Rainy Wu

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This is probably my favorite book I've ever read. Hands down. The entire storyline was interesting and even the title drew me in. The series consists of this book, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, Good Girl Bad Blood, As Good As Dead, and Kill Joy, the side novel. I've read A Good Girl's Guide to Murder and Good Girl Bad Blood. I've ordered the entire series for two reasons. One being I absolutely loved the series and I wanted to own the whole series so I could read them whenever I wanted to. Two being I am dying to read the two I haven't read. I loved this book because the author (Holly Jackson) had had me second guessing my guesses through the entire book. She included mystery, adventure, drama, thriller, and just the right amount of romance so that younger readers wouldn't be "disgusted". The author does not over-exaggerate the characters personalities and makes the entire story seem more "real life". I also extremely loved the end, where they solved the case, but then Pip went back to finish the last part, after I had thought the case was over, giving me yet another thrill. Holly Jackson included one last thrilling part to the story before ending it. There is nothing about this book that disappointed. Everything about this storyline matches up to reality. The characters act like people in real life, like Pip's mom being dramatic about Pip's health, just like any mom in real life would. This made me feel like I was in the story. Holly Jackson made me feel like I was Pip because of all the things that are similar to reality. Holly Jackson had great ideas and the entire plot and how the mystery was solved was incredible. I love how everything was worked out, and every little detail came to use at some point in the investigation. This book deserves 6/5 stars. The series is my favorite ever and honestly, it had me hooked the entire time. Normally I'm a movie person, but I specifically skipped my movie just to read this book. I don't think I've ever been glued to a book like this. Edit : I've finished all the books now and I have to say, it was an interesting but necessary ending. And to the people wondering why they killed a dog, just know that it is relevant in the last book, so it wasn't 100% unnecessary. I love how all the books tie together, for example, clues from the Andie Bell case continuously come up in the last book, clues that you completely forgot about from the first couple books.

The movie overall was okay and the plot was quite interesting, but I feel like the characters have no individuality. The scenes were also quite cliche. Like it’s always the people who hate each other the most who end up being the closest, like Mace and Marie. Or having Graciela, the non-killer/therapist, shoot Nick, ultimately saving Mace. And this list goes on and on like shooting people through a purse, killing the hero's loved ones, or like the hero’s friends double-crossing them. Don’t get me wrong it was a great movie, but it’s almost the same as Jason Bourne, just not as good and with 5 girls instead of one man. Also, the American is a killer. The German is a killer. The Chinese operative is a killer. And the British operative is also pretty good at killing. The only character that is somewhat different is Graciela, the Colombian. In other words, like if you took out one of them, say the Chinese operative, the movie plot wouldn’t change too much. If you take another example, such as the 2021 Suicide Squad, if you took out for example, the Ratcatcher, the entire ending would be different because she plays a very important role in the movie, especially towards the end.