review of A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder by Holly Jackson
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Course
Engels
Level
VWO / Gymnasium
Book
A Good Girl\'s Guide to Murder
this document is a book report/book review of the book A Good Girl's Guide To Murder by Holly Jackson. it's a 420 word review starting with the writer then a short summary then I'll talk about the style and include quotes from the book (with page numbers) and my own opinion at the end
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A review of A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder by Holly Jackson
A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder is a the opportunity to research about
young adult mystery novel written by what happened years ago looking for
Holly Jackson. Holly is 30 years old the truth.
and she lives in London. Not only she
enjoys reading and writing books, but ‘I just have to keep chasing, even
she also likes watching true crime when the path is resisting me.’ (p
documentaries so she can pretend to 144)
be a detective. A Good Girl’s Guide
To Murder is her first novel. Not only was A Good Girl’s Guide To
Murder a fun and interesting book to
Pippa, the main character, is a 17- read, but it also showed serious topics
year-old girl in her last school year. such as racism and drug use, which
She is an A-level student that loves are real problems in life.
studying. For her EPQ ‘Extended The writing style is so good and
Project Qualification’, a project she detailed. The combination of the usual
must do for school and can choose narration, the recorded interviews and
whatever topic she wants, Pippa Pippa’s recorded thoughts in her
decides to research about something logbook make the book unique and
happened five years ago. Andie a 17- more exciting. There are also pictures
year-old girl went missing and a few of mind maps, text messages and
days later her boyfriend Sal was street maps, which are very clever and
found in the woods after he took his keep the story clear.
life. Sal was 18 years old, all the
evidence showed that he murdered A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder is a
Andie. Though the body was never really good page-turner, with mind-
found, she was legally declared dead blowing turns and twists that keeps
after a specific amount of time. the book exciting till the last page.
“I don’t think your brother did it – If you enjoy suspenseful mystery
and I’m going to try to prove it.” books, A Good Girl’s Guide To
(p 14) Murder is not one to miss!
Pip who was 12 years old at the time Written by Nancy
has met Sal multiple times at her best 420 words
friend Clara’s house. That’s because
Sal was friend with Clara’s sister
Naomi. Sal was always nice to Pip
and have helped her on different
occasions. She never thought of him
as someone who is capable of doing
anyone else harm. Years later she gets
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