“Hey sarge, remember me?” - Brilliance. The way this whole series came full circle from the first to third book amazes me. Max Hastings, Andie, Becca and Jason Bell. How did Holly Jackson come up with this intertwining spiderweb? Questions over questions.. all I can say is that my mind is truly blown. Can’t wait to pick up the short prequel!

Literally one of the best books I’ve ever read. Holly Jackson is a GENIUS. I‘ll miss Pip and Ravi </3 also nothing angers me more than the fact that Pip can never speak to anyone about who Jason really was and what he did to her because the justice system failed her throughout the series, justice for pip AND THE ENDING HELLO?? I NEED AN EPILOGUE RIGHT NOW.

I was so emotionally invested in this book. It's been written really good. !!Spoiler!! Just the end was a little bit unsatisfying and Pip honestly didn't really feel like the Pip from the 2 previous books. I just think it didn't really fit the Pip we all now to just cut off the contact to Ravi, her family and friends.

4.5! (just changed the rating to 5 stars because i relised that even after almost 4 months i still think about the ending so i think it deserves 5⭐️!) I‘m gonna write a full review later when i processed the ending… hello, i’m back for my review: i liked this book! it made me get in mystery mood really fast and i loved the duct tape killer thing ❤️‍

I loved ‘as good as dead.’ I need to gather my thoughts and try to find the right words. I might change my review multiple times (or not at all). The book was filled with so much anxiety that I paused my music to deal with what was happening. Even though many things were highly immoral, it didn’t stop me from continuing to like Pip and Ravi. Part two escalated completely, and that’s why I liked it even more. And can we talk about the ending??? I love it. Holly Jackson absolutely hooked me. Definitely one of my favorite series. This book will haunt me forever.

Ey das war KRASS! As Good As Dead ist ein absolut gelungener Abschluss für die Reihe. Ich habe das ultra selten, aber während dem Lesen habe ich mich immer wieder dabei ertappt wie ich gerne aufs Ende vorblättern würde, weil ich die Spannung kaum ausgehalten habe und unbedingt wissen wollte wie es endet :o Ich saß so oft da und dachte mir nur „wtf“. Das ganze Buch über, wirklich bis zum Schluss, war ich mir nicht sicher wie es ausgehen wird. Echt richtig richtig gut!!

Brief synopsis: Dead-eyed. Six holes split open inside him. Traumatised. Pip is barely hanging on a thread after Stanley's sudden death. Every corner is haunted by the ghost of Layla Mead and Charlie Green itself. Pip was there when Stanley died and she will always be there. Having to deal Max Hasting's peace treaty is enough to make Pip grown more anxious but not until she received a special message from her stalker. Begins with repetitive anonymous message, a dead pigeon and 5 stick figure on her house drive-away. All headless. Pip knew she's in danger. Someone desperately wanted to kill her and Pip must do all it takes to save herself before someone might actually looking for her when she died. Ahhh....finally reached the last book of the series and what could I say that this was an amazing journey till the end. From reading a clueless Pip investigating about Andie Bell till her trying to cover her own crime case

Wow.. This book is... Wow I first thought this part would go like second book but no. The book was great? YES Was it rollercoaster? Hell yeah Did it kept you awake in the middle of the night? A big YES.. I was first dragging myself till chapters 9-10 i guess but woah from chapter 10-11 the book caught me n I finished it in the whole night. I couldn't take a single break i was nervous curious excited anxious and wanted to slap pip coz she was making a foolish mistake in first part but the way author turned the whole thing my jaw dropped. The turn was not 'U' but the complete f**king double 360. I thought first she will find the killer and exposed it to the world proving DI Hawkins wrong...But woah i was NOT expecting THAT...every title of the books in this series made sense even more after that part. The book is rollercoaster, you will question yourself to ride it or not. It will also give you an insight how the system can work when it is desperate and how an innocence can die in fraction of decisions, and sanity we don't know her here. This book will tell you how to find a killer but it will show you more with how to GET AWAY with killing. Overall this book kept me awake whole night and I am sleep deprived so you know once you get caught you can't stop reading. The perfect final trap set by author for you to spiral down until you reach the end.

Actually speechless at how big of a letdown this one was. I don’t even feel like writing a full on review because I finished it like five minutes ago and I’m still so sad and unsatisfied and disappointed. I really adored the first two books in this series. This one started out quite slow but was still really enjoyable and towards page 100 it was a page-turner just like its predecessors. And then boom. The twist that wasn’t twisting and made absolutely no sense. I don’t even mean the actual twist and turn of events but the way it was handled after? Like I understand why what happened happened but they way it was dealt with? And the whole ending of the book? Literally just confusion. I sit here writing this review and my face is still displaying the utter confusion the last hundred pages have painted on it. I don’t know, I think this is a love it or hate it kind of book, I subjectively didn’t really enjoy it, but that does obviously not mean, you can’t.

"Who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears?" dieses buch ist in vielerlei hinsicht ganz anders als die ersten beiden teile. vor allem aber viel viel dunkler und tiefgründiger. hier geht es nicht um das lustige kleinstadtleben und ein bisschen detektivarbeit eines teenagers. in erster linie geht es hier um pips trauma aus dem zweiten teil. wir sehen wie sie damit umgeht, wie sehr sie damit zu kämpfen hat und wie verstört sie davon ist. uuund diesmal ist niemand geringeres als pip selber in gefahr. und sie muss schnell handeln um sich selber zu retten. "The game had changed.Her against them.Save herself to save herself." und ich sage euch ganz ehrlich, dieses buch ist wirklich heftig und nichts für schwache nerven, weil es wirklich sensible themen anspricht. (TW⚠️: mord, traumata, vergewaltigungen, drogenmissbrauch, entführung, detaillierte beschreibungen) passt bitte immer auf euch auf

Ich hab mich mega auf das Buch gefreut! Natürlich war der Schreibstil mal wieder sehr spannend. Ich muss aber auch sagen, dass ich am Anfang ein wenig enttäuscht war über Pips psychische Wandlung, da sie einfach nicht mehr der Charakter ist, der sie am Anfang in AGGGTM ist. Anderseits muss man sagen, dass es realistischer ist… kein Mensch könnte das durch machen, was Pip durchgemacht hat & sich nicht ändern. Ich fand es sehr gut, dass es in dieser hinsicht realistisch geblieben ist. Zu Beginn war die Stimmung sehr gruselig & am Ende eher aufregend. Dieses Mal habe ich das Ende auf jeden fall 0 erwartet. Mitten im Lesen muss ich allerdings anmerken war ich SEHR enttäuscht, weil die Geschichte sich so stark geändert hat… A good girls guide to murder wäre wohl der bessere Titel für Part 3.

I liked it but like the plot was a bit obvious, I never guessed faster who the Killer was. Also thought that the last part was a bit long-winded. I enjoyed reading though, but the first 2 Books were better. crushed my love for this series little. (PS: I’m not good at writing reviews)

5 ⭐️ Thank you Ms. Holly Jackson for writing my favorite book series! This last one was the perfect ending with its thrilling and gripping storyline. I was never this sad of a book series ending for good but I'm looking forward to the television series which is currently being produced.

Oh boy. Where do I even start? Let's just say this book would've been 50 pages long max if Pip had just gone to therapy. Which leads to the very first reason why I did not like this book at all, i.e. the whole first 100-ish pages. It's basically nothing else than Pip struggling with PTSD (fine (the fact that it's portrayed, not that she's struggling, obv)) and popping one pill after another (not so fine) which she gets from a drug dealer who used to supply the dealer selling roofies to another character who then raped several girls (batshit crazy). If you haven't figured it out yet, my problem is not that Jackson shows us how deeply traumatised Pip is from the events at the end of the last book - I think that is perfectly understandable and honestly, anything else would be totally unrealistic. It's that her behaviour is so utterly out of character, and not because of her PTSD. I usually really appreciate realistic portrayals of mental health struggles, and I know from experience that it can be very hard to seek help. But Pip dropping out of therapy after one session because it didn't show any effects immediately and completely discarding the idea at all in, like, one sentence? I'm calling bullshit. That's not character development, it's completely out of character. While I'm already at that, how the heck did no one of her so-called friends notice that anything was wrong with her? And what about her parents or Ravi? Sure, they seemed to be a bit worried, esp. Pip's mom, but why did they never try to have a meaningful conversation with her about it? How could the whole plot even happen, I mean my girl basically did not sleep for weeks, maybe months?? It just doesn't make any sense??? I'm so confused and frustrated because it's just so STUPID. In terms of literary arrangement, these first 100 pages just seemed to drag on forever. I really struggled to push through. The first book was incredibly fast-paced and I LOVED EVERY SECOND OF IT, the second one was quite good too, but this was just plain boring. I said what I said. So, after it took us approximately forever to actually get into the real plot of the book, it gets a bit better for, say, 150 pages. There is a murder mystery and even a stalker who's after Pip, and esp. this bit stands out as the strongest to me. I was really creeped out by the headless stick figures and the scene with the speakers and the printer. Damn, I really shouldn't have read this in the middle of the night with a storm raging outside. For me, this even made up for the fact that I knew very early on who the culprit was - or maybe that's simply because I expected the author to pull one of her typical plot twists in the last third of the book. But then I got to part two, and that's when things went completely downhill. I'm not going to go into too much detail here, but she kills her stalker, who is also a serial killer trying to make her his next victim. Yep, you've read that correctly. Listen, if the characters and especially Pip had been portrayed in a different way for the past two books, I might have gotten behind this storyline. I can definitely see why Holly Jackson came up with it. Trauma can obviously change you in a very drastic way, and she really hammered the point home that Pip had lost even the tiniest bit of faith in the (criminal) justice system - which is perfectly understandable! But this whole How to Get Away With Murder-esque plot felt extremely construed to me. 1. Pip acts extremely dumb in some parts of this book. If your stalker who you're quite sure is also a serial killer trying to murder you calls you while you're already on a fairly secluded street, WHY THE HECK DO YOU CONTINUE WALKING DOWN THAT ROAD INTO THE WOODS WHILE IT'S GETTING DARK? INSTEAD OF JUST STAYING AT LEAST IN THE VICINITY OF YOUR FRIEND'S HOUSE WHERE YOU ALREADY WERE? If somebody understands, please explain it to me because Book 1 & 2 Pip would NEVER. She might've been a bit reckless, but not downright stupid like that. Which is why it hurts so much to write that, because I’ve absolutely adored Pip so far - she's smart, empathetic, yet relatable. She would've been perfect if not for this literary garbage can aka this book. 2. A major reason why Pip decides to kill her almost-killer is that she's convinced nobody would believe her, especially not the police, but also her parents since she tried to talk to her mum about her suspicion of having a stalker at the beginning of the book. Again, this would have been plausible enough for me if not the whole "You're overreacting" blah blah by her mum had been completely out of character too. I mean, we're talking about the woman who was pissed at Pip for taking on the Jamie Reynolds case in the second book, worrying that it might be too much for Pip (and also too dangerous). So why would she be completely unbothered if Pip herself suspected that somebody was after her? Also, why did Pip not try talking to her Dad? They seem to have a really strong bond, it doesn't make any sense to me as to why she wouldn't have tried talking to him. Oh, and keep in mind that she approached her mum in the very beginning of the book where the threats were still only loosely connected to her. They got a whole lot more specific, so if she'd tried again, I'm pretty sure her mum would have believed her by then?? I know that it's a big problem that too many victims of stalking are believed too late, and I appreciate that Holly Jackson tried to incorporate this issue, but it doesn't make sense character-wise. 3. Pip employs all of her friends to help her cover up the murder by framing Max Hastings. Even Ravi, whose OWN BROTHER was framed for murder and subsequently killed. And they're all totally fine with it. I kid you not. This point has already been pointed out in more detail by another reviewer, but I couldn't leave out the whole ridiculousness of this storyline. 4. In retrospect, I couldn't for the life of me tell you how this part took up almost half of the entire book. I really can't. It's so boring because almost nothing goes awry, there's literally zero suspension here. Only in the last 50 pages the reader gets to know - surprise, surprise - that Pip in fact did not manage to pull off the perfect cover up because a substantial piece of evidence linking her to the victim is found in the latter's house. At this point, I was almost convinced she was going to kill the investigating DI too in order to cover up all of her tracks since he rightfully starts to suspect her. But no, in the end of course everyone falls for her ruse and the wrong guy is imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. Yes, what he did was absolutely vile and horrible and I hate his guts, but idk if this sends the best message? If you can't get them for rape, get them for murder, who cares if he really did it? I would have found it a whole lot more satisfying if Pip had managed to find a way to re-open the investigation into Max Hastings so that he would be rightfully sentenced. The way he got behind bars is a big fat ick to me, and I don't think this is a satisfying conclusion for his victims. There is probably more to this book which I did not like, but these are the most important points. I'm really sad because I loved the series so far and wanted it to end with a bang. If you have similar expectations for this book, please do yourself a favour and do not read it. I will now have to resort to making up the wildest fake scenarios in order to come up with a better end, and it's going to be exhausting, so please spare yourself that kind of trouble.

Ich habe die ersten beiden Bände der Reihe so sehr geliebt, nicht nur wegen der unfassbar spannenden Geschichten, sondern auch wegen der tollen Charaktere - allen voran Pip und Ravi. Dass die Autorin genau diesen Aspekt des Buches nun im Finale gegen die Wand fährt, habe ich nicht erwartet und es hat mir vieles an dieser Reihe kaputt gemacht. Ich werde einfach die ersten zwei Teile im Herzen behalten und diesen ganz schnell vergessen!