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The nice, extremely intelligent Pippa Fitz-Amobi that I admired, related to and ABSOLUTELY ADORED as a character, MURDERED SOMEONE AND FRAMED SOMEONE ELSE FOR IT! Pip is really struggling with PTSD after the events of the ending from book 2, and she's developed a pill problem as a coping mechanism.
Yes, this review contains major spoilers for this book as well as the previous two books in the series. There's one point where you think the story could be over, but then a huge twists sends it spinning off in a whole new direction. I get that the idea was the shock factor you can't really give us unless it's people-we-know-turning-bad, but c'mon! At that point, the book takes a turn in a direction I don't even recognize for this series and its characters. In the book the killer sends Pip cryptic messages asking her “whose gonna look for you when you disappear” and this girl literally counts everyone in her life (Ravi, Connor, Jamie, Nat, Becca , her mom and dad) and is like “i mean i guess they would look for me 👉👈 but would Ravi?Last time, Pip had been the kind of someone who outdid the police in cracking murder and missing person cases.
i always enjoyed holly jackson’s writing style bc of how simple it was and how easy it is to follow. Even if it wouldn’t change the fact that she will face consequences for literally killing someone (again wow, how did she become so morally grey so fast) she’d have a better chance than with what she decided to actually do.
As we approach the ¼ mark in the novel, Pip now genuinely believes that she has a stalker but her parents don’t see the connections that she is seeing blaming the drawings and birds on the local cats and children, Ravi is the only one that believes her and encourages her to go to DI Hawkins even though she doesn’t remotely trust the police anymore. The mass plot twist around half way through that completely ruined my bookish LIFE for the past few years. And, seriously, even if she did not seek help (medical or personal) she was crying out in need of it!
This girl gets kidnapped by the killer and ESCAPES only to come back to MURDER THIS MAN because of her PTSD? As Pip starts to look into who this person might be, she discovers connections that may link her stalker to a local serial killer case purportedly solved six years ago. Pip ends up going down familiar rabbit holes and sees to Harriet, a sister of the one of the victims and learns that she knew Andie Bell and that became friends after her sister died which seems out of character for Andie but it also explains the mystery HH entry in her diary which puzzled Pip before. The tone of this entire story is much darker than the previous two and I feel like some people may not like it as much because of that.she claims she is trying to save him from herself but she is just being a total and utterly horrible narcissist. We follow her trying to deal with the PTSS and her sleeping problem and anxiety trying to sleep and function normal with pills witch is really hurtfull to watch and made me stressed and feel so much for Pip honestly i am happy Holly included this because its important that solving cases and murders isnt all happy i mean i dont believe it is and death can leave scars and give PTSS its realistic and ugly and i love how Holly included that even tho it was very hurtfull to read. So if you are looking for a Young Adult crime thriller, read which has a knotty plotline and a twisted mystery to solve, and which has well-developed characters for whom you can fall in love.
Although I do miss our spunky, happy, and more carefree Pip in books 1-2, I think this book is very realistic in how dark it is. They decide to frame someone else for the murder rather than trying to dispose of the body and Max is the perfect person.At first, my heart ached for her as she felt the need to take sleeping pills, even after her doctor took her off them.
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