence. Like, really? He helped Pip with bullies when she was like eight, and now she is the only one in town who believes he was not guilty (besides Ravi), and she will do anything to prove it????
I wished the book had dived more into the genuine racism that led to blatant ignorance surrounding this case, but it was barely discussed. Then, the amount of time she keeps forgetting that Ravi can not do the same stunts as her because of his race is just appalling to me. I assume the author wanted to portray to her as the nice white girl that truly doesn't see race, but it annoyed me so much, especially considering she has a black step father certainly racism is something she would understand and be able to identify more.
Plus, do not get me started on the fact that one of the MAIN RULES in the book was that she couldn't talk to any of the families involved during her research project and then she immediately did on the next page. What was the point of showing us that if it was something she was going to completely ignore?
And then there was Ravi and Pips' relationship, which I didn't like it at all. The romantic part of it felt extremely forced most of the time and I wish she kept it has friendship especially considering he is 20 and she is still 17 in her senior year of high school, which may not sound weird to some, but to me it was uncomfortable. Plus, the added fact that at most times she sounded incredibly young and it overall felt so odd, I truly think there was no reason for any romantic relationship because it wasn't integrated very well.
As I said in the beginning, though, I did enjoy the ending despite the bumpy road it took to get there, and the constant pushing of reality.