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A review by amybibliophile
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
5.0
A round of a applause to Holly Jackson for writing the YA Thriller of the year!
I knew this was going to be good, I just didn't know it was going to be THAT good.
Pippa Fitz-Amobi is a straight A* student, good-hearted and very intelligent with an inquisitive mind.
When she chooses a closed murder case from 5 years ago of an ex-pupil, Andi Bell, for her final year project she thinks this is the perfect opportunity to find out the truth and find proof that Andi's boyfriend at the time, Sal Singh, wasn't the one to commit the crime.
Unfortunately Sal had commit suicide a few days after the murder, sending a text before he did to his family to confess he had done it. But did he? Pip doesn't think so.
Life has been pretty rough for the Singh family, Holly Jackson manages to convey well what the family were going through being hurled abuse and hate-mail for what their son had allegedly done, and how people used their skin colour in what I can only assume is a prominently white town, to justify their hatred towards them.
Pip is a feisty young woman and isn't afraid to speak up against what she thinks is wrong, so when she sees Sal's brother Ravi being spoken to abusively in a local supermarket she soon seeks him out and the pair, making fast friends over a mutual desire, decide to work on Pip's project together to find out what really happened that night that Andi Bell went missing and to prove Sals innocence for good.
Pip starts to realize her school project is turning more into her own investigation and soon sees that some of the closest people around her that she knows and loves, aren't as innocent as she always thought them to be...
Ultimately this is a story that delves into family values, sibling bonds and learning to trust instincts. Holly's plot twists had me going round in circles, thinking I knew who the culprit was and then hitting me with another turn and I again had no idea who it was. With a lot of thrillers you usually get a feel for who did it quite early on but here I just had no clue, so hats off to you Holly just for that right there! Also I need to say that Pip's character is a massive inspiration, shes so brave with a 'no-nonsense' attitude that I wish to be more like her, if only more of our own police force were like Pip and her out-of-the-box thinking, passion and the lengths she goes to for the truth there would be a whole lot more solved!
I also loved the format of the book, it made it fun and different to other books I've read. Pip's interview inserts were as if you were reading the project file, along with suspect lists and diagrams to give you that total feel of knowing the neighborhood and relating to where places were.
I think the majority of YA readers would enjoy this book, with its fast pace and keep-you-on-the-edge-of-your-seat twists and turns it is a definite page turner and one I enjoyed thoroughly. I
can't wait for the next books to carry on with Pips story!
I knew this was going to be good, I just didn't know it was going to be THAT good.
Pippa Fitz-Amobi is a straight A* student, good-hearted and very intelligent with an inquisitive mind.
When she chooses a closed murder case from 5 years ago of an ex-pupil, Andi Bell, for her final year project she thinks this is the perfect opportunity to find out the truth and find proof that Andi's boyfriend at the time, Sal Singh, wasn't the one to commit the crime.
Unfortunately Sal had commit suicide a few days after the murder, sending a text before he did to his family to confess he had done it. But did he? Pip doesn't think so.
Life has been pretty rough for the Singh family, Holly Jackson manages to convey well what the family were going through being hurled abuse and hate-mail for what their son had allegedly done, and how people used their skin colour in what I can only assume is a prominently white town, to justify their hatred towards them.
Pip is a feisty young woman and isn't afraid to speak up against what she thinks is wrong, so when she sees Sal's brother Ravi being spoken to abusively in a local supermarket she soon seeks him out and the pair, making fast friends over a mutual desire, decide to work on Pip's project together to find out what really happened that night that Andi Bell went missing and to prove Sals innocence for good.
Pip starts to realize her school project is turning more into her own investigation and soon sees that some of the closest people around her that she knows and loves, aren't as innocent as she always thought them to be...
Ultimately this is a story that delves into family values, sibling bonds and learning to trust instincts. Holly's plot twists had me going round in circles, thinking I knew who the culprit was and then hitting me with another turn and I again had no idea who it was. With a lot of thrillers you usually get a feel for who did it quite early on but here I just had no clue, so hats off to you Holly just for that right there! Also I need to say that Pip's character is a massive inspiration, shes so brave with a 'no-nonsense' attitude that I wish to be more like her, if only more of our own police force were like Pip and her out-of-the-box thinking, passion and the lengths she goes to for the truth there would be a whole lot more solved!
I also loved the format of the book, it made it fun and different to other books I've read. Pip's interview inserts were as if you were reading the project file, along with suspect lists and diagrams to give you that total feel of knowing the neighborhood and relating to where places were.
I think the majority of YA readers would enjoy this book, with its fast pace and keep-you-on-the-edge-of-your-seat twists and turns it is a definite page turner and one I enjoyed thoroughly. I
can't wait for the next books to carry on with Pips story!