A review by librarianryan
As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson

dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

 

This is the third and final book in the girls guide to murder. I loved book one, two was entertaining, but I’m really annoyed with Book 3. They give Pip drug problem. Barely a drug problem. She just really needs to sleep, and she needs the chemical enhancement to do it. She’s not doing well after the events of book 2. She needs one more, one more true crime to solve and get it out of her system. She set out to solve one murder, but ends up falling down the rabbit hole of a different event. Throughout the course of all this, it feels like the drug issue dissipates. I hate that it’s there. It does have a bigger plot point, but it’s not needed. They could’ve made the same plot in a different manner. I think the ending is more true life to what might actually happen in similar circumstances, but I really didn’t like it. My dislike of book 3 in the series will not keep me from reading anything else by this author. I have already bought them and plan to read them. But part of me wishes I could go back in time and not read book 3.