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A review by theelliad
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
3.0
A Good Girls Guide to Murder involves 18 year old pip working to solve a seemingly already solved murder for her EPQ, remaining far from impartial and getting much too involved in the case.
While this was an enjoyable story, it fell a little flat for me in characters and plot. I felt the twists were pretty predictable and often cycled round too much making any red herrings a little too dismissable, and I can’t help but question how this book was able to feel so fanciful and yet so set within reality simultaneously. The pop culture references felt almost as wildly uncomfortable as the relationships and involvements between Pip and the surrounding characters for some reason? and I honestly just expected a little more. Complaints aside, this was easy to follow and I do want to finish the series (though i’m not entirely sure where the story goes from here) and I do think this will make an excellent tv show. Conceptually it’s very interesting it’s just logistically not the best: Jackson’s writing style is engaging and fun with sarcastic commentary that i thoroughly enjoyed. This novel doesn’t take itself too seriously which is always a bonus.
While this was an enjoyable story, it fell a little flat for me in characters and plot. I felt the twists were pretty predictable and often cycled round too much making any red herrings a little too dismissable, and I can’t help but question how this book was able to feel so fanciful and yet so set within reality simultaneously. The pop culture references felt almost as wildly uncomfortable as the relationships and involvements between Pip and the surrounding characters for some reason? and I honestly just expected a little more. Complaints aside, this was easy to follow and I do want to finish the series (though i’m not entirely sure where the story goes from here) and I do think this will make an excellent tv show. Conceptually it’s very interesting it’s just logistically not the best: Jackson’s writing style is engaging and fun with sarcastic commentary that i thoroughly enjoyed. This novel doesn’t take itself too seriously which is always a bonus.