Good Girl, Bad Blood came out on 30th April this year, and I finished reading it by 3rd of May. Yes, I love this series that much! I have procrastinated on writing this review for a long time, so anyway here it is.
Detective stories are my favorites when I read fiction. I can’t say I have read too much fiction but most of the fictions I’ve read are from this category. Other detective stories I have read, most of them take place in the past, like: Tin Goyenda, Feluda, Sherlock Holmes, Poirot, etc. This series is the first which takes place in the contemporary world of mine. This made this series relatable and much more enjoyable for me.
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is the first book of this series. I came across this book through my Goodreads recommendations. I read this book in June last year. After that I was waiting for the next book of this series.
The author did a awesome job with the first book GGGM. I love they way she used to describe the thinking process of the protagonist. The protagonist Pip, was doing a school project in the story on murder case that was closed five years ago. We get to know what is going inside Pip’s head from the journal she writes for her school project. This thing I think is a excellent way to write a detective story. Different detective story writer uses different techniques to inform the readers how the protagonist is solving the mystery. My favorite technique was the one Holly Jackson used in GGGM.
After GGGM I was skeptical if Holly Jackson could keep the same quality in this series. And Guess what? She did better! I would say the second book, GGBB is 2x better than the first one. In this one protagonist Pip starts a podcast. Now this is Holly Jackson’s way to let readers know how Pip is solving the mystery. This was really creative way to solve to do it as school project’s journal wasn’t an option for the second book.
I heard there are two more books left in this series. I wonder what surprise HJ has for us in those.
Most of the chapters are about philosophical paradoxes.There are a few chapters where Sajid talks about science and that’s where it interests me.
Although in the book Sajid says those things, in reality those are actually the author’s arguments. If you try to categorize this book, it falls more under non-fiction genre than fiction. Therefore, it was author’s responsibility to fact check everything and give proper references.
Some of the misinformation that I have noticed in that last chapter:
1. Humans Evolved from Chimpanzees
Sajid says “Evolutionists say that one animal evolves to other gradually. They say, We, humans, came from chimpanzees by gradually evolving”.
No! No ‘evolutionist’ says that we evolved from chimpanzees. Rather, they say humans and chimpanzees shared a common ancestor.
2. No Missing Link Found
Sajid says “No missing link has been found to this day” (referring to ‘missing links’ in fossil records).
Maybe the author is not up-to-date with the latest information, maybe he is reading really old books (if any), but yes many so called ‘missing links’ have been found. Even if those ‘missing links’ were not to be found, that does not disapproves the theory of evolution.
Here’s just a paragraph from Richard Dawkins’ book:
3. Several Hundred Billion Years Old Fossil
He talks about a fossil named ‘Piltdown Man’ from England. He says carbon dating has revealed that the fossil is only 600 years old which scientists previously claimed to be several hundred billion years old (in his words).
Dear Mr. Arif Azad, the universe is only about 14 billion years old. No scientist would ever claim that a fossil found on earth to be several hundred billion years old.
Could it be he wrote billion instead of million mistakenly? Still, it doesn’t make sense, there’s no way a fossil like that one could exist from hundreds of million years ago.
. . .
I won’t judge how well written it is in the previous chapters, one chapter full of misinformation is enough to give it lowest possible rating.
I give it 1 out of 5.
This book sets an example why some Facebook posts shouldn’t put together into a book. (Yes, he actually started writing these stories in his Facebook page and later it became a book)
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