Jennifer Hunter returns in the sequel to Jessica Brody's first novel The Fidelity Files. Now running her own business, The Hawthorne Agency, Jennifer has a team of fidelity inspectors and has unofficially retired. She's in a happy relationship with Jamie and it's all going swimmingly - until a twelve-year-old girl walks into the office and asks Jennifer to fidelity test her father. Will Jennifer say yes? And if so, how will that affect her relationship with Jamie?
First off I thought the opening chapter was perfect. It was akin to a movie opening - it set the scene perfectly, flicking between first- and third-person describing why Jennifer was in the court room and exactly what happened during the fidelity test Jennifer was an expert-witness on. Bar the opening chapter, the rest of the novel was written in first-person from Jennifer's perspective (like The Fidelity Files) which worked perfectly as Jennifer's was the only perspective we needed the book to be from. I thought The Good Girl's Guide to Bad Men carried on perfectly from The Fidelity Files, being set a year later, and I easily got into the novel.
That was all good but the question really was if The Good Girl's Guide to Bad Men could live up to it's predecessor The Fidelity Files and for me, it didn't. It was an excellent read, yes, but there was a lot I disagreed with.
Overall it was an enjoyable enough book and is an incredibly easy book to whizz through but, for me, I don't think it lived up to the greatness of The Fidelity Files. Jessica wrote such a great debut it was always going to be difficult for the sequel to live up to it. It is well worth a read, though, because I did enjoy it.