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Beautiful Ugly

Alice Feeney

3.63 AVERAGE

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A most anxiously unreliable narrator /10

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Ending was disappointing, but pace was great and story was engaging up until about 80%.

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dark sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Those twists were ridiculous. There was so much potential for this book but by the midway point, the author started repeating herself, going in circles. I’m all for unreliable narrators but this was not done well. At all.
And to make it worse, there’s philosophical stuff all over the book, which normally I wouldn’t mind because yay depth, but it was literally shoved down your throat. It’s fake substance. It simply ain’t that deep.
All in all, I’m glad I got to read this book through my library because if I paid for this book, I would’ve had to do a chargeback on my card. 
dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: N/A
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A
tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
challenging mysterious
dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark mysterious

- who run the world? GIRLS!

beginning was quite boring but when it picked up it was twist, after twist, after twist.


4.5 stars!! I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I listened to the audio and I loved all the added touches to enhance the listening experience. The characters were all interesting and I felt like the pace was good for me. Since I listened on audio I read it way faster. But I understand if I was to read the physical book it might feel slow at parts. I have a hard time guessing the twists in books. I knew Abby was going to be on the island but I didn’t know what else was going to happen. I liked the ending. AND oh my gosh the hidden message in this book is FABBBB almost didn’t catch it. Amazing touch and it made the ending more satisfying. I have other Alice Feeney books that I enjoyed better but this one was enjoyable and I definitely recommend