Review: As Good as Dead by Holly Jackson

Title: As Good as Dead
Author: Holly Jackson
Series: A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
Genre: YA, Mystery/Thriller

About this Book: This book is a mystery/thriller starring a teenage true crime podcaster set in either Connecticut or England depending on where you live and what version of the book has been sold to you.

It is the third book in a trilogy, about Pip, who started out in book one solving the disappearance of one of her schoolmates and the suicide of another.

In this book she is ready to head off to college, but unlike a lot of her friends and classmates she is a little less than excited, consumed by the last case she worked on.

My thoughts:

I have loved and adored the previous two books in this trilogy. When I finished this book, I closed the cover of my ereader and sat there for a half hour, my brain trying to make sense of what I had just read. It was different than the previous two, much more cerebral and much…much more in general.

Pip is a very different character here than we met in the first book. She has matured, but more importantly she has been through significant trauma, which has changed almost everything except for the very core of her being. The core being that she is someone who believes in justice, and has a strong sense of right and wrong. Who has the capacity to deliver that justice and can do it has changed.

This book will have you questioning a lot of what you thought you knew about who the big players have been in this town, and who really has been hurting people. The truth will shock you.

There will be moments when reading this that you might even find yourself wondering if the justice served is right or wrong, or not.

And you just might realize you’ve missed something that was staring you in the face the whole time.

I will definitely be picking up more of Holly Jackson’s books.

Favourite Quotes:

“Why hadn’t she ever stopped to think how lucky she was? All those people who cared about her, whether she deserved them or not.”

“You are the maximum amount of Pipness that any Pip could be. The Ultra-Pip. I’m going to introduce you to my family this weekend as Pippus Maximus.”