Rae’s Marginalia

Hey guys! So, I just finally finished the absolute rollercoaster that is the  A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder  trilogy, and honestly, I’m still vibrating. I went into this expecting a subtler mystery, but Holly Jackson really said "hold my coffee" and took me on a journey that was way darker and more twisted than I ever saw coming. If you’ve been seeing these books all over your feed and wondering if the hype is actually real, spoiler alert: it is. I’ve stayed up way too late, ignored my texts, and lived on the edge of my seat for the last week, so I had to sit down and scream-write my thoughts on how this story evolves from a senior project into a total psychological nightmare. If you think you know where Holly Jackson is taking you when you open the first page of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, I promise you, you don’t. What starts as a crisp, addictive amateur sleuthing story eventually spirals into a dark, blood-stained deconstruction of justice that will leave you stari...