Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Good Bad Girl by Alice Feeney

6 reviews

ashtynstarkey's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Alice Feeney has quickly become one of my favorite mystery/thriller authors because of her wild and completely unexpected twists that just keep coming! This book only got 4 stars from me because there wasn’t really the shock or wow factor that I was expecting after reading her other books. I still really enjoyed figuring out the mystery as it revealed itself and just being along for the ride. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Kidnapping and Pregnancy

anne_reader's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Kidnapping, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Murder, Grief, Confinement, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Violence, Misogyny, and Mental illness

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Infertility, Pregnancy, and Sexual violence

katyannreads's review against another edition

mysterious

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Kidnapping, Murder, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Abortion, Infidelity, and Pregnancy

lovelymisanthrope's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

As an avid reader of Alice Feeney's work, I was so excited to pick up this new title from her.
"Good Bad Girl" follows a cast of women who are all hiding something. Twenty years ago, a baby was kidnapped in a grocery store, and in the present day a woman is murdered in a nursing home. These two crimes are somehow connected and the entire cast of women are about to find out how their stories are meant to come together.
I was very invested in this story from the beginning. All of these characters are somewhat morally gray, and they made decisions that I was not entirely on board with, but that is what made them interesting. I really empathized with Patience because she has such a good heart and it is evident from the first page how much she is struggling. She is working so tirelessly to save up enough money to be able to start a new life, and my heart just went out to her. I was also sympathetic towards Edith in the beginning. She feels like her family just left her to die in the nursing home, and she wants nothing more to just go home and be with her dog around her own things.
 

Something many of these characters had in common was that they are mothers, which I think provides interesting discourse on what it means to be a mother. Edith, Clio, and Frankie are all mothers who have made sacrifices for their daughters, and they all have strained relationships with their own mothers. It is impossible to be the perfect mom, but they each have been a good bad mom. 

 
Even though I anticipated some of the twists in the story, I was still entirely invested, and I did not anticipate everything that ultimately happened. Alice Feeney is great at creating amazing turns and character developments that I do not see coming.
I look forward to enjoying more from Alice Feeney in the future. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Abandonment, Child death, Kidnapping, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Grief, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual harassment

Minor: Pregnancy

kris386's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Murder, Toxic relationship, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, Mental illness, and Medical content

Minor: Blood, Body shaming, Dementia, Miscarriage, Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Infertility, Vomit, Pregnancy, and Abortion

ropey's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

This is my third Alice Feeney book and I must say she is a hit or miss for me. This one involves a mystery that meandered so far, you forget what it’s about. I think it intended to pull off what The Push did

with postpartum depression

but I had trouble connecting with any of these characters. I’d still pick up anything by this author though.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Abandonment, Kidnapping, Abortion, Death of parent, and Pregnancy