e-ALC, 11:15:44
Narrated by: Andi Arndt
Release Date: February 3, 2026
Published by: HarperCollins
Read from: February 4-5, 2026
Stand-alone
Source: Libro FM (I received this ALC free from Libro FM and the publisher. This did nothing to influence my review!)
Content Warning: Sexual Content, Death, Alcohol, Murder, Drug Use, Drug Abuse, Car Accident, Cancer, Death of a Parent
For Readers Interested In: Adult, Audio, Sparkly Cover, Most Anticipated, Mystery, Realistic Fiction, ThrillersA Good Girl’s Guide to Murder meets Tell Me Lies in this binge-worthy debut murder mystery about a college student whose senior year takes a deadly turn when her exes start turning up dead…
Every time a guy breaks my heart, I write him a eulogy in my journal. It’s kind of my thing—closure through creative mourning. They don’t actually die… or, at least, they didn’t.
Now? These guys aren’t just dead to me, they’re dead to everyone. And I’m the prime suspect.
With my senior year at Pembroke College—and my entire future—on the line, I’ve got no choice but to play detective. Unfortunately, that means teaming up with my long-standing frenemy, Asher, who is insufferable and somehow always there when I need him the least. We bicker, we banter, we occasionally almost hook up, but with the body count rising and my name all over the suspect board, there’s no time to get distracted.
Between college parties, messy exes, suspicious deaths, and a murder investigation I never asked to be a part of—one thing’s for this is not how I thought my last year would go.
Here’s to hoping I can find out who the real killer is… before someone ends up writing my eulogy.
*MY THOUGHTS*
This was a weird one. I’m not even sure what I thought about it tbh. It was a little all over the place, but it was also a little ok in some ways? There was so much wrong with this, but also there was a lot that was ok too. See I told you, Idk what I feel about this.
I think the reason I’m so conflicted over this is because of the characters. I HATE the way they portrayed her. WHYYYYYY do y’all insist on making your MC’s unreliable by making them drunks or on drugs and then making them experience misogyny/misogynoir? I just feel like that’s the easiest messiest thing you can think of. But like, can we get a little more creative please? And there was no characters arc whatsoever. She never learned that people were taking advantage of her at every turn.
I also felt like it was more romance than thriller. And y’all know how I feel about enemies to lovers. This is very much that and I was annoyed the whole time reading this. He was annoying and she was annoying for entertaining him. And the way he was blackmailing her and she STILL?! I don’t think I’ve ever yelled at someone like I did at her lol I don’t feel like there was a good balance of romance to thriller and it made me disinterested. Because that’s not why I picked up this book, ya know? I hope that makes sense.
Because of the imbalance in the romance/thriller part, it made the pacing weird. The only reasons I didn’t get completely annoyed and DNF was because I really wanted to know if I got the whodunit and I thought the plot itself (exes dying) was cool lolol In the end tho I didn’t guess who it was, so that’s something. I DID know one person was involved tho. But that could be only because I never trusted them anyways lol
This book was a weird one. In one breath I liked it. But in another I was annoyed. I really was in the middle on this one. I hope y’all read it and let me know what you think instead.
Overall, I give this
