What I Read: June

Guess who's back, back again. It's me, I'm back with my first What I Read for a while. April and May weren't the best reading months for me and I wanted to make June different. It took me til halfway through the month to pick up not one but two books and whilst they're both good, this one had me hooked and I couldn't put it down.

A Good Girl's Guide To Murder is Holly Jackson's debut novel and for a debut novel, it's absolutely amazing. Centred around schoolgirl Pip who's doing her own investigation into the murder of Andie Bell five years ago, this novel has you hooked from the get go and only continues to deliver twists and turns the further into the case you delve. For a young adult murder mystery, this novel delves into a lot of adult themes that easily made me forget I was reading a YA novel. There was so much tension as the novel came to a close and I eagerly stayed up longer than I should have to finish it, even if there were a couple of moments that brought tears to my eyes and that's a very occurrence when it comes to books.

I don't want to give too much about the plot away as I don't want to spoil it for anyone who plans on reading this. All I am going to say is that this book had me hooked from the moment I picked it up and that's something that hasn't happened with books recently from me. I can't wait to read more from Holly Jackson and I'm still shocked that this was her debut novel, it was written beautifully and easily felt as if this was her fourth or fifth book. If you haven't already got this on your TBR, then I highly recommend that you add it. You won't be disappointed.