comment on style / language

The author uses largely plain and accessible language to craft the narrative world of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder. Because the protagonist and first person narrator of the novel is 18-year-old Pip, the author uses linguistic patterns fitting of her age, education, and life experience. Because Pip is known to be highly studious, and markedly clever, the language she uses in her logs, and that which the third person narrator employs in crafting the chaptered sections, reflects her intellectual capacity. While Pip speaks casually in her capstone entries, she does not shy away from using vocabulary which indicates her schooling, her investment in her academic work, and her love for reading and writing.