Getting Away with Murder

(A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder - Book Review)

STORY BY PRECIOUS JANA MOLLEDA

they were in.

“Small things matter,” was justified in the book for every single thing was connected.

You’ll say “last chapter for today” 24 times until you’ve actually reached the last chapter of the book. You’d start reading at 10 pm, getting hooked by curiosity, then finding yourself unable to put the book down, not noticing that it's already 3 am.

Moreover, it addressed a lot of topics. Abuse having its own cycle, how the environment would be a factor of who you are, racism, misogyny, how they could make a person guilty with what they preach, victim blaming, and how people will think you know nothing just because you are young, words falling on deaf ears every time.

Abuse, indeed, has its own cycle. That was one of the messages that stood out. The oppressor oppressed, the oppressed becomes the oppressor, and the cycle goes on and on until everyone is affected in a way. Almost every character was the symbol of this.

In which related to how Bell family becomes a symbol of how the environment you grew up in, will affect your character. Jason Bell, the father, was described to be highly manipulative, misogynistic, and verbally abusive resulting in his daughters being or thinking— they were a reflection of what he says. His daughters were the definition of victims becoming the oppressors.

There was Max Hastings, a rich fool who thinks he could get away with anything. He’s nothing but a man who spikes women’s drinks, because he probably can’t get any women by being just himself. Kidding aside (I’m not kidding), he’s a sexual abuser that victims had a hard time speaking up against, because of his status. The only helpful thing he’s actually done is revealing how unjust the justice system is because of how he benefits from it.