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Good Bad Girl
by Alice Feeney
Read Completed 7/31/23 | 3.5 stars
Alice Feeney always comes in with a good twist and GOOD BAD GIRL was no exception! It took me a while to figure out where things were headed and things just kept getting deeper and deeper towards the end.
This was a really solid book but just not my favorite Alice Feeney. I struggled to connect to the characters a bit and the book just flew by -- even after finishing, I'm still not sure if it was a good thing or a bad thing that I was halfway through without even realizing it. I was waiting for something more to start happening and for it to stop feeling like an intro, and yet, it was easy to breeze through and didn't drag.
There are a lot of people who eventually get POVs and when they just kept coming, I just didn't know how many people we were going to be keeping track of. I really don't think we needed so many and I think it prevented me from really getting involved in anyone's story as much as I had hoped. It felt more like I was just watching it all from afar instead of being involved in the story and pulled into these characters' lives.
This was very much about mother-daughter relationships in many ways and because of the way it was written, it got a little exhausting rehashing this concept over and over again in the book. I'm also a bit tired of the mother-baby concept in thrillers, despite it being an obvious choice for so many struggles.
I did enjoy the read but by the time I got to the end, we had already been winding around from here to there, jumping from person to person, and throwing in so many accusations that some of the twists were like, "Yeah, whatever." I almost forgot they were even happening. It was also a nice ending and I'm usually not a fan of the nice ending in thrillers. Makes it less sinister.
Alice Feeney always comes in with a good twist and GOOD BAD GIRL was no exception! It took me a while to figure out where things were headed and things just kept getting deeper and deeper towards the end.
This was a really solid book but just not my favorite Alice Feeney. I struggled to connect to the characters a bit and the book just flew by -- even after finishing, I'm still not sure if it was a good thing or a bad thing that I was halfway through without even realizing it. I was waiting for something more to start happening and for it to stop feeling like an intro, and yet, it was easy to breeze through and didn't drag.
There are a lot of people who eventually get POVs and when they just kept coming, I just didn't know how many people we were going to be keeping track of. I really don't think we needed so many and I think it prevented me from really getting involved in anyone's story as much as I had hoped. It felt more like I was just watching it all from afar instead of being involved in the story and pulled into these characters' lives.
This was very much about mother-daughter relationships in many ways and because of the way it was written, it got a little exhausting rehashing this concept over and over again in the book. I'm also a bit tired of the mother-baby concept in thrillers, despite it being an obvious choice for so many struggles.
I did enjoy the read but by the time I got to the end, we had already been winding around from here to there, jumping from person to person, and throwing in so many accusations that some of the twists were like, "Yeah, whatever." I almost forgot they were even happening. It was also a nice ending and I'm usually not a fan of the nice ending in thrillers. Makes it less sinister.