This title’s lowkey describing me.

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Welcome back to another opinionated book review! This time, we are returning back to the world of Pippa Fitz-Amobi, the teenager who managed to solve a murder mystery case by herself and acquit sweet Sal Singh for the murder of Andie Bell, all the while putting herself in danger. 

The sequel to A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, this book picks up right where the first book left off. Feeling the weight of Andie Bell’s case, Pippa has decided to give up her murder solving ways to try and live a normal life of a teenager in high school. But when her friend Connor tells her that his brother Jamie is missing, and the police refuse to look into it, Pippa has no choice but to investigate the missing person’s case which will lead her down another dangerous path.



Holly Jackson is really just an incredible writer and I believe she’s truly found her niche in writing this genre. If you’re a fan of a mystery-thriller, I highly recommend you pick this book up to read (after reading A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder obviously).

I believe I finished this book within a 48 hour period because I struggled to put it down, even at the expense of my sleep. At no point was there ever a lull in the action or suspense, and even when I thought I’d found a point in the book where it was okay to put my bookmark in and go to sleep, something wild happened, so I had no choice but to continue.

Good Girl, Bad Blood goes down a different path to the first book, this time looking into a potential missing person’s case as opposed to a case closed murder mystery; something that I really enjoyed. It keeps it fresh and unpredictable in the best sense, and it doesn’t get to the point like the Death in Paradise TV show where a bunch of murders happen in a small location and you’re questioning the believability of it. 

There are quite a few twists and turns in this book, almost to the point that you forget the initial plot of this book is to find Jamie, and I absolutely loved that about Good Girl, Bad Blood. Once you think you’ve solved the case, the game is changed, and as a reader you’re left wondering where this is going and how it will end.

Once again, I found myself really adoring the character of Pippa, and her relationship with sweet angel Ravi. Her methodical investigative manner was once again highly detailed, but not in a way where it wasn’t believable for a switched-on high schooler to achieve. This made her seem like a real character, which is something a few authors struggle to achieve.

Wid-o-meter
Storyline: 9/10
Style of writing: 8.5/10
Overall: 8.75/10

A very successful sequel to an amazing first novel, Good Girl, Bad Blood is fantastically written with a gripping storyline from start to finish. With very little to fault, I highly recommend you pick this book up for a very enthralling read – again, after finishing A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder of course.

– by The Black Widow