Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson
Once I finished A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, I could not think of anything else but starting the second book in this series, which is precisely what I did.
In this book, we follow Pip after the events in the last book. She quit being a detective and started a true crime podcast, telling the story of Andie Bell, the murder she solved the previous year. But this all changes when the brother of a friend of hers goes missing, and the police can’t do anything about it because Jamie Reynolds isn’t a high-risk case.
Pip can’t let this happen, and with Conner, the younger brother of Jamie and Ravi, her helpful partner from the Andie Bell murder, they start an investigation. But this time, there is even more risk.
I was flying through this book even though there was barely any time in the day for me to read. This series has me reading even in the late hours of the day when I should be sleeping. I don’t know how Holly Jackson can do it, but this book was even better than A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, and that one was already perfect.
“But justice doesn’t exist, and the truth doesn’t matter, not in the real world.”
Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood
The plot of this book was as great as the last one, and even though it’s again a mystery with the same character, it was completely different. The story didn’t feel reused at any moment, and with how it developed, it felt like it could have happened in real life.
“It was in nightmares, and crashing pans, and heavy breaths, and dropped pencils, and thunderstorms, and closing doors, and too loud, and too quiet, and alone and not, and the ruffle of pages, and the tapping of keys and every click and every creak. The gun was always there. It lived inside her now.”
Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood
I already have the third book of the series in my hand, but I am scared to start reading it because I know it will be the last one. It probably will break my heart, and with the ending of Good Girl, Bad Blood, it will only take the first few chapters.
This book is definitely a new addition to my list of favourite books of all time, and because of that, it has to get five stars from me.
