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As Good As Dead
by Holly Jackson
I always feel bad posting a bad review, but honestly this was such a poor conclusion to a series that I had really enjoyed. I had seen other people saying that it was a terrible book and really didn't want to believe them, but they were right. This book was not good.
In the first two books, Pip was quite an annoying character but in a loveable sort of way, you couldn't really fault her for her pursuit for justice (though I would have hated her if I were DI Hawkins), and so you had to admire her tenacity.
But in this one, her character is just insane. Like, I get it, she's understandably traumatised, and as an 18 great old she thinks she knows best, so she thinks that turning to her parents for help is out of the question. Her preferred choice is taking drugs. It's not that I don't understand how she's feeling, but for real, she needs REAL help and as someone who has such intelligence, you'd think she'd make better choices. And like ... What are her parents doing this whole time? Obviously they tried to help a bit, but surely they could see that she was lying to their faces about being fine (what 18 year old who witnessed a murder would be fine????) so this is partially on her parents for being so absent and unobservant to the plight of their teenage daughter.
I will say that the author obviously worked hard on this and put a lot of thought into this book, but it seemed like she was focused on completely the wrong part. So much thought went into "how to get away with murder", and not enough went into thinking "should I make this child KILL someone??" The answer is "no".
The ending of this book was completely stupid and frustrating, and even Jason's motivation was dumb af.
It would have been much more interesting and satisfying to see her actually convict Jason and Max without murdering and framing them. It felt too rushed and so was overall disappointing.
In the first two books, Pip was quite an annoying character but in a loveable sort of way, you couldn't really fault her for her pursuit for justice (though I would have hated her if I were DI Hawkins), and so you had to admire her tenacity.
But in this one, her character is just insane. Like, I get it, she's understandably traumatised, and as an 18 great old she thinks she knows best, so she thinks that turning to her parents for help is out of the question. Her preferred choice is taking drugs. It's not that I don't understand how she's feeling, but for real, she needs REAL help and as someone who has such intelligence, you'd think she'd make better choices. And like ... What are her parents doing this whole time? Obviously they tried to help a bit, but surely they could see that she was lying to their faces about being fine (what 18 year old who witnessed a murder would be fine????) so this is partially on her parents for being so absent and unobservant to the plight of their teenage daughter.
I will say that the author obviously worked hard on this and put a lot of thought into this book, but it seemed like she was focused on completely the wrong part. So much thought went into "how to get away with murder", and not enough went into thinking "should I make this child KILL someone??" The answer is "no".
The ending of this book was completely stupid and frustrating, and even Jason's motivation was dumb af.
It would have been much more interesting and satisfying to see her actually convict Jason and Max without murdering and framing them. It felt too rushed and so was overall disappointing.