A review by abbyycadabbyy
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, by Holly Jackson

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

4.0

 MY Rating criteria

-          5 stars: The book must be absolutely amazing and leave me thinking about the book. I also have to love the book start to finish. Loveable characters. 1,000,000% Recommend! 
 
-          4.5 stars: The book was amazing. Left me thinking about it. Loved characters. But it fell short in some ways. 100% Recommend. 
 
-          4 stars: Really good. An overall well-rounded book. Just wasn’t amazing. Likeable characters. Strong/good plot. 75% Recommend. 
 
-          3.5 stars: Fell a little short of being a really good book. Still good. Maybe a character really got on my nerves. Or there was something in the story line I just didn’t like. 65% Recommend. 
 
-          3 stars: Fell a little short of being a really good book. An alright book. Maybe a few characters really got on my nerves. Or there was stuff in the story line I just didn’t like. 50% Recommend. 
 
-          2.5 stars: The book is bad… not horrible but still bad. There was something about the book I did like something that saved it. But overall, I didn’t like the book. 25% Recommend. 
 
-          2 stars: Bad. Something big that had to do with the story I didn’t like. Something about the book I couldn’t get over. But stuff I did like. 15% Recommend. 
 
-          1.5 stars: extremely disliked the book. Didn’t like the plot. Didn’t like the characters. There was something about the book I did like. 10% Recommend. 
 
-          1 star: Absolutely hated the book. Didn’t like any characters. Hated the story. Hated everything about the book. 100% would never Recommend. STAY AWAY! 


Written review

     This book had me experiencing so many different emotions. At times I couldn't wait to pick up the book and read it again, other times all I wanted to do was put the book down because I was so bored.  I loved how every little bit of information that was found led to solving the case. It made me feel like nothing I read was useless. 

     I have never had a book actually make me feel like throwing up and this one did when they were talking about
SpoilerAndie's body in the septic tank
. I couldn't stop thinking about that even hours after I finished the book. A lot of things don't creep/gross me out like that, but there was something about how
SpoilerBecca tried to write an article to try and not get the house sold so Andie's body would not be found
.

     It took me a while to be able to understand the third person writing style because I have never read a book in third person before. With that being said, I HATED Pip as a main character. She was supposed to be this like super smart girl, yet she did reckless stuff and didn't seem to care if it got her in trouble or killed. There are so many times that she could have gotten killed. I was always thinking 'GIRL YOU ARE CONFRONTING ANDIES POSSIBLE KILLERS WHAT MAKE YOU THINK THEY WON'T KILL YOU.' Yeah, I get it Pip saved the day but if this book were told in Ravi's POV I think it would have been a 5/5 for me.
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