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As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson
4.0
adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The first half of this book was SO good, I thought it was better than the first and second book. But then the second half kinda ruined it for me or at the very least the ending wasn’t satisfying. I understand Pip went through something traumatic that altered her way of thinking but it felt toooo off for her character. I know she’s smarter than how she acted
the pip I knew would not have turned back to kill Jason even if she was so angry and out of it cause it’s not the smart thing to do. I would’ve liked it so much better if she proved he was the DT killer, there was so much evidence of what he did to her the police would’ve had to believe her. I didn’t like that she strayed away from clearing Billy either and I wish it went in that direction instead. This is further proven by the fact that the police do find evidence after Jason’s death that shows he’s the DT killer sooo. I did enjoy the parts of her covering the murder with Ravi tho. Along with this it was dumb of her to cut off everyone she loves and would paint her in more of a bad light than if she just acted normal?? Even if she thought the police would come for her, the evidence led to Max more so she should’ve just gone with that and continued to live her life; if shes smart enough to get away with murder she would definitely be smart enough to come up with another plan
. I am still going to give this a 4 star because there were many parts that were good even if I didn’t like the way it went.