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A review by gemsliterarygems
Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney

dark mysterious tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Author Grady Green's wife went missing while on the phone to him, and a year later he is struggling to cope financially, has writers block and still has no idea where she has gone. His agent, Kitty, suggests he uses her writers cabin on a remote Scottish island, where there's only 25 people and no phone signal, as he loves the isolation when writing. But as soon as he arrives, strange things start to happen. Is his exhausted brain playing tricks or is something else happening? 

This is a slow burn standalone thriller with a lot of plot elements similar to The Wicker Man. As with Alice Feeney's other books, there's twist after twist towards the end of the book and I spent the second half of the book trying to guess them. Most of which I never stood a chance of working out which I love! It does get really dark towards the end too and I love the little Easter Egg that gets explained and gave me a thrill to go back and see if it was in the book I was reading, not just the one that Grady is writing with the same title.
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