How she treated her mother when she returned home floored me. I understand you don’t want to live in her shadow and how it affected you being the missing woman’s daughter. But to say you wish she’d just disappear again after she gets home is low. I’ve been a nanny for 10 years and I’ve seen milestones in kids lives with the parents and I can 100% see where Rachel was coming from with wanting to have quality time with her make her food she liked knowing her hobbies and taking interest in her life. Big bonding moments for Rachel were viewed as inconveniences for Bel. I wanted to slap her around a bit not gonna lie, coming from someone who’s partner is cynical and misanthropic
This is exactly how I felt!! She was so ungrateful and treated every kindness from Rachel as something that had an ulterior motive. Like girl she just wants to know you since she’s been trapped for fifteen years 🤦🏻♀️
honestly yall just want perfect characters that arent realistic at all bel was really well written and she has her own flaws so idk why yall want her to do what yall wouldve done she literally thought her whole life her mom abandoned her and suddenly her mom pulls up like imagine how shocked she was adn it took her a while to process
@@shutuplease08that’s just how some of us feel 🤷🏻♀️ that’s the great part about having opinions and finding people who share yours so you can discuss.
@@shutuplease08 I just said how I felt about her interaction with her mother not my overall thoughts on her as a person nor my opinion and how it changed after she finds out how her father manipulated her. I agree that she’s extremely well written and everything was set up perfectly to that moment she called Rachel mom. These two statements can be true at the same time as Jackson also wrote her to be unlikeable initially
Didn’t ash stop recording before they opened up the truck? Also I was kind of stuck on the fact they kept telling Sherry that Jeff was waiting for her and obviously he wasn’t. It was crazy giving Sherry the idea her new life with Jeff will be okay. Like idk didn’t sit right with me
I feel like I read when Bel was confessing to her mother that she was investigating her, she said that Ash had footage of Charlie but I could be wrong! And yeahhh it didn’t sit well with me either. Like Carter hated Sherry enough to just let that happen? Seemed kinda iffy to me.
@@heididischlerYeah. I was kinda confused on how someone could realistically leave the person who raised them for 15 years behind just because they're not blood related and they met their biological mom like 4 weeks ago. That whole Sherry thing was weird
I had the similar feeling. I knew it was her dad from the first 5 chapters and the rest of the book was just waiting to see how who was his collaborator. So watching Bel dig her heals and bark up the wrong three for the biggest part of the book was so tedious. I like the nail baiting chase at the end. Everything that come after that wrapped up to easily though. Sherry just following blackmail orders and Carter happily letting go of the only parents she knew. Documentary folks happily forgoing months of filming cost. And the trio living with such a huge family secret that they had no one to talk about but each other. Like all three of them would need boatloads of therapy to process what happened but due to them hiding the evidence, none of them would have the opportunity to ever process it and would live with this massive secret. First third of the book: 2/5 Middle of the book: 3/5 Finale: 5/5 Resolution: 2/5
The thing I didn't like about the book was how carter just abandoned her mother like I just don't think someone could so instantly not choose a person who they spent their life with, the perso who raised them, that seemed off to me, like really? And the last part of Ramsey also set me off
I did find it kind of weird that Carter could just abandon the person she called mom for her whole life, but I have a really good relationship with my mom, so I can’t relate to that much. Also, their whole fam was crazy, so that’s the only thing that made it feel a little more believable 😂😂. Not to mention, Carter had to be in like four different stages of shock after all the things that went down 👀.
i actually liked that bel was kind of a bad person! i feel like usually protagonists have too many similarities. i like that she has flaws. im a fast reader, but even i felt it was a bit slow. wasnt too bad though! i predicted it was charlie from the first chapter, but i doubted myself throughout the story. 4/5 ⭐️
I finished this book in ONE SITTING its one of the best things iv ever read ❤my only thing is i wish she told ash and i wish the ending felt a bit more ending like but i think that just me being sad it ended 😂 😭
I just finished this book today and was searching RUclips for reviews to see if anyone felt the same way I did. SO glad I found your review because I know I’m not alone, thank you! (“Dollar Store Ravi,” that is SO TRUE 😂😂😂!)
Oh, and YEP, I agree- that weird cover up… just tell the police, that was RIDICULOUS. (Apologies for processing all my frustration over this book in your comments section 😂!)
Hahaha I’m glad you enjoyed the review 😂😂 a lot of this book just didn’t make sense to me and I loved the ending except for the weird cover up. The rest of the book was just meh lol
1.) I hate that they don’t acknowledge Sherry not letting Carter eat. The only one who does is Rachel, and it’s viewed as her trying to manipulate Carter. It’s concern! And Bel, who’s supposed to be the one who knows Carter best, doesn’t notice it at all! 2.) Ash was too good for Bel. I agree with you completely on that. 3.) Did Patrick get his medicine?! I was really just… bothered by those things. I remembered loving the A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder Series (until the second half of As Good As Dead) and Five Survive, and I read this book in two days with high hopes. It just made me kind of sad.
Omg the second half of As Good As Dead ruined the whole series for me 😭😭. And yes, this book had so many flaws I just couldn’t overlook unfortunately 🙃. Definitely not something I’d think about reading a second time.
@@heididischler I know! They really could’ve called the police, especially since the detectives figured out Jason was DT afterwards. And, there would’ve been evidence, like Pip’s headphones and the fact that he died before he could’ve cleaned anything up. And what they did to Max- which, yes, he should be in jail- was exactly what Cara’s dad did to Sal! Sorry if this is long, I have so many issues with that book.
Basically, 2/3 of the book was spent giving exposition and "im so mad and suspicious of my mother, and I hate her for that" content. And the last third, for me atleast, was like everything else was forgotton, and it felt really rushed. Like how could Carter just let her grandma go like that after she's been her mom(like without a doubt actual mom) for 15 years. It just seems so off and I agree with many comments like the part where Ash is just there to be bullied and that the romance was completely "wrong", or giving sherry the fake idea that jeff is waiting in Canada. Overall, I would rate this book 2.5/5, a bit worse than Good girl bad blood in imo (which for me was a 3, with agggtm and agad being straight up 5/5 and 4.5/5). I'd love to discuss tho
Yes!! This one was disappointing in my opinion and definitely felt rushed towards the end (I kinda had that “what the heck just happened” feeling lol). I absolutely loved AGGGTM (5/5 for sure!!). Good Girl, Bad Blood was still pretty good in my opinion but I really didn’t like the last book 😔. I just felt like Pip’s character took a complete turn into something she just never was. But I have a lot of people disagree with me on this 😂🙈.
I suggest reading Echoes by Alice Reeds... it's so good! And yes, as a 16 year-old girl I get that she went through traumatic things and she's a teenager, she can be moody and be suspicious of everything but it she's was indeed so mean especially to her mom...almost like most of the book is just hating her mom and the ending I was weirded out too..like why can't they tell the police...
I just added that book to my Goodreads!! And yeahh, I really wish it could’ve been, okay, let’s go to the police now because we literally did nothing wrong and only acted in self-defense 😂. It was so dumb imo.
I dnfed a bit beyond 25% because I could tell I wouldn't like it, I could also tell that the ending and the twists would be over the top. I also HATED Five Survive and was hoping this would be half as good as AGGGTM but alas !
This is the same way that I feel!! I stuck through it so I could review it hoping that it would be like AGGGTM but it did not live up to that expectation unfortunately 😩
I was also hoping that they were actually forgetful and it’s a symptom of paranoiaaa ! That’s why Bel was acting sooo suspicious and that would explain why Rachel disappeared and thought someone was following her 🤣 oh well
I don’t know it was just so slow to me 😩 I really wanted to like it because I loved Holly Jackon’s AGGGTM series, but it just didn’t hit the mark for me.
I tried to read this but stopped at around chapter 15. Just found the book difficult to read and Bel was unbearable. I also didn't like the repetitiveness on writing like with the knot in Bel's gut. I started to actually groan every time it came up. I found your video after trying to search for a summary of all that happens which has been tough but I'm happy to have found you review with spoilers. Based on what you said, just seems like a lot is going on and idk if i still understand it all lol I just felt like the book wasn't worth the suffering trying to read it to find out what happens. This was my first book to read from this author as well
This is definitely not her best work, so go read A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder!!! That one is my fav but none of her other books have lived up to it unfortunately. The only reason I stuck this one out was to make this review tbh 😂😂 glad it’s helped someone!!
I don’t know if this was just me but I didn’t like the ending personally because I felt like they justified murder??? I don’t know like I understand the situation they were in but also murder is still murder you know? It left kind of an icky feel inside me
This is how As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson makes me feel!!! In this one, I didn’t feel like they were justifying murder as much as just being dumb about it 🙄😂 like, girl, no need to cover it up. It was legitimately self defense. Call the police like a normal person 😂🤦🏻♀️
Literally so awful!!! This is a spoiler but it made me feel soooo freaking bad for the mom because this woman is legitimately just trying to recover from her trauma and her daughter is a little demon 😭😂🙈
@@heididischler i think it's cause she knew and trusted them as her father took care of her while carter was her support system. She didn't trust Rachel since she never knew her and found how her tiny slipups a bit weird and somewhat suspicious since she never knew or trusted as she is new and is quite literally acting weird and jittery Edit: But its a speculation though so don't take it seriously
Honestly, with Five Survive and The Reappearance of Rachel Price, I really only finished them because I liked A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder so much. These were very disappointing in comparison.
How she treated her mother when she returned home floored me. I understand you don’t want to live in her shadow and how it affected you being the missing woman’s daughter. But to say you wish she’d just disappear again after she gets home is low. I’ve been a nanny for 10 years and I’ve seen milestones in kids lives with the parents and I can 100% see where Rachel was coming from with wanting to have quality time with her make her food she liked knowing her hobbies and taking interest in her life. Big bonding moments for Rachel were viewed as inconveniences for Bel. I wanted to slap her around a bit not gonna lie, coming from someone who’s partner is cynical and misanthropic
This is exactly how I felt!! She was so ungrateful and treated every kindness from Rachel as something that had an ulterior motive. Like girl she just wants to know you since she’s been trapped for fifteen years 🤦🏻♀️
honestly yall just want perfect characters that arent realistic at all bel was really well written and she has her own flaws so idk why yall want her to do what yall wouldve done she literally thought her whole life her mom abandoned her and suddenly her mom pulls up like imagine how shocked she was adn it took her a while to process
@@shutuplease08that’s just how some of us feel 🤷🏻♀️ that’s the great part about having opinions and finding people who share yours so you can discuss.
@@shutuplease08 I just said how I felt about her interaction with her mother not my overall thoughts on her as a person nor my opinion and how it changed after she finds out how her father manipulated her. I agree that she’s extremely well written and everything was set up perfectly to that moment she called Rachel mom. These two statements can be true at the same time as Jackson also wrote her to be unlikeable initially
She thought she was lying tho and that she had kidnapped her dad and Rachel wasn’t doing much to discourage the theory tbh
Didn’t ash stop recording before they opened up the truck? Also I was kind of stuck on the fact they kept telling Sherry that Jeff was waiting for her and obviously he wasn’t. It was crazy giving Sherry the idea her new life with Jeff will be okay. Like idk didn’t sit right with me
I feel like I read when Bel was confessing to her mother that she was investigating her, she said that Ash had footage of Charlie but I could be wrong! And yeahhh it didn’t sit well with me either. Like Carter hated Sherry enough to just let that happen? Seemed kinda iffy to me.
@@heididischlerYeah. I was kinda confused on how someone could realistically leave the person who raised them for 15 years behind just because they're not blood related and they met their biological mom like 4 weeks ago. That whole Sherry thing was weird
same here
I just finished reading it today cant wait to see your review personally loved it
I had the similar feeling. I knew it was her dad from the first 5 chapters and the rest of the book was just waiting to see how who was his collaborator.
So watching Bel dig her heals and bark up the wrong three for the biggest part of the book was so tedious.
I like the nail baiting chase at the end. Everything that come after that wrapped up to easily though.
Sherry just following blackmail orders and Carter happily letting go of the only parents she knew. Documentary folks happily forgoing months of filming cost. And the trio living with such a huge family secret that they had no one to talk about but each other.
Like all three of them would need boatloads of therapy to process what happened but due to them hiding the evidence, none of them would have the opportunity to ever process it and would live with this massive secret.
First third of the book: 2/5
Middle of the book: 3/5
Finale: 5/5
Resolution: 2/5
Omg I love how you broke the books up to rate it and I honestly couldn’t agree more with everything you said and your ratings!!
The thing I didn't like about the book was how carter just abandoned her mother like I just don't think someone could so instantly not choose a person who they spent their life with, the perso who raised them, that seemed off to me, like really?
And the last part of Ramsey also set me off
Sherry was also willing to give up her daughter with almost no conflicts, kinda suggests what kind of mother she was
I did find it kind of weird that Carter could just abandon the person she called mom for her whole life, but I have a really good relationship with my mom, so I can’t relate to that much. Also, their whole fam was crazy, so that’s the only thing that made it feel a little more believable 😂😂. Not to mention, Carter had to be in like four different stages of shock after all the things that went down 👀.
i actually liked that bel was kind of a bad person! i feel like usually protagonists have too many similarities. i like that she has flaws. im a fast reader, but even i felt it was a bit slow. wasnt too bad though! i predicted it was charlie from the first chapter, but i doubted myself throughout the story.
4/5 ⭐️
i rated it 4/5 but i would've loved to see more of bel and ash's romance ✨
Real!! It's like we need a spin off!
@@maisiecwardo books have spinoffs?! i didn't know that lol
I finished this book in ONE SITTING its one of the best things iv ever read ❤my only thing is i wish she told ash and i wish the ending felt a bit more ending like but i think that just me being sad it ended 😂 😭
I just finished this book today and was searching RUclips for reviews to see if anyone felt the same way I did. SO glad I found your review because I know I’m not alone, thank you! (“Dollar Store Ravi,” that is SO TRUE 😂😂😂!)
Oh, and YEP, I agree- that weird cover up… just tell the police, that was RIDICULOUS. (Apologies for processing all my frustration over this book in your comments section 😂!)
Hahaha I’m glad you enjoyed the review 😂😂 a lot of this book just didn’t make sense to me and I loved the ending except for the weird cover up. The rest of the book was just meh lol
1.) I hate that they don’t acknowledge Sherry not letting Carter eat. The only one who does is Rachel, and it’s viewed as her trying to manipulate Carter. It’s concern! And Bel, who’s supposed to be the one who knows Carter best, doesn’t notice it at all!
2.) Ash was too good for Bel. I agree with you completely on that.
3.) Did Patrick get his medicine?!
I was really just… bothered by those things. I remembered loving the A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder Series (until the second half of As Good As Dead) and Five Survive, and I read this book in two days with high hopes. It just made me kind of sad.
Omg the second half of As Good As Dead ruined the whole series for me 😭😭. And yes, this book had so many flaws I just couldn’t overlook unfortunately 🙃. Definitely not something I’d think about reading a second time.
@@heididischler I know! They really could’ve called the police, especially since the detectives figured out Jason was DT afterwards. And, there would’ve been evidence, like Pip’s headphones and the fact that he died before he could’ve cleaned anything up. And what they did to Max- which, yes, he should be in jail- was exactly what Cara’s dad did to Sal! Sorry if this is long, I have so many issues with that book.
@@AstaoftheEclipseYESSS!!! This is exactly what I always say but no one understands 😭😭😭 like this was just NOT who Pip was and it ruined me lolol
@@heididischler They could’ve summoned Phoenix Wright to defend her in court, and it would’ve made more sense lol
Basically, 2/3 of the book was spent giving exposition and "im so mad and suspicious of my mother, and I hate her for that" content. And the last third, for me atleast, was like everything else was forgotton, and it felt really rushed. Like how could Carter just let her grandma go like that after she's been her mom(like without a doubt actual mom) for 15 years. It just seems so off and I agree with many comments like the part where Ash is just there to be bullied and that the romance was completely "wrong", or giving sherry the fake idea that jeff is waiting in Canada. Overall, I would rate this book 2.5/5, a bit worse than Good girl bad blood in imo (which for me was a 3, with agggtm and agad being straight up 5/5 and 4.5/5). I'd love to discuss tho
Yes!! This one was disappointing in my opinion and definitely felt rushed towards the end (I kinda had that “what the heck just happened” feeling lol). I absolutely loved AGGGTM (5/5 for sure!!). Good Girl, Bad Blood was still pretty good in my opinion but I really didn’t like the last book 😔. I just felt like Pip’s character took a complete turn into something she just never was. But I have a lot of people disagree with me on this 😂🙈.
I suggest reading Echoes by Alice Reeds... it's so good! And yes, as a 16 year-old girl I get that she went through traumatic things and she's a teenager, she can be moody and be suspicious of everything but it she's was indeed so mean especially to her mom...almost like most of the book is just hating her mom and the ending I was weirded out too..like why can't they tell the police...
I just added that book to my Goodreads!!
And yeahh, I really wish it could’ve been, okay, let’s go to the police now because we literally did nothing wrong and only acted in self-defense 😂. It was so dumb imo.
I dnfed a bit beyond 25% because I could tell I wouldn't like it, I could also tell that the ending and the twists would be over the top. I also HATED Five Survive and was hoping this would be half as good as AGGGTM but alas !
This is the same way that I feel!! I stuck through it so I could review it hoping that it would be like AGGGTM but it did not live up to that expectation unfortunately 😩
I was also hoping that they were actually forgetful and it’s a symptom of paranoiaaa ! That’s why Bel was acting sooo suspicious and that would explain why Rachel disappeared and thought someone was following her 🤣 oh well
That’s exactly what I thought at first 😂😂😂
I gave it a 2/5! Should be at least 50% shorter lol ! This is more a novella than a novel
If def didn’t need to be as long as it was considering how boring a lot of it was 🥴
Yall why everyone in the comments hating the book and characters had flaws but so does everyone else 😭
I don’t know it was just so slow to me 😩 I really wanted to like it because I loved Holly Jackon’s AGGGTM series, but it just didn’t hit the mark for me.
I tried to read this but stopped at around chapter 15. Just found the book difficult to read and Bel was unbearable. I also didn't like the repetitiveness on writing like with the knot in Bel's gut. I started to actually groan every time it came up. I found your video after trying to search for a summary of all that happens which has been tough but I'm happy to have found you review with spoilers. Based on what you said, just seems like a lot is going on and idk if i still understand it all lol I just felt like the book wasn't worth the suffering trying to read it to find out what happens. This was my first book to read from this author as well
This is definitely not her best work, so go read A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder!!! That one is my fav but none of her other books have lived up to it unfortunately. The only reason I stuck this one out was to make this review tbh 😂😂 glad it’s helped someone!!
@@heididischler I just wasn't ready to commit to a series so it is why I read a standalone book instead 😅
I don’t know if this was just me but I didn’t like the ending personally because I felt like they justified murder??? I don’t know like I understand the situation they were in but also murder is still murder you know? It left kind of an icky feel inside me
This is how As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson makes me feel!!! In this one, I didn’t feel like they were justifying murder as much as just being dumb about it 🙄😂 like, girl, no need to cover it up. It was legitimately self defense. Call the police like a normal person 😂🤦🏻♀️
I’m so glad someone finally had the same take about Bel I couldn’t finish it because she was actually awful
Literally so awful!!!
This is a spoiler but it made me feel soooo freaking bad for the mom because this woman is legitimately just trying to recover from her trauma and her daughter is a little demon 😭😂🙈
I’m watching this bc I’m too lazy to read the book bc it’s soo slow at first thuhh.
Yesss it was slow in the beginning!! It’s like all she cared about was hating her mom and not much else🤦🏻♀️
Though I totally agree that bel was mean it actually hurt me😢
She was just a little too mean for me. Like the only people she was nice to was her dad and Carter. It drove me crazy 😪.
@@heididischler i think it's cause she knew and trusted them as her father took care of her while carter was her support system. She didn't trust Rachel since she never knew her and found how her tiny slipups a bit weird and somewhat suspicious since she never knew or trusted as she is new and is quite literally acting weird and jittery
Edit: But its a speculation though so don't take it seriously
Yeah well no ones perfect and anyway she wasn’t that mean at all more than average but i think its fair i love bel
Way too much foul language for teenagers and even me, an adult.
I didn’t finish it.
Honestly, with Five Survive and The Reappearance of Rachel Price, I really only finished them because I liked A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder so much. These were very disappointing in comparison.
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