Difficult Girls by Veronica Bane
Difficult Girls by Veronica Bane is one of the new YA Mystery Thriller Books being compared to A Good Girls Guide to Murder. Does Difficult Girls belong with books like A Good Girl’s Guide? Let’s find out!
Review of Difficult Girls by Veronica Bane
One of my favorite movies is Adventureland with Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg. There have been a few theme park YA books (I even did a post about them) and it’s a location I always enjoy!
In Difficult Girls, Greta is hiding from an event in her past that she keeps a secret. Shunned at school, she gets a job at a local theme park and is soon intrigued by a) a cold case murder that occurred there twenty years ago and b) the star performer of the park, Mercy Goodwin.
When Mercy disappears, Greta is convinced that the two cases are connected and starts investigating, alongside her sidekick Liam. The two of them were giving me all the Good Girls Guide to Murder vibes.
What I loved about Difficult Girls: the theme park setting; Ivy, a hilarious side character who had me cracking up constantly.
What I loved less: Greta is a divisive main character. Some reviewers could see why she was shunned at school. She’s socially awkward, messy, and difficult (yes, we are warned in the title, and yes, real teenagers can be that way. I didn’t love the Mercy plot.
