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I was so close to give two stars but I added half star just for the last page and my devoted love for Ravi! Long story short, Pip finds out the identity of the actual murderer, when he manages to abduct her and plans to make her his sixth victim. There’s nothing this stupid character would no longer be willing to refrain from doing out of selfishness, maliciousness, and hate. Pip might, I don’t know, not have tried to frame her murder on an innocent character, however sleazy.
I do not think the audience is supposed to sympathize with Pip, but I’m not sure what the point of the book was overall besides totally destroying these characters we’ve grown to love.it showed that the justice system rlly was flawed and sometimes you need to take things into your own hands. Either way, I applaud the author for covering some difficult topics, and respect her decision to finish out this series in the way she envisioned it. In books 1 and 2, we follow Pip as she investigates, talks to suspects, gathers clues, and makes deductions.
in the beginning, pip was attempting to save herself after everything that she has gone through and her life was becoming consumed in trying to save herself. 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. The witty banter between our leading lady and Ravi sustains me in a way that few fictional couples can manage, and while I appreciate the darker turn that the end of book 2 made, I still feel like this one went in a direction that undermines the foundation of who these characters are in the first 2/3 of the series.The courage Jackson had to subvert the conventions of the detective fiction – we should be courageous even if in this case, it really did not work for me. It was 1 am when i finished this while i had to get up very early the next day aka now and this was that kinda book that i just needed to finish no matter what aka the best books. While i liked the series overall, this is definitely my least favorite in the series and, again… it just felt like a complete 180.
The opening to As Good As Dead was interesting as we learn that Pip hasn’t been dealing well with Stanley’s death and is suffered from PTSD over the incident but this only the beginning.
Would highly recommend if you like reading about : murder, investigation, "how to get away with a murder" vibe, thrilling plot. I am going to say very little about the ending of the novel because it was a mind-blowing way to end a mind-blowing series and I am a little sad it is all over but at this point Pip and Ravi have been through enough and I am glad the author knew when to end the series. The whole aftermath with Pip covering up the story and turning into her evil alter ego was jarring but actually pretty interesting to read. with this book, it takes a completely different turn, given she has completely lost herself, and has become this paranoid person who cannot sleep and has so much pressure on her.
But it was still not the ending I was expecting and not the conclusion for my highly appraised series! Why would he assist her in becoming just like Elliott Ward, the man who murdered his brother and disgraced his name? 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! Yup, it’s really too bad that that was the ending to the series, which in all other respects was SO good!No, not a lead, a lifeline: some strange unknowable force connecting them across time, though they’d never met. Nah THIS is the best one in the series, it was sick, twisted, horrifying, intense and so worth reading. And I think the reason Ravi helped pip was 1- He loved her 2- He wanted to get revenge on max for lying to the police in agggtm and getting away with what he did.
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