I think Jackson’s ‘Good Girl, Bad Blood’ was a rare case where the sequel was better than the initial book. In Pip’s search for her friends missing brother Jamie Reynolds I found the mystery just a little more engaging than her first EPQ project (though it wasn’t in this case a murder mystery). Despite such, it was a little more gritty (as much as a YA murder mystery can be) and generally more engaging, I did listen to it all across two days, the majority in one to its credit. 

 

The audiobook was also a bit less jarring as I had already listened to the first one and the same style, where music and crackling phone line effects are implemented. I still wasn’t a huge fan of this especially when a character has his voice obscured for the recording and from a listening perspective it was impossible to hear what his statement actually was due to how muffled it was. 

Pip also got a little bit of character development this time which she entirely lacked in the first book, so that also counts for something.