#also Cara and Nat from the book series AGGGTM

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who cares if they barely interacted in canon? if these two characters aren't secretly besties (they just forgot to say in canon) then how come they're both my favourites, hm? hm?

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Good Girl, Bad Blood

Holly Jackson has done it again. Like the first book in the AGGGTM series, it had me on the edge of me seat from the first word to the last word, and like the first book I devoured it within a day. Some of my favourite parts of the book include;

1. Ravi and Pip. They are one of my favourite couples in literature that I have read recently. Their relationship is healthy, with lots of communication (especially on Ravi’s part, not so much with Pip but she obviously isn’t as much of a communicator when it comes to her feelings). The consistent nicknames that Ravi gives Pip GIVE ME LIFE. I want my own Ravi Singh now.

2. More interactions between Pip and her other friends. Jackson didn’t include many interactions between Pip and her other friends in the first novel, mostly focusing on Pip’s friendship with Cara (whom I adore), and seeing more of the friendship between Connor and Pip made me that much more engaged. I also loved the portrayal of how friendships can fall apart. Like, I was seriously ready to jump into the book and choke out Ant and Lauren. 

3. NAT DA SILVA RIGHTS!!!!! I seriously love her so much, and love how her relationship developed with Pip throughout the story, especially at the end of the trial when the verdict was reached. I also absolutely loathe Max Hastings and wanted to jump into the book and choke him out as well, the bastard. But  also appreciate how Jackson displayed an accurate r*pe trial because unfortunately many r*pists do not receive jail time. As much as I would have loved to see that bastard behind bars I can also understand why Jackson went the sadly more realistic route and had Max be found innocent. Going off of this, my all time favourite part of the novel is,

4. Pip’s character development. I think that it’s extremely obvious that Pip started out as a more neutral good character in AGGGTM, possibly a chaotic good, but in Good Girl, Bad Blood she definitely takes a turn toward being more of a chaotic neutral in my opinion. I mean, our girl went and vandalized Max’s house and wrote rapist on his door. She has definitely started giving less fucks about what she does. Although I can’t say I don’t like it because I think that she did what many readers wanted to do when reading about Max being found innocent. And the fact that she went and told Ravi right after it happened and he basically went “ *sigh* what crazy shit did you do now?”, like I love that he just accepts that he cannot stop his girlfriend from doing potentially dangerous and illegal things.

To sum up, I fucking LOVE this series, I love this book, I love Holly Jackson, and I love Pip and Ravi. If you like this type of stuff in your books, mystery with a dash of romance, realism and vandalizing the house of r*pists, READ THIS BOOK.