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A review by abbier_14
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
dark
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
I have no clue what to rate this book because it's worse than all the books ive rated 3 stars but way better than the books ive rated 2 stars because those are trash. So i guess its 2.5 rounded up but it doesnt feel right to me.
I feel lied to why was everyone going on about this book.
- I had this problem with Truely devious as well but i dont like when random teenagers somehow solve a murder and the police were somehow incapable. Like the police have better resources and equipment but some random girls passion just outweighs all of that.
The ending wasnt even satisfying anyway. There was literally no way for us to have worked out how Andie was killed on our own through clues or hidden, subtle things from what we've been told. We just had to rely on waiting for a character to tell their whole life story to this random girl and hope that they confess to murder for somereason.
It was soooo unrealistic that any of these people agreed to talk to Pippa. If i was one of them i would be like no go away im not revealing any of my private information about something that is very traumatic to you. Like huuuh i was just baffled by all the interviews tbh.
I also HATED how biased Pippa was about the whole thing. Like im sure the whole point of an EPQ is that yeah you can use what youre interested in to pick a topic, but from then on you should look at research or collect primary data objectively, and only come to the conclusion from the evidence youve gathered. Not use your feelings to make assumptions that you dont even know are true or not, especially when dealing with a murder investigation like what.
- The characters were charicatures of teenagers, police, and drug dealers. They were so stereotypical that it was just soo painful to read. Im so glad thatMax wasnt the murderer because that would have been my last straw, making someone be the most over the top rude and aggressive so they can be the obvious suspect throughout the whole book and then suddenly have it flipped around and not be him is not a plot twist btw.
The family dynamic was cringe everyone was too happy lol. There was also just too many characters all with just similar plain girl names that i had nooo idea who was who.
- Also side rant but if the author was planning to go down the racist police route you dont just have a police officer come out and say that "he must have done it because hes brown". No the whole point is that the police put up a front that they are not racist, but then somehow cases involving ethnic minorities never get solved and are treated with disrespect for some compleately unknown and mysterious reason, how strange.
But yeah the author didnt really touch on racism again which i was kinda glad at because i know it would have been handled poorly. Ive seen in reviews this book be said to have a white saviour trope and i can kind of see it, especially that scene where Pippa 'stands up' to Ravi in the supermarket, omg how cringe was that.
But yeah i wasnt really entertained but i also didnt hate it as much as my two stars. It was just unremarkable and i was counting down the pages very early on.
I feel lied to why was everyone going on about this book.
- I had this problem with Truely devious as well but i dont like when random teenagers somehow solve a murder and the police were somehow incapable. Like the police have better resources and equipment but some random girls passion just outweighs all of that.
The ending wasnt even satisfying anyway. There was literally no way for us to have worked out how Andie was killed on our own through clues or hidden, subtle things from what we've been told. We just had to rely on waiting for a character to tell their whole life story to this random girl and hope that they confess to murder for somereason.
It was soooo unrealistic that any of these people agreed to talk to Pippa. If i was one of them i would be like no go away im not revealing any of my private information about something that is very traumatic to you. Like huuuh i was just baffled by all the interviews tbh.
I also HATED how biased Pippa was about the whole thing. Like im sure the whole point of an EPQ is that yeah you can use what youre interested in to pick a topic, but from then on you should look at research or collect primary data objectively, and only come to the conclusion from the evidence youve gathered. Not use your feelings to make assumptions that you dont even know are true or not, especially when dealing with a murder investigation like what.
- The characters were charicatures of teenagers, police, and drug dealers. They were so stereotypical that it was just soo painful to read. Im so glad that
The family dynamic was cringe everyone was too happy lol. There was also just too many characters all with just similar plain girl names that i had nooo idea who was who.
- Also side rant but if the author was planning to go down the racist police route you dont just have a police officer come out and say that "he must have done it because hes brown". No the whole point is that the police put up a front that they are not racist, but then somehow cases involving ethnic minorities never get solved and are treated with disrespect for some compleately unknown and mysterious reason, how strange.
But yeah the author didnt really touch on racism again which i was kinda glad at because i know it would have been handled poorly. Ive seen in reviews this book be said to have a white saviour trope and i can kind of see it, especially that scene where Pippa 'stands up' to Ravi in the supermarket, omg how cringe was that.
But yeah i wasnt really entertained but i also didnt hate it as much as my two stars. It was just unremarkable and i was counting down the pages very early on.