Efstasia Karahalios '24 In honor of the leaves falling and spooky season approaching, a book I’ve seen popping up a lot on the internet is A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson. It tells the story of a high school senior named Pip, who has to complete a capstone project for school. She decides to uncover the secrets of her town’s biggest tragedy….the murder of Andie Bell and Sal Singh. Along the way Pip encounters dangers, makes new friends, and discovers secrets that were right in front of her the entire time.
I first read the book in September of 2021. My first impression of the book was that the plot summary sounded extremely interesting. I genuinely enjoyed the beginning of the book towards the middle because it described in detail Pip's thought process and how she came to each and every decision. I didn't exactly love the ending because of how wordy it was. I didn't think it flowed the right way and was very choppy. I had to go back and read it a few times to fully understand. Asking other students who have read the book, I heard relatively the same thing. 15-year-old sophomore Giana Capialbi states, “I enjoyed the journal entries at the end of each chapter because we got a summary from the first-person point of view. However, I disliked the part where the dog was murdered because that made me want to cry and served no purpose they could have left the dog alone.” Anita Perez, who also read the book recently, says, “I was not a big fan of how choppy the writing was, and I agree with Giana: the dog showed an inexplicable amount of sadness for no reason.” All in all this book had a great plot, and if you are able to slowly dissect the ending, then it could be an amazing experience with good plot twists.
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