Kill Joy: The YA mystery thriller prequel and companion novella to the bestselling A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder trilogy. TikTok made me buy it!

If you've had a scroll through my previous reviews you'll see that I loved A Good Girl's Guide to Murder. It was my first experience of reading a YA Mystery and I was so enthralled by it that I binge read it. I have the sequel Good Girl, Bad Blood on my bookshelf waiting for me to pick it up and the final(?) book As Good as Dead on preorder. That's how good A Good Girl's Guide to Murder was for me. I'm committed to the series and the main character Pip. So you can imagine, when I saw that for World Book Day, Holly Jackson had wrote a short prequel, Kill Joy, that takes place quite literally just before AGGGTM. That I had to have it and it didn't disappoint. This book is a tiny 124, so really quite to read. It's packed with Holly's signature engaging writing style and gives us the Pip we all know and love. Holly has also written it, in a way that the trilogy won't be ruined by reading it. So you can read this first, get a taster for some of the characters and go into the series without spoilers. Which I love. In so few pages, Holly has also done a great job of introducing Pip and her friends, clearly showing their personalities and connections. It feels exactly like a teenagers murder mystery party. The murder mystery aspect is quite engaging and I can't fault the way it all penned out. Having read AGGGTM, I sat there thinking "Yes, this is how it would be". I don't want to say to much on this one, as it is such a short book. It's so definitely worth the read. It's fun, light and brings you into Pip's world and draws you into the series, which everyone needs to read btw. I'm conscious this isn't much of a review, but I really don't want to spoil it. There's nothing I didn't like. I love Holly's writing style, it's impossible not to love Pip and just back her. The characters are well thought out and formed. It's an all round winner for me.

I find short stories can be really hit or miss, but this was brilliant. The short page count didn't do this a diesservice at all, and the premise really fits the Good Girls Guide to Murder world. We follow Pip at a murder mystery themed dinner party, where her thirst for the truth truly begins.

Great read. Prequel to the Good Girls Guide to Murder series, explains Pip’s backstory and motivations Honestly it was a bit short for my liking and still wasn’t a great explanation but was fun to read

After reading all of a good girls guide to murders books and only reading this one after, I must say it really is worth it especially the exclusive look into Pip’s life before her first case.

This is a prequel novella. So a very quick read and yet I struggled with it. I have enjoyed all of Holly Jackson’s book but this was extremely boring. I’m glad I never read this first as I don’t think I would have read any of her books

I LOVED THIS!!! This is one hundred percent a must read for fans of the series. As if I wasn't obsessed enough with this series, Holly just had to give us this juicy insight into the origins of Pip's interest of the Andie Bell case. It was so fun, and Pip's reveal at the end of the murder mystery party was insane, it really just shows how incredible her mind is, and that it was inevitable that she would go on to solve the Andie Bell case in the first book A Good Girls Guide to Murder. Even though, we knew it was just a game, some moments had me tricked so well, I honestly thought something really bad was about to happen it was so suspenseful! I felt myself holding my breath at one point.

Quick and easy read, set before the Good Girl Guide series

This was the first book I have ever read by Holly Jackson and Kill Joy definitely had the snowball affect for reading the rest of the series. Kill Joy is the prequel in the Good Girl’s Guide To Murder series. I picked it up for £1 on Amazon as it was a release for world book day which I thought was pretty good going and worse case scenario, I lost a pound. I didn’t lose a pound, I got hooked on a storyline. As it is only 124 pages long this is a relative quick read and I finished it within a day. Kill Joy definitely grips you enough to want to carry on with the rest of the series. Especially, if like me, you haven’t read them yet. I quite enjoyed trying to play along with the murder mystery trying to work out which character had committed the murder which was the main basis of the plot. I often find that an author’s writing style puts me off of a book however I found that I really enjoyed Holly Jackson’s writing style. Plus I really liked seeing the images of the clues from the murder mystery throughout the book! I would defintiely recommend this book if you like young adult books, especially something that is a quick easy read. www.staceylipowski.com

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Spannend boek, ik was al fan door a rood girls guide to murder.

it was a good book in my opinion, i really enjoyed it

read it in 1 hour you should deffo read it before the agggtm series