Welcome dear readers! If you’re not new here, then welcome back!! (okay, I finally changed my introduction a little. Achievement unlocked!)         

As you know, (if you didn’t, then you will now) there are two more books to the ‘Good Girl’s Guide to murder’ series, and I’ve read both. If you haven’t read the first review yet, go read it before starting this one, or else you won’t understand half the things it’s related to.

Let’s start with the second one.
I present to you my latest book of interest: Good Girl, Bad Blood, also by Holly Jackson

Here we can see Pippa continuing her investigations, however, with a different case this time. Connor was one of her friends, in the previous books, right? Now his brother has gone missing, and the police yet again refuse to do anything as he seems a low-risk case. (Very typical of the police, as far as I’ve read in books.)

Pip had decided to start a podcast, to tell everyone how Andie Bell had really died. And she named it “A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder” podcast…how oddly fitting, huh? There she starts getting a lot of troll comments, since it’s obvious people don’t like how she seems to find out the truth about mysteries they want to cover up.

Of course, the only person who will take up the case is Pip, and she tries to investigate it as non-problematically as possible. Also, now there is the trial of Max Hasting in court for Nat D’Silva’s case against him. His lawyer keeps trying to impose large fines on Pip, and this keeps fueling her annoyance.

The real person behind Jamie’s disappearance is very near and close at hand, but who is he? Will Pip be able to find out in time, before she ‘disappears’ herself, too?


Overall this book was actually better than the first one in the series, due to obvious reasons. We see how Pip herself is learning that trying to cling to ‘the truth’ in murder cases would get her in a legal case or end up possibly not alive any longer, and decides to hide most of the truth till she has rock-solid evidence. In the first book, Pip’s attitude is more like: “Oh, it’s the truth, obviously they’ll believe it even though it sounds impossible”, and of course that works out in the long run. (that was irony.)

I liked how the plot twists so suddenly and darkly, because while in the middle of the book I felt like the story was not getting anywhere. As I said in my previous review, I felt a few loose threads were never wrapped up, some leads were not followed up. Well, in this book, at least half of it clicks into place. So, if you need to read this series, buy the whole set or you will remain in blissful ignorance.

We can also see how Ravi and Pip’s relationship develops better and they become closer. And Cara and Pip were always together no matter what, so I liked how the wholesome friendship was still there. Slowly, even Nat D’Silva began to warm to her after she showed her the empathy she required, which was nice to read among all the murder cases. (That last part was very out of place, I know, sorry.)

One of the best things about this book series is that we can see how some friendships remain through time, some become on-the-surface relations while some never work out. (The last part was for Lauren and Ant, spoiler alert)
It also depicts how sometimes it’s needed to push some people away to protect yourself and them.

While this book contained less humour than the first one, I couldn’t care less because the intensity of the plot makes up for it. Except for the first bit, before Pip took up the case, where everything seemed a bit more normal.

The plot twist toward the end made my jaw drop to the ground (I know that’s not possible because no one’s jaw muscles are that flexible, but I do know my mouth did open) And the fact that the story focuses on so many modern issues like cat-fishing, hacking, etc is amazing work.

Well, Goodbye for today, readers! I will meet you in another post (which I know will be a book review, because I already started it, but I’m going to pretend it’s not.)

Cheerio 🙂