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Kill Joy (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #0.5)

Holly Jackson

Start date: May 1, 2025

Finish date: May 31, 2025

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Feb 24, 2023 Aly rated it really liked it

Shelves: mystery, contemporary, 2023, netgalley, ya, novella

This was a fun novella and made me want to organize a murder mystery game. It's set before the first book, so Pip isn't yet traumatized from all the things and gets to have fun solving the murder. It was easy to get invested in the game and I found myself trying to put the clues together along with Pip.

The ending was a bit unexpected and I may just have to reread the first Girl's Guide book again!

I voluntarily read and reviewed this book. All opinions are my own. Thank you to Delacorte Press an ...more

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May 22, 2023 Jenn rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult, books-i-own, 4-star-reads, mystery, read-in-2023

Having blown through this entire series earlier this year, I was super excited to jump back in and with a prequel to boot!

I love murder mysteries. I've always wanted to have a murder mystery party so getting to read one was almost the same, right? And this was so fun. I loved being back with Pip and seeing who she was before the Andie Bell case. You really get a good feel of how competitive she is and how she always wants to be right, but you also get to see how much she gives to the case and w ...more

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Dec 04, 2023 Mucia rated it really liked it

This was a fun novella to go back to when I was missing the AGGGTM universe.

A nice little addition that has Pip trying to solve a murder mystery her friends planned. I hadn’t realized how much I missed Pip😅 Might have to dive back and re-listen to the series again. She’s also so young and so not traumatized yet. This poor child has no idea what’s coming😫

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Feb 01, 2024 Priya rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-in-2024

This was an interesting prequel that set up the Good Girl trilogy of which I have read the first two.
The origin of Pip's involvement and in fact, obsession, with the case that leads her into crime solving, is explained here. This is more of a cosy mystery because it is about a murder mystery enactment at a dinner party that Pip attends with her friends, where they try to guess who the perpetrator is. ...more

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Oct 21, 2021 Kayleigh {K-Books} rated it liked it

Shelves: own-physical, thriller

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I fell head over heels in love with Holly Jackson’s amazing writing style the other year when I picked up YA Thriller, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder. I instantly loved her characters and the way she kept me completely guessing right till the very end. So, when I saw this short prequel novella that was released for World Book Day, I just had to get it and read ‘where it all started’.

I wish I had loved this novella, but honestly, I was a little bored all the way through. ...more

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Apr 16, 2023 Jennie Winters rated it it was amazing

What a great little prequel to the series! It sets the stage for the GGGTM series perfectly by introducing these characters and their dynamic before Pip began investigating Andie Bell's murder. ...more

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