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A review by adriannasophiabookss
Good Bad Girl by Alice Feeney
3.0
3.5 stars
Thank you so much to Pan MacMillan and Netgalley for this ARC! Alice Feeney’s last novel Daisy Darker was in my top ten favourite books of last year so I was so excited when I was approved for this!
This is a mystery thriller following four POVs that all connect to a baby being stolen from a buggy in a supermarket twenty years earlier. Edith has been tricked into a nursing home by her daughter and becomes friends with Patience who works at the care home. Neither of them knows that they are both lying to each other, especially Patience who has lied about every single thing she’s told Edith. Clio, Edith’s daughter, has a fraught relationship with her mother and lives alone in her pink house with a life that others envy, or that’s how it looks anyway but the facade she puts on is just that, a facade. Frankie’s daughter ran away over a year ago and she is about to knock on the door of the pink house and tell the biggest secret she’s ever kept to right wrongs. How do these women connect to the kidnapping twenty years prior and how did it set in motion a crime that has taken place today?
I find Alice Feeney’s books to be compulsively readable. I fly through them because the chapters are short and the plots compelling. This was no different and there were so many cliffhangers I just wanted to keep reading. I didn’t see one of the big twists coming and overall it was an enjoyable reading experience.
The reason this wasn’t a four star for me though is because I guessed most of the major twists pretty early on. I thought it was pretty obvious how these women connected and at times I thought I’d got it wrong but I hadn’t. I also (and this is the ONLY problem I had with Daisy Darker as well) is the random “3am thoughts” (you know, the Facebook page) quotes that came out of people’s mouths or that would be randomly inserted in a scene. It really took me out of the story, especially because a lot of them were so cliché and just not needed.
Apart from that I would still recommend this because it’s a good thriller that keeps you guessing at multiple points. I would also recommend this to anyone wanting to dip their toe into the thriller genre as this isn’t very dark and isn’t gory at all and as I said before is really easy to read. I’m excited to see what else Alice Feeney writes and to dive more into her backlist! This one was released on 3rd August so you can grab it now!
Thank you so much to Pan MacMillan and Netgalley for this ARC! Alice Feeney’s last novel Daisy Darker was in my top ten favourite books of last year so I was so excited when I was approved for this!
This is a mystery thriller following four POVs that all connect to a baby being stolen from a buggy in a supermarket twenty years earlier. Edith has been tricked into a nursing home by her daughter and becomes friends with Patience who works at the care home. Neither of them knows that they are both lying to each other, especially Patience who has lied about every single thing she’s told Edith. Clio, Edith’s daughter, has a fraught relationship with her mother and lives alone in her pink house with a life that others envy, or that’s how it looks anyway but the facade she puts on is just that, a facade. Frankie’s daughter ran away over a year ago and she is about to knock on the door of the pink house and tell the biggest secret she’s ever kept to right wrongs. How do these women connect to the kidnapping twenty years prior and how did it set in motion a crime that has taken place today?
I find Alice Feeney’s books to be compulsively readable. I fly through them because the chapters are short and the plots compelling. This was no different and there were so many cliffhangers I just wanted to keep reading. I didn’t see one of the big twists coming and overall it was an enjoyable reading experience.
The reason this wasn’t a four star for me though is because I guessed most of the major twists pretty early on. I thought it was pretty obvious how these women connected and at times I thought I’d got it wrong but I hadn’t. I also (and this is the ONLY problem I had with Daisy Darker as well) is the random “3am thoughts” (you know, the Facebook page) quotes that came out of people’s mouths or that would be randomly inserted in a scene. It really took me out of the story, especially because a lot of them were so cliché and just not needed.
Apart from that I would still recommend this because it’s a good thriller that keeps you guessing at multiple points. I would also recommend this to anyone wanting to dip their toe into the thriller genre as this isn’t very dark and isn’t gory at all and as I said before is really easy to read. I’m excited to see what else Alice Feeney writes and to dive more into her backlist! This one was released on 3rd August so you can grab it now!