spindere11a 's review for:

Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney

1.75

dark

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LOL soooo dumb. 
I should have followed my instinct to DNF once I was freaking annoyed by BOTH Grady and Abby within the *first FIVE* pages 🙄
I actually have so much less respect now for the authors who praised this on the cover as “genius” etc

A couple bright spots (though some are likely inadvertent)…
- the landscape and seascape descriptions are lovely
- the dog 😍
- the repeated referrals to the cottage The Edge made me giggle and think of U2. But then there was a sentence where The Edge is mentioned, followed in the same sentence by something like “but I have yet to find what I’m looking for” 🤣🤘🤣
- it read very much like a goofy Dollar Store version of the Pegg/Frost movie Hot Fuzz. I just kept thinking about “village of the year” and “the greaterr gooooood “ 🤣
- the surprise

revelation that the first word of the first several chapters spells out a message was fun. I anticipated most of the plot twists very early on, but didn’t catch that little Easter egg

A couple of the biggest eyerolls…
There were

TWO Abby’s?? Dummmmmb.   And Grady “forgot” ?? Ugh.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Sexual violence