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“When you catch someone lying about a murdered girl, you go ask them why”

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

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CBR15 Passport Challenge – New to me author Five years ago, blonde and beautiful high school girl Andie Bell was murdered, although no one ever found her body, despite careful searching. However, Andie’s boyfriend Sal Singh confessed in a text message to his dad and then committed suicide before he could be arrested by the police. So everyone knows that he did it, and the case is closed. Pippa Fitz-Amobi remembers Sal Singh as a kind and considerate young man, with a promising university career […]

Mum and Nan are going to love this

Five Survive by Holly Jackson

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As the family’s Designated Reader, I usually make a note of who the book is destined for – The Best Niece in Australia gets the quality YA, my brother gets most Fantasy, and anything involving violent death and appropriate comeuppance has Mum and Nan written all over it. Everyone in Five Survive is off to Spring Break – though they’re high school students, this falls somewhere between YA and New Adult.  Red and Maya, best friends forever, Maya’s older brother and his girlfriend, their long […]

This series is my jam. And now I want some actual jam.

Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2) by Holly Jackson

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Dudes, I read this so fast. Nobody says dudes anymore except for me. Sometimes I call my boss dude, just coz, and he’s like, Did you just call me dude? Anyhoodle, I read this book so fast, like super fast. There is something about this series that just gets to me. I love it. Even when it is not being the best objectively. I was so happy when I found out that this book was in large part going to be about consequences just like […]

Good Job, Pickle

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

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CBR Bingo: Font I picked Holly Jackson’s A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder for the font square because the book has a lot of different fonts in the text. The book uses a variety fonts to indicate things like the main character Pippa’s interview transcripts, text messages between characters, hand-written notes about the crime, and a scary note that shows up in formal font warning Pippa away from her investigation. I have a fondness (font-ness! hahahaha) for handwriting fonts, and there are some good ones […]

Cannonballing with teenage murder detectives.

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1) by Holly Jackson

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I was so pleasantly surprised by this one. It was an excellent choice to be reading on my birthday* to make up for the fact that my body is slowly succumbing to the forces of entropy. *Which was now over a month ago, whoopsie. I’m wary with YA these days, especially contemporary YA, because I want a good story and good characters, not plot gimmicks and sensationalism, and books that are read by people like I used to be as a teenager (no discernment whatsoever). […]

Whoopsie

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson

As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson

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So I have fallen almost laughably behind on posting reviews here (like an entire cannonball behind of books I have read/reviewed and not posted). So whoops. Going to try to be better about keeping up! I’m going to post a couple series that I have finished and then I guess just start anew cause walking backwards sounds like a nightmare. When life stops kicking my butt, I plan on wondering through and commenting and being part of the community more! Sorry, it took me a […]



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