This was a really fun look at the characters from the Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series.

Pippa Fitz-Amobi is talked into going to a murder mystery party and along with her friends try to figure out a fictional crime.

I thought it was really neat seeing how Pippa got her start in solving crimes. There wasn’t a lot of tense moments or anything else like in the rest of the series but definitely a fun look at how if all began

I received this book in exchange for my honest opinion

Pippa is invited to a murder mystery party along with her friends, and uses her detective skills to try catch a murder. Everyone plays their roles well and no one knows who the killer is until the very end. I really enjoyed this novella by Holly Jackson, and would recommend it for anyone wanting a good, short read!

This novella is set before A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder and depicts what initially sparked Pippa’s interest in the case from the main series. I think it is important to read the main series before this, even though it is listed as a prequel, otherwise so much context will be lost. The characters are not really developed or introduced in this at all, and it might be confusing if you have not read the other three books where we actually do get to know them.

I don’t know if a prequel was particularly necessary. I don’t think it added anything to the main books and would not work well on its own.

Thank you to NetGalley, Random House Children’s/Delacorte Press, and Holly Jackson for an e-arc of Kill Joy in exchange for an honest review.

A perfect prequel to A Good Girl's Guide to Murder. This book has Pip and friends getting together for a 1920's themed murder mystery dinner party. Throughout the night, they are presented with clues about who killed a rich millionnaire for their fictional story/roleplay. Of course, Pip's brain works differently than everyone else's and she notices clues that no one else does. Also, characters throughout this story refer to the Sal Singh/Andie Bell case, tying this book directly to A Good Girl's Guide to Murder. and ends with Pip deciding on her Capstone Project for school.

I really wanted to love this novella. I picked up the trilogy and just fell in love with it. So when I saw a prequel was coming out I couldn't wait. So they are all getting together for a murder mystery dinner party. Which seriously is one of my favorite things I want to do. It was an interesting story but just didn't stick the landing.

I enjoyed this! It was a quick, easy, and mysterious read. I loved feeling like I was at the dinner party.

I really missed Pip. I wouldn’t mind a collection of Pip stories. This was a great intro to Pip before Pip and Ravi!

Thank you to NetGalley and Random House Children's, Delacorte Press for allowing me to read this book. Do I think that this book was necessary to the series? No. But did I have a lot of fun reading it? Absolutely! I love a good who done it, even in a murder mystery party form. I was trying to figure out who it was along with Pip, which made this book so fun and fast paced. Gosh I love this series. 5 stars ⭐️

This is a prequel novella about Pip Fitz-Amobi, the MC of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder. Pip and her friends attend a murder-mystery party and Pip funds herself taking the game quite seriously which ultimately leads her to the decision on what her senior Capstone project will be. It is a fun read and sets the stage for future Pip's actions and discoveries.

If you're a fan of the Good Girl's Guide to Murder series, you will enjoy this quick read.

Thank you NetGalley and Delacorte Press for the advanced reader ebook.

My daughter is 14 years old. Her name is Madilyn (Madi). She has auditory processing disorder & is classified special education in main stream classes with an aid. She never liked to read until this year!! This year, she has been tearing through books! She started the @hojay92 Good girl series & when she was halfway through the second book, I was approved for Kill Joy on NetGalley! She has completed all four books & wanted to share her review on here!!
Here's some general book details:
Book 1: A Good Girls Guide to Murder
Goodreads: 4.35 Madi: 5 Stars
Book 2: Good Girl, Bad Blood Goodreads: 4.35 Madi: 5 Stars Book 3: As Good As Dead Goodreads: 4.20 Madi: 5 Stars Book .5 (Prequel): Kill Joy Goodreads: 3.95 Madi: 4 Stars
Madi's thoughts:
I really liked Holly Jackson's A Good Girls Guide to Murder Series! The writing was so good & kept me so interested. I read these books in under 10 days. The first book made me fall in love with the series. I really enjoyed how Pip obsessed with the case & everything clicked. I loved the way the book was told journal style, I think I felt more connected to Pip this way. The second book was amazing. She thought one more &!it would fix her but it didn't. This book had so many twists & turns & kept me guessing the whole time. The last book was heartbreaking. I was crying every other chapter but i'm glad it ended the way it did. The prequel really brought everything together. It made all three books so much more!
The 2nd book was my favorite & my favorite characters were
Pip & Ravi. I love the two of them together, they have so much chemistry!
Hope you enjoyed this special guest review! Stay tuned for my review shortly!! Thank you to NetGalley, Random House Children's & the author for an arc copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

This novella is a prequel to A Good GirI's Guide To Murder. I loved this book and will definitely be bumping A Good Girl's Guide To Murder up on my TBR. The idea of a murder mystery game was an awesome idea and the story pulled me right in. Pip is my kind of girl definitely interested in learning more about her. The ending was entertaining and a little shocking and Pip's reaction was priceless. Thank you Netgalley and Random House Children's for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Kill Joy is a fun little prequel novella to A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder. While it is written before the events in the first book, it’s really not an introduction to this series. I kind of felt like you’d been thrown in with no idea who these characters were. So, with that in mind, if I was starting this series, I would start with the first book and then you can hit this novella whenever you want within the series. It gives you Pip’s reason’s why she starts the podcast so that was interesting. It’s a murder mystery game and you get sucked in immediately. It’s quite entertaining and I would recommend it.

* ARC provided by NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Thank you!

This was a fun read to see how it all started for Pip. I also enjoyed reading about the characters before AGGGTM and knowing the truth about them while Pip didn’t. The game the characters played was interesting and I have the same questions as Pip.
Ant and Lauren are still the worst, if you know you know.
I highly recommend reading this.

I received this book free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Killjoy was a bit of a "killjoy" for me. Holly Jackson's book "A Good Girl's Guide to Murder" was fun to read and moved quickly. I loved her protagonist, Pip, but the books in the series that came after, and now the prequel, Killjoy, were not a big hit for me. While the other books were chunkier, Killjoy was very short. It was simply okay. I liked the game aspect of this and can see her YA audience enjoying it as well. Even though it missed the mark for me, I do think it has potential to enjoyed by the diehard fans of Pip and A Good Girl's Guide to Murder. In my opinion, Jackson had a great thing going and then phoned it in for the rest of the series.

Thanks to NetGalley and Electric Monkey for this ARC.

This was a quick read and it definitely helped me out of my reading slump. I loved the idea of the murder mystery party theme- a bit cliché but so what, lol. I love Holly Jacksons writing and my only gripe I would say is that I am not the right audience for this book. It was a bit YA for me and I felt like I was able to predict a lot of what happened.

Holly Jackson is an instant buy/borrow/request/read author for me. I have read all of her books and they keep me engaged, thinking, plotting, guessing, and amazed every time.
In this novella we are an audience to a murder mystery dinner game with the whole gang. While the mystery is a game, we get a glimpse of Pip and the way her mind works. During the course of this game and afterward we get to be there for when Pip makes the decision on her senior capstone project that sets the rest of the series ablaze. I am currently finishing up the last book in the Good Girls Guide to Murder series and this was a fun prequel to see just how far the story has come.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for this arc.

If you need a quick fun whodunnit this is it! I loved the whole concept of this book and getting to be with Pip and the gang again. It leads up perfectly for AGGGTM. Since it was first published between the second and first book I felt like Pip was more of the book three version of herself compared to how she was in book one. If you read the series you’ll understand what I mean. I loved book 1 Pip not who she became in the third book. To me there wasn’t anything wrong with this book except Pip didn’t feel like her fun loving self who was a curious teenager like in book one. I kept feeling like she was hiding something….. which more is a foreshadowing of book 3 then book 1. I even told my self “Pip who are, this isn’t you.” Over all it’s good edition if you loved this series!

Overall a fun novella with Pip and the gang. Not as good as the full length stories and didn’t give the same vibe. Was still nice to see where Pip got the idea for her project.

Thanks to NetGalley for this e-ARC in exchange for my honest review.

The was a cute and short prequel to the Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series. It was light and frothy but a nice way to revisit some of the characters before the events that would irrevocably change their lives.

3.5🌟 killjoy is a prequel novella to the a good girls guide to murder series. this features pip and her friends at a murder mystery birthday party. pip is definitely not in the mood to get dressed up and play detective, but as the night goes on, we get to witness pip finding joy in the process and getting super into the game.

this was a fun way to venture back into this universe with characters we know and love. it’s an interesting phenomenon to revisit this town before everything got flipped upside down in the aftermath of pip’s investigations into the andie bell case. we get little easter eggs hinting at characters we are going to meet and things that happen later in the timeline, which is a super fun touch. I liked that we got to experience the moments when pip realizes that sleuthing and crime solving is something that she actually could be interested in. it's only about 200 pages and also a super short audiobook.

this is definitely not necessary to read to close or start out the series, but if you already liked the series and want to revisit this world, it is a quick fun read.