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A review by trywii
Good Girls Don't Die by Christina Henry
3.0
A very fascinating concept of a thriller, however the execution towards the end was lackluster.
I was very compelled by the opening story, and by the second story I felt like the ball was really rolling, but by the third and the joined protagonists’ ending, I was tired.
There was a part of the beginning where the protagonist starts to look at the seams of her surroundings and realizing the photos around her ‘home’ have been carefully doctored. Another part where a different protagonist explains to a friend that they’re in a set by how the dirt, forest, and road are set up in an unnatural way. Both of these instances felt clever and rewarding as the protagonists slowly began to unravel the sets around them. Unfortunately, this is where the fun mystery and thrill of it all starts and ends.
One thing is that the dialogue was really heavy-handed. Every other page a character says/thinks something like “Wait this is just like (popular thriller story), where (plot of said story)-“ and it’s really annoying. A few times is completely understandable and realistic imo, but it happens over and over with completely different characters and it ends up giving them the same voice.
Another is that the main villain’s motivations and the logistics of his plan is just…silly. I can completely understand that the driving force here is misogyny and that a guy with time and money to burn would use that to harm women-
What I don’t get is that it manifested in a private island hosting multiple miles-long Truman Show sets with dozens of actors all to be an elaborate setup where all the kidnapped women just die within a day or two simply because the main villain got into a heated fandom argument with them.
Like…Huh?
This is played off as a ‘oh this is SUPPOSED to be absurd because misogynistic men don’t make sense anyway’ but then there’s the case with the hired actors/actresses, one of whom was interrogated by one of the protagonists on her motivations to which she just said ‘I like hurting people
I was very compelled by the opening story, and by the second story I felt like the ball was really rolling, but by the third and the joined protagonists’ ending, I was tired.
There was a part of the beginning where the protagonist starts to look at the seams of her surroundings and realizing the photos around her ‘home’ have been carefully doctored. Another part where a different protagonist explains to a friend that they’re in a set by how the dirt, forest, and road are set up in an unnatural way. Both of these instances felt clever and rewarding as the protagonists slowly began to unravel the sets around them. Unfortunately, this is where the fun mystery and thrill of it all starts and ends.
One thing is that the dialogue was really heavy-handed. Every other page a character says/thinks something like “Wait this is just like (popular thriller story), where (plot of said story)-“ and it’s really annoying. A few times is completely understandable and realistic imo, but it happens over and over with completely different characters and it ends up giving them the same voice.
Another is that the main villain’s motivations and the logistics of his plan is just…silly. I can completely understand that the driving force here is misogyny and that a guy with time and money to burn would use that to harm women-
What I don’t get is that it manifested in a private island hosting multiple miles-long Truman Show sets with dozens of actors all to be an elaborate setup where all the kidnapped women just die within a day or two simply because the main villain got into a heated fandom argument with them.
Like…Huh?
This is played off as a ‘oh this is SUPPOSED to be absurd because misogynistic men don’t make sense anyway’ but then there’s the case with the hired actors/actresses, one of whom was interrogated by one of the protagonists on her motivations to which she just said ‘I like hurting people