As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson

Good evening lovely book readers,

February mystery month has kick started. And the first book that I am going to review is the third instalment in the A Good Girls Guide To Murder (AGGTM).

Find as also my review on the whole series here: spoiler alert for those who have not read the full trilogy!

"One last case, and it had landed right on her doorstep. It was her against them this time. No Andie Bell, no Sal Singh, no Elliot Ward or Becca Bell, no Jamie Reynolds or Charlie Green or Stanley Forbes, and no Jane Doe. The game had changed. Her against them. Save herself to save herself."

Pip's POV, page 105, As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson.

The finale to A Good Girl's Guide to Murder series. By the end of this mystery series, you'll never think of good girls the same way again...

Pip is about to head to college, but she is still haunted by the way her last investigation ended. She’s used to online death threats in the wake of her viral true-crime podcast, but she can’t help noticing an anonymous person who keeps asking her: Who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears?

Soon the threats escalate and Pip realises that someone is following her in real life. When she starts to find connections between her stalker and a local serial killer caught six years ago, she wonders if maybe the wrong man is behind bars.

Police refuse to act, so Pip has only one choice: find the suspect herself—or be the next victim. As the deadly game plays out, Pip discovers that everything in her small town is coming full circle... and if she doesn’t find the answers, this time she will be the one who disappears...

Holy Jesus!

First of all do not read this review if you haven't started the series or even finished the second novel Good Girl Gone Bad. This is very important!

Just to give you guys a background, this book and series started my newfound passion for murder mysteries. I enjoy them, in books only, as I enjoy a good romance or fantasy. But I wanted to finish the series and put it behind me, before the TV production and show came out.

Just bare in mind, I might be really critical about it and it is nothing like the books, I won't hesitate to point out those facts. I did a similar thing with Shadow and Bone and I can be very passionate.

First of all, I don't know for you guys but the writing style is on another level. Who can say that they were able to read part 1 in a whole afternoon (296 pages, yes yes) considering the fact that I am a slow reader and I take loads of breaks. It says a lot about the author's writing style, and I love it. I'll be definitely reading the novella of this series and Five Guys as well as the Reappearance of Rachel Price.

Now I have to put a spoiler alerts 🚨🚨🚨

Second the whole story! The second book was another case in comparison to book 1, but because it involved the same people as book 1 it kind of feels like a continuation (not 100%). But this third instalment just makes all the connections that we were actually missing and never realised. It links back the case about Andie and Sal, about Charlie Green and Stanley Forbes and now Jason Bell.

It just completed the loop brilliantly and shows Pip knowledge of crime scenes and murders. She has been on different cases for the past two books, and now she is entering two cases that are intertwined on some level.

The ending of the book, not the epilogue actually made me cry but then the epilogue got me frustrated on another level. Like that's not an ending!

Well hope you guys enjoyed this review!

Love Manon