“Is it normal for one person to have this many enemies? I’m the problem, aren’t I?
“How did it get so late already?
“I understand why they all hate me.
“I might hate me too.”
The third installment in the "Good Girl's Guide to Murder" series, "As Good As Dead" is decidedly darker and more disturbing. In the follow-up to "Good Girl, Bad Blood," Holly Jackson puts Pip Fitz-Amobi into increasingly intense and no-win situations.
Our protagonist makes impossible decisions, endures self-loathing, and floats through much of the story in a dream state due to insomnia. Along the way, Jackson cleverly weaves in discussion of police misconduct and the broader problem of false confessions.
"As Good As Dead" raises a lot of troubling moral questions and ventures somewhat beyond the edges of traditional YA material, but serves as a fitting coda to an absorbing trilogy -- and a fascinating lead character.
“She cried and she let herself cry, a few minutes to grieve for the girl she could never be again.”
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