As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #3) by Holly Jackson Narrator: Miriam Kaufmann
Series: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #3
on August 5, 2021
Genres: Thriller
Pages: 459
Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
Format: Audiobook
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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 realizes 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...
I liked book 2 so much that I was looking forward to the series’ conclusion, but I felt cheated and hated the second half of the book.
Don’t keep reading if you don’t want things to be spoiled.
The events in the first half of the book were more or less as expected, but I had the feeling that things were happening too fast. I was approaching the equator, but the story felt like it was near the end. This was because the author introduced a plot twist that undermined everything we had learned about Pip in the previous books. Out of character acquired a new meaning here. Righteous and know-it-all Pip suddenly lost all her morale and acted in a way that I fully despised. I hated the second half of the book and only kept listening because it was the last in the series, and it felt dumb to leave it unfinished. The ending did a minimal job of redeeming Pip, but after the buildup of such an interesting character, Jackson threw everything out the window and cheated the reader just to try to make things more interesting. It didn’t work for me.
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