I very much enjoyed this book. I have to say it’s the best thriller I’ve read this year. I was not expecting the final plot twist at all, I did not see Frankie being Cleo’s daughter. It was very clever and kept me wanting to hear more and more. I only have a few complaints :

1. The cover is horrible. Looks cheap. Should be better for a book this good
2. What is the infatuation with the police detective’s pink hair streak being mentioned every time she was speaking to someone? In 2023, a pink streak shouldn’t get this much coverage in a book.
3. This book relied so much on coincidence. I think the author obviously knew that and gave Edith a line about coincidence which I thought was clever.
4. The police just stopped investigating the murder?

Minus some the above plot holes, this thriller was amazing. I can overlook them. The narrator was outstanding. This book should be a hit with word of mouth.

Alice Feeney has done it again with a twisty, turny, page turner. The whole time I was reading this I felt on the verge of connecting all the dots but I wasn't able to figure out how eveyone was connected until the end. It was a wild ride of babies lost or given away at birth, murders in a senior care home, and a whole cast of characters with complicated relationships with their mothers. I enjoyed the narrators, Stephanie Racine who I've listened to and enjoyed before, and Katherine Press who is new for me. I recommend this book to lovers of British Thrillers.

𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 💭:
This is a gradual-paced domestic thriller centered around four main characters. I found it easy and straightforward to follow while reading the physical book 📖, but when I tried just the audio version, it got a little confusing for my 🧠 . I highly recommend using the audio alongside the physical copy, if you choose to do the audio! (Like many of you, I love audiobooks for time reasons but sometimes you just need the good ole physical 📖 to keep all the characters straight!)

Alice Feeney excels at crafting unexpected twists and turns. I was guessing the final revelation right until the book's very end 📖👏🏼.

The characters all have interconnected secrets, making it captivating to see the mystery unravel through each of the page's 🐞.

This 📖 is officially out in the world on Tuesday!! 🎉

On the surface, Good Bad Girl is a murder mystery. If you look a little bit deeper, you'll find it's the story of mothers and daughters, and not just regular every day mothers and daughters. These women have strained relationships, and they're all hiding secrets.

This book has A LOT of characters, and to be quite honest, I had a hard time keeping track of who's who for about half of the book. Once I was able to figure out who these people actually were, I enjoyed the story a lot more. That said, it did take me a long time to get into the story. I wonder if it might have been different if I had the book in front of me, but with the audio, I was confused more often than not. In the end, this is a good story with good characters.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for this ALC. Katherine Press and Stephanie Racine were great narrators (even if they sounded the same at times).

I haven’t previously been a fan of Alice Feeney books but this one wasn’t bad at all!
I really liked the multiple pov and how all of their stories are weirdly related. It was a good murder mystery that kept me guessing!

*4.5 Stars On My Instagram Account*

"It's not who we are, it's who we think we are that holds us back in life and stops us from being who we could be."

There are so many great quotes in the dynamic slow burn dramatically twisty Good Bad Girl by premier twisty thriller author Alice Feeney that choosing one for this multi layered domestic thriller was nearly impossible.

This story begins with a baby stolen out of its buggy in a grocery store. 20 years later a woman is murdered in a care facility. Somehow, with the warped winding mind of this writer, these events are extensively connected to each other.

80 year old Edith is tricked into an elderly facility by her daughter Clio. Edith is determined to escape with the help of her aide, Patience. I love Patience for finding the shelter where Clio placed Edith's faithful dog Dickens and rescuing him. She even sneaks him in to visit Edith. Patience has her own family drama, running away a year ago, estranged from her mom Frankie.

This story is about mother/daughter relationships. I believe one of the themes of this book is, "... there's nothing like a mother's love. Take that away you'll find there's nothing like a daughter's hate."

Once again, narrators Stephanie Racine and Katherine Press give award worthy emotional performances and still keep the humor and sarcasm with the author's sharp dialogue.

Everyone has so many secrets that Frankie has "shh!" tattooed on her to remind her to keep hers to herself. Then there's detective Charlotte Chapman who has connections to these women too!

Alice Feeny is one of my all time favorite thriller writers and has once again created a story of, "people who are good at being bad and people who are bad at being good."

I received a free copy of this audiobook from MacMillan Audio via #NetGalley for a fair and honest review. All opinions are my own.

4.5⭐️ This is easily my most anticipated 2023 release, and as usual when it’s written by Alice Feeney, it did not let me down. She is the master of jaw-dropping twists and from start to finish, she intricately unveils them one by one.

While this is a more slow burn type of thriller, with a really unique cozy mystery vibe, there are still many of the elements that make Feeney so popular. Her characters are always well written, with incredible depth and relatability, and the relationships, whether between spouses, friends, or mothers and daughters, equally so.

Her prologue and cliffhanger chapters are also her trademark and it really kept the pace moving, even in the slower, more reflective moments. And with a beginning that starts at the end, I found myself flying through the pages trying to figure out how we got to where we started.

Feeney is an auto-buy author for me and there is a reason why - her writing is in a league of its own. Check out 𝘎𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘉𝘢𝘥 𝘎𝘪𝘳𝘭, and then proceed to read her entire backlist (which I’ve rated all 4-5★ minus one that I left unrated due to subject matter). She can do no wrong in my book.

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🔪domestic suspense
👩‍👧mother/daughter dynamics
📏short chapters
🧦cozy type thriller
🌪️twisty books
👯‍♀️multiple POVs

Thank you {partners} Booksparks, Flatiron Books and Macmillan Audio for my gifted copies.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an audio copy to listen to in exchange for an honest review.

What did I just read?? I'm gobsmacked at how addictive this books was. I was working to figure out all the pieces and characters and mysteries and never did them all. Fantastic book!

This book has been absolutely everywhere this week (of course it is publishing week), and I am here for it because it is well deserved. I have all of Alice's books in my TBR but this is the first one I have picked up. I first of all love this cover. I always love the simple visuals with the color spotlights. Just lovely.

Do you know that feeling when you find an old necklace at the bottom of a jewelry box. The chain is so knotted up and intertwined that just when you think you have gotten a knot out another knot seems to form. That is what it is like reading this book. The characters and their stories are so intertwined that just when you think you've figured out the twist, something else comes along to put another knot in that chain.

The story feel pretty basic at first, almost dull, but the more I got into the story the more I felt invested. This is where I would go in and break up some of the plot, but I don't feel like I can do that without giving away the twist, so I shall just say the official description is your best bet.

There are two narrators for the 4 main characters of the story. They did a great job though sometimes the jumping from one character to another was a bit confusing. Then we'd have the bits where you would jump 20 years into the past. Overall, it was a fantastic thriller/mystery novel with so many twist they can be hard to keep straight!

Alice Feeney has done it again. I thought I had everything figured out and then oops, nope I didn’t. I like a mystery that keeps me guessing and then second guessing. The audiobook is superbly narrated.

This is an interesting audiobook to review. The narrator did a fantastic job with the story, and I enjoyed the tension build up along the way. I wish I had a physical copy or the ebook to follow along because I did find myself lost a few times and listened to the ending chapters a few times to get the story straight. I thought it was quite clever and enjoyed it overall.

"Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things."
There's been a murder in the care home, and on this same day twenty years ago, a baby was taken from a stroller. The two crimes are linked, but how? At 80 years old, Edith has been tricked into a nursing home and is plotting her escape. Edith and Patience, a worker in the home, have bonded, but Edith doesn't realize Patience has been lying to her. Clio, Edith's daughter, won't talk to her due to their troubling past, but Clio should watch out because someone is searching for her. Every woman involved in this mystery has reasons to distrust one another. Somehow, they must come together to solve a mystery with three suspects, two murders, and one victim. Solving this could be the key to piecing together the mystery from so many years earlier. What ever did happen to the stolen baby and the heartbroken mother?
I've been excited to read this, but it was okay. It is much more of a domestic drama than a thriller, which wasn't what I expected at all since it's marketed as a thriller. I found it to be kind of slow-moving and a bit confusing for the majority of the book. While Alice Feeney is trying to be very mysterious, she's also making the storyline hard to follow. With the dual timeline and lack of information, this story didn't start to really make sense or come together until about 65% into the book, and at that point, you're kind of over it. I've loved her other stories, so I was hoping love this one more than I did. The last 30% of the book really picked up and all came together, making the ending alone 5 stars. I loved the twists and wished the rest of the book had the same feel. The narrators, Katherine Press and Stephanie Racine did a phenomenal job voicing the characters. I loved the different accents they used! I look forward to reading more of Alicey Feeney's work.
I received a free copy of this book via NetGalley and Libro.fm. I am voluntarily leaving an honest review.

Thank you, NetGalley, for an audio-ARC of Good Bad Girl by Alice Feeney, narrated by Katherine Press and Stephanie Racine.
I will read anything by Alice Feeney especially if it is narrated by Stephanie Racine. Once again, Feeney did not disappoint. The perfect combination of mystery, suspense, and plot twists. A book that keeps you guessing until the very end.

Alice Feeney’s work is always intriguing and Good Bad Girl fits the bill. I listened to the audiobook which was brilliantly narrated. Some classic psych thriller tropes with great character development. Read it! Read all of Feeney’s work!

I don't know where this trend started, but I wish it would end. Books filled with characters that are entirely dislikeable are not good. Period. Full stop. If I don't like the characters, I don't care what happens. And this book is no different. The characters are awful people. And because they are awful, they are flat. There is no character with any depth. There is more character development in a Flat Stanley. In all... rubbish.

Beyond that, Ms. Feeney falls into another over-used trope... the 1,000,000 points of view. IF it lends to the story, IF they can be differentiated, IF they are well constructed, then they are workable. But again, the characters are undeveloped, one-dimensional and indiscernible other than random comments that identify what body they are looking out of rather than who they are.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 5 Stars

🐞Happy publication day to Alice Feeney and Good Bad Girl! Thank you to Macmillan Audio and NetGalley for allowing me to read an ALC (Advanced Listener 🎧 Copy) for an honest review!🐞

📅 Today (August 29, 2023) is the pub date for Good Bad Girl by Alice Feeney. 📅

It begins at the end and ends at the beginning. Just when you think you know what’s going on, Alice Feeney, comes in with a surprising one-two punch. Feeney is known as the queen 👑 of twists for a reason. This books keeps readers captivated and guessing throughout. Feeney is one of my favorite authors for thrillers and did not disappoint with Good Bad Girl. I recommend this book to any veteran thriller lover or newbie to thrillers.

In a span of ten minutes or less, a child goes missing from their mother’s buggy in the supermarket never to be seen again.

Twenty years later, Charlotte Chapman, with Central Intelligence is looking into two murders that take place in an assisted living home. She easily identifies three main suspects: 1) Cautious Frankie who believes she can’t count on others to be trustworthy so instead, she counts numbers to keep her anxiety at bay, 2) Clio who is a therapist that is empathetic to most people except when it comes to her mother (Edith), and 3) Patience, a personal care aide at the assisted living facility where the two bodies were found.

As DCI Chapman begins to uncover the truth behind the murders, the suspects begin to uncover the truths that make them more interconnected than they thought. What secrets are they each harboring and how do they impact each other?

Alice Feeney wants to write thrillers with twists and turns. This was not a thriller story but she attempted to add in twists and turns to make it one; it didn’t work. The “twists” were obvious from the start and the story, told from several points of view, with no change in tone by the narrator, made this a muddled mess that I wasn’t wholly invested in and by the end, didn’t much care since I had most of it figured out anyway. This would have been better served as a women’s fiction story about relationships, exploring the stickiness of familial ties rather than a lackluster thriller.

Thank you net galley, Macmillan Audio and Alice Feeney for the audio version of this book.

I was confused at first but I kept listening and thank god I did. I enjoyed the narration by Katherine Press and Stephanie Racine.
Alice Feeney is a clever author, always make me think I am going crazy. Love Her writing style.

Good Bad Girl a must read.

I love Alice Feeney and this book did not disappoint! It was a refreshing thriller and I loved how the narrator of the audiobook brought the story to life.

Special thanks to Macmillan audio and NetGalley for the ARC for the audio of this book.

I really love Alice Feeney, but sadly this was not one of my favorites. It has multiple POVs and was mostly about women and their daughters. I almost stopped listening but then I wanted to see how it played out and it was a good book, but not one of her best.