A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


A bookstagrammer recommended this book, and I’m not one who usually reads murder mysteries, but let me tell you, I am hooked now and forevermore.

I say read, but I listened to the audiobook on a long road trip.

It’s funny because. Who reads murder books while road tripping? Well, this girl does, and it was well worth it. Amateur sleuthing extraordinaire was in the works all over this book, and it was super good. Think Nancy Drew meets modern-day storytelling.

This book was a surprise for my taste, and I was all in. The narration set it up from the beginning, and I loved that the different character voices added to the intrigue.

I loved the storyline and how she was doing a high school senior project, and the characters in the story were so believable and relatable.

The little romantic play intertwined into the storyline was excellent, and I was like, okay, side character line that needs to be its own story, let’s go for it, LOL.

There was heartache underlying the whole time, but not enough to make you cry. It was there but so undertoned that you were more interested in the mystery of it all, and it made you forget that a young girl’s life had been taken, and that is the whole reason the storyline existed.

While the story was false and a complete work of fiction, it was so believable that it could have been real life. I fell in love with this, and when it ended, I was like, okay can this character have another story because I will have another road trip and need something else to listen to? LOL>

Great job, author, and they picked the proper narration for it.

I will have to read more of this type of stuff because I was fully awake the whole trip.



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