As Good As Dead: TikTok made me buy it! The brand new and final book in the bestselling YA thriller trilogy (A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, Book 3)

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Holly Jackson has quickly become one of my favourite authors, and I intend to read every book she publishes in the future.

Pip couldn’t shake this uncanny feeling, that it wasn’t Hawkins sitting across from her, questioning her. Also, the minuscule part of me that is still somewhat romantic wishes there was a bit more after that last text from Ravi. The tone of this entire story is much darker than the previous two and I feel like some people may not like it as much because of that. Pip heads over to Max’s house, covering the cameras and having the drugs needed to knock Max out ready with her and Nat is going to be her distraction for it all but there is still a small chance that it might not work and something might go wrong which means Pip would end up in prison for the rest of her life.

nat deserves all the happiness <3 she’s such a strong character and i just loved her, especially in this one. This book picks up after the events of book 2, Pip is struggling to come to terms with the death of Stanley Forbes and all the fall out of events with Max Hastings. Maybe it’s just the improbability of this town having so many killers in it… but it’s a thriller, I’ll stop. At that point, the book takes a turn in a direction I don't even recognize for this series and its characters. Almost the entirety of this series is dedicated to Pip and Ravi covering her tracks and framing Max for the murder from trying to alter the time of death by moving, cooling and warming Jason’s body to manipulate the factors used to determine time of death.

As always, Pip is completely focused on the task at hand, even to the detriment of some of her relationships. The witty banter between our leading lady and Ravi sustains me in a way that few fictional couples can manage, and while I appreciate the darker turn that the end of book 2 made, I still feel like this one went in a direction that undermines the foundation of who these characters are in the first 2/3 of the series. the difference with the crime that pip committed was the fact that the ppl she got involved (max) deserved everything coming to them (jason).Regardless, I loved how all the mystery or cases from book 1 and 2 were brought together and tied into this one. Either way, I applaud the author for covering some difficult topics, and respect her decision to finish out this series in the way she envisioned it.