Literally. The whole Brushwick (whatever his name was) reveal was a fever dream and didn’t really feel like something that would actually happen. I don’t really see how this 10yo helped lure all these victims that were like 17 and help dispose of their bodies. Would have worked better if he was closer in age to the victims like the case it was based on.

I’m not sure I’m ready for the third book now you say it aha, is the serial killer in book 3 also an awkward pastiche for a real life case?

Is AGAD worth reading if I didn’t like the second one? I also thought the 2nd one was pretty unsatisfying generally- way too much focus on Max Hastings who I didn’t give a shit about. Of all the characters in the first book she could have developed further. Also I thought Pippa profiting off the events with her podcast was nasty and OOC for someone who seemed to strive so hard for morals in the first book. Why did she even put the Reynolds story on public blast when she could have just helped them out of the goodness of her heart lol.

Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson

She investigates the disappearance of her friends brother and finds that he was talking to a strange catfish. It’s really intriguing bc it makes it look like he was involved in something really horrible.

But the most bizarre reveal comes about. Apparently there was some serial killer who murdered teenagers in the 90s with his 10yo son as his accomplice. People were mad that the son didn’t get punished so he was given a new identity. WE HAVE NOT HEARD OF THIS AT ALL! Like we literally only learn the SK existed at all during the reveal in the form of a shitty news article the MC reads. There isn’t even one offhand mention.

The catfish was the sibling of one of the teens who died and is trying to message guys who could possibly be the son as an adult and kill him. The missing guy found out about that and worked out who the son was and attacked him. (not going to get into how unrealistic and theatrical the whole situation is written lol)

The son actually is the asshole racist journalist from the first book, who is now made out to be a tragic hero. Honestly he had a complete personality transplant from the guy who was spewing racism and calling the MC “babes” in book 1 to suddenly being so gracious and polite. There’s not really any point on them being the same character. He locked the missing guy in a cellar so he wouldn’t reveal his identity but is actually really nice you guys and we should feel very sorry that he died.

Where did this bullshit ending come from, Jackson?? The first book in this series was astounding, and the ending was just perfect. The joy of the first book is that you could predict the ending with the clues you had, but no one could have predicted this ending bc it literally came out of left field. So disappointing.