As Good as Dead

As Good as Dead
Holly Jackson
Star Rating
★★
Reviewer's Rating
Mar 18, 2024

Pippa Fitz-Amobi is haunted by the two murder cases she solved, by the victims, by the attention her crime podcast garnered, and by the survivors, which is bad enough--but then it starts to feel like someone is watching her. 

Honestly not the way I thought this book would turn. Out of the entire series, this last book would by far be the worst one. The beginning was really slow. It took about 10 chapters to actually get the book and plot going. It just keeps mentioning that Pip is on drugs and has trauma from what happened in the past 2 books. 
The first 2 books were more of Pip trying to solve murder, and it usually tells us in the end. However, the third book in particular, Pip kills someone: she kills them near the middle of the book, and then the book goes downhill from then. What makes me dislike this book even more is the fact that Pip doesn’t want to implicate her friends, yet she finds them for an alibi. Then after all of this, she asks her boyfriend, Ravi, to help her cover up the murder. And his reaction was so calm, “oh my sweetest girlfriend killed someone, of course I’m going to help you at all cost”. Then they try to frame it on another dude. Like Ravi’s brother was framed and you’re telling me Ravi is willingly going to help Pip even though Ravi knows what it feels like to have people talking behind your back even though your brother was framed and he didn’t actually kill anyone. 

Just read the first two books, and have it end with Pip leaving for college. The third book isn’t the best.

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