A review by valley
As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This book had me on the edge of my seat. i wanted to reach into it and shake some sense into them tbh.
there's nothing more nervewracking to me than watching a character build a web of lies. i was genuinely more anxious when pip was doing that than when she was abducted.

i had heard both very good and very bad things about this book before reading it, and i saw that someone said that this didn't fit the characters. to which i would say it absolutely does. pip is not the slightly naïve "good girl" anymore. she is traumatised, has lost so much that mattered to her, she has ptsd
(and a drug addiction thanks to that).
she has been failed by the police before. this developement makes perfect sense, even if it's not what we'd wish for her.
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