#a good girls guide to murder series

[imarayoffuckingsunshine]

I have so many thoughts over the agggtm series that I can't articulate them the way I want to.

Where were my Pip and Ravi moments??

What is happening with Nat's character??

Where was the interaction with Stanley Forbes?

Barney's death was an accident!

That girl in his attic was just as convinced that she was Andie Bell as he was supposed to be.

Probably not imprtant, but I keep wondering why Ant isn't apart of Pip's friend group like he was in the books.

[motheringbird]

[mehamang]

thinking about how ravi texted pip 3 minutes after the verdict announcement.. 3 minutes... and immediately she types something back like😭 pipravi love each other so much they have my whole heart i just know they made plans to meet up that same day!!

[skarkkk]

I watched A Good Girl's Guide to Murder and I kind of need to read the book.

First point: plot after plot, I didn't expect the ending and I loved it.

Second, I couldn't help but notice how beautiful Emma Myers, my ultimate crush, is.

Third, I liked that the romance was a secondary thing and focused more on suspense - I love Ravi, but I also love mystery/murder.

Fourth, the ending of their friendship - Pippa and Cara - was left open so I was curious.

I don't know if there's a second book or if there will be a second season, but if there is, I'll definitely check it out.

[sweetnnaivete]

pip fitz-amobi is the most me coded character ever i fear

[randapear]

[riffteddss]

𝙥𝙞𝙥'𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙜𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙥

ACKKKK I LOVE THEM

[historiaiswritten]

The finale to the Good Girls Guide to Murder series, As Good as Dead was quite the finale with all the twists and turns and everything being flipped upside down with what evidence and clues you are given and what you, as the reader, must figure out for yourself. 

In this finale, Pip is spiraling even more and being on the edge of constant paranoia really gets the readers heart pumping. She is back on the case after being traumatized so much from the previous case she worked on; she is hoping to jump into a Jane Doe case to be able to ‘save herself.’ After arguing with the wonderful Max Hastings about a lawsuit, she is now being stalked and having messages left at her home. She tries to get the police involved, but just like the other two times she has gone to them, they say it is all in her head and she is paranoid with how famous her podcast has become. 

Being paranoid is never fun, but neither is being threatened and kidnapped. A heart-pounding conclusion to a wonderful trilogy that I devoured quickly. I wanted to know more, I wanted to hear more about where the plot was going. This author has me hooked and I may bite off more in the future!

[iheartgracie]

Sad Pip Quotes

“she didn’t want to scream, actually. She wanted to cry and ask him to help her, help her understand everything, understand herself. Beg him to come back and show her how to be OK with who she was again. Tell her, in his calm, soothing voice, that maybe she was losing this fight because she was already lost.”

“She’d closed her eyes and time had skipped, but it hadn’t felt like sleep. It felt like drowning.Now she had none. Nothing at all. No crutch.”

“She could scream now, if she wanted. Cry out for help. But what would be the point? No one could hear, and no help was coming”

“The first thing she did was cry.Dropped on to her bed and wrapped a pillow around her face, taking it away just as DT had. Silent, aching sobs that retched, tearing at her throat, unpicking threads in her chest, leaving them unravelled and bare.She cried and she let herself cry, a few minutes to grieve for the girl she could never be again.”

“she was crying now, heaving sobs that made it hard to breathe as she unlocked her car and sat inside.She bawled into her hands”

“She screamed at him. A bottomless scream, raw and visceral. ‘Fuck you!’ she screamed, angry, desperate tears falling into her open mouth. ‘Fuck you! Fuck you!”

“Pip felt her eyes prickling, a catch in her throat. She thought she’d never see them again. Never smile with them, or cry, or laugh, never grow old as her parents grew older, their traditions becoming hers, like the way her dad made mashed potato, or the way her mum decorated the tree at Christmas. Never see Josh grow into a man, or know what his forever-voice sounded like, or what made him happy. All those moments, a lifetime of them, big and small. Pip had lost them, and now she hadn’t”

“Please.’ Her throat clenched like it did before she cried, breaking her voice into a million little pieces. ‘Don’t make me do this again. Please. I can’t do this again.”

“Nat’s scream never left her. She could feel it there, slinking around beneath her skin”

“the gun is in there too, hiding beneath every beat. Waiting for her. It follows Pip as they leave. Sits beside her in the dark car. It tucks itself up into bed with her. Pip shakes and she blocks her ears and she tells the gun to go away. But it won’t go.”

“The sound of her name caught her off-guard and she winced, her heart spiking, and suddenly her hands were wet but it didn’t feel like sweat, it was blood, it was blood, it was blood . . .‘Pip?’ Ravi whispered to her, giving her fingers a gentle squeeze. And no, there was no blood, she’d only imagined it.”

“Her eyes blurred with angry tears as she looked up, arms locked behind her, her dad’s calming voice in her ear. The sky was a pale and creamy blue, pockets of soft clouds floating across. A pretty sky for today. Stanley would have liked that, she thought, as she screamed up into it.”

“The gun.It was here now, beating within her chest, knocking against her ribs. Aiming with her eyes. 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.”

[smallsinger5901]

BBC AGGGTM SPOILERS

I AM going to be watching the agggtm show on iplayer (I am right now) so all spoilets will be tagged with ‘BBC AGGGTM SPOILERS’

BE WARNED!!!

[motheringbird]

[the-wanderer]

[novelswithariana]

books I've read in 2023 📖 no. 03

Kill Joy by Holly Jackson

“Maybe she’d been wrong before. Maybe solving murders wasn’t too different from homework after all. She could feel herself falling headfirst into it, the rest of the world fading out.”

[nerdynatreads]

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book review || Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson

video review || TLDR Version -- September Wrap Up || 13 books!

Holy shit this was so good. Mad Veronica Mars vibes this time around.

Jackson really does weave a really surprising mystery for a ya story, but what’s truly impressive is the realistic depiction of how solving these crimes have worn on Pip. This book is dark, but not in the gory, violent, awful crime sort of way. The way grief is showcased and the writing style when she’s in shock, absolutely haunting, so perfectly puts you in that same mindset. The development of Pip’s character felt shockingly grounded for a story where the teen detective is solving crimes before the police.

I can’t believe I took so long to continue this series because I really blasted through this one. Every time I was listening to the audio, I was so absorbed. The book is so fast-paced and the multimedia elements really make you feel like you’re a part of the story and add a layer of fun to trying to solve everything. The podcast element certainly made me compare this to Sadie and it held up.

The relationship with Ravi, from the first book, is still cute and adds a little levity to an otherwise heavy story and I love Pip’s dad, he’s so pure. I still just wish we got a little bit more character work on people who aren’t Pip.

4.5 / 5 stars

[graysdarling]

〡𝓒. reynolds ˎˊ˗ masterlist.

key: ⟢ fluff. | ☆ angst. | ꩜ suggestive. | ✮ coming soon. (drafted) | ༄ coming soon. (not drafted)

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[simp-for-fiction]

We don't talk enough about the strength it takes to pretend you're okay the morning after you've read a gut wrenching fic/ book the night before.