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A review by gabbygetsreading
Good Bad Girl by Alice Feeney
2.0
DNF.
This was just trying way too hard to be more mysterious than it is. There's too many Povs to begin with. They are all written exactly the same, so it's hard to tell them apart. Essentially, if you're listening to the audiobook, you can barely tell when it goes to the next chapter because they're pretty indistinguishable.
Also, the "good bad girl, good people do bad things" theme is corny and was milked too much. The quote sounds like a Facebook post and barely makes any sense in the plot. The book had potential starting off with an exhausted mother and her baby getting abducted. But after that, I really didn't care about anything else happening. I didn't care about the mother daughter relationships when I could barely care about the characters on their own.
Its also weird how authors can't think of any other character traits, so they just dump some mental disorders on a character without knowing much about it. One of the characters is this authors idea of OCD and it always makes me roll my eyes the way they portray it. Characters always have to be counting, hallucinating, hearing voices, tapping, obsessed with numbers being even, etc. It's been done so much that I won't even waste my time reading through an entire story with a poor plot heading nowhere new.
Ontop if it all the book is just boring. I wanted to try and push through for my book club discussion, but I was just so bored that I started tuning out. Readers shouldn't have to push past your 50% mark to start enjoying the experience. I would've liked this if it stuck to the mother who lost her baby and maybe a detective pov.
This was just trying way too hard to be more mysterious than it is. There's too many Povs to begin with. They are all written exactly the same, so it's hard to tell them apart. Essentially, if you're listening to the audiobook, you can barely tell when it goes to the next chapter because they're pretty indistinguishable.
Also, the "good bad girl, good people do bad things" theme is corny and was milked too much. The quote sounds like a Facebook post and barely makes any sense in the plot. The book had potential starting off with an exhausted mother and her baby getting abducted. But after that, I really didn't care about anything else happening. I didn't care about the mother daughter relationships when I could barely care about the characters on their own.
Its also weird how authors can't think of any other character traits, so they just dump some mental disorders on a character without knowing much about it. One of the characters is this authors idea of OCD and it always makes me roll my eyes the way they portray it. Characters always have to be counting, hallucinating, hearing voices, tapping, obsessed with numbers being even, etc. It's been done so much that I won't even waste my time reading through an entire story with a poor plot heading nowhere new.
Ontop if it all the book is just boring. I wanted to try and push through for my book club discussion, but I was just so bored that I started tuning out. Readers shouldn't have to push past your 50% mark to start enjoying the experience. I would've liked this if it stuck to the mother who lost her baby and maybe a detective pov.