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A review by matmatmatty
Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
This was fantastic.
Following on from the events of the first book, Pip isn't happy with how her findings are being portrayed in the media, so she starts a podcast to ensure that the truth is being told. Her podcast gets super popular and so she decides to stop investigating - she's done for now. Until her friend's brother goes missing and Pip feels like she is forced into investigating and using her massive platform to help find him.
Okay so first, I want to start by saying just how great it was to see 'consequences' to what happened in the previous book. I'm not just talking about people goingto prison etc, but how all the media attention affected Pip and her life. Not just how people know about her, but how strangers interact with her (especially being a woman online and getting death threats etc ). And how this affected not only her decision to look for Jamie, but how she looked into his disappearance. There's a Netflix mockumentary that covered something similar and had a section where the main character gets confronted by a person of interest because they revealed too much about their life with no consideration. I'm really glad that this book takes that into account.
Okay everything else! I really enjoyed this, the mystery was a lot more intense that the previous one because Jamie was missing NOW, rather than multple years before. I really wanted to know what happened to him and that really kept me hooked. The final reveal made total sense, but one thing I will say is that there wasn't a lot of opportunity to guess what was happening beforehand. Not the worst thing, but something to note for sure.
I won't go into spoilers too much here, but I really enjoyed this one and I am really looking forward to the next one!
Following on from the events of the first book, Pip isn't happy with how her findings are being portrayed in the media, so she starts a podcast to ensure that the truth is being told. Her podcast gets super popular and so she decides to stop investigating - she's done for now. Until her friend's brother goes missing and Pip feels like she is forced into investigating and using her massive platform to help find him.
Okay so first, I want to start by saying just how great it was to see 'consequences' to what happened in the previous book. I'm not just talking about people goingto prison etc, but how all the media attention affected Pip and her life. Not just how people know about her, but how strangers interact with her (
Okay everything else! I really enjoyed this, the mystery was a lot more intense that the previous one because Jamie was missing NOW, rather than multple years before. I really wanted to know what happened to him and that really kept me hooked. The final reveal made total sense, but one thing I will say is that there wasn't a lot of opportunity to guess what was happening beforehand. Not the worst thing, but something to note for sure.
I won't go into spoilers too much here, but I really enjoyed this one and I am really looking forward to the next one!
Graphic: Blood, Murder
Moderate: Child death, Rape, Kidnapping
Minor: Infidelity