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.

So this is one of those books where you simultaneously dislike many of the characters, feel sorry for them and thank your higher power that you are not related to them. Did the characters inherent unlikability prohibit me from enjoying this book? No, in fact the characters were my favorite part of the book. The plot was not as twisty as I would have liked as it was fairly obvious who the villains were. Kudos however to the author for making the murder take a bit more guess work. Overall, Good Bad Girl was a good listen.

Coming from Alice Feeney it should come as no surprise that her latest, Good Bad Girl, is a thoroughly gripping novel with a twisting storyline. The story focuses around Mother’s day. Two Mother’s days actually. On the first of these two Mother’s days a baby is snatched away in broad daylight. Then on Mother’s day twenty years later a murder is committed. Who did it and why? And is it possible the two crimes are connected? And how are these four women (the chapters feature constantly changing POVs) connected? In typical Feeney fashion, I was sucked in right from the start and entertained until the very end. Katherine Press and Stephanie Racine both do an excellent job with the narration. I’d like to thank Macmillan Audio and NetGalley for the opportunity to listen to an advanced copy of the audio version of Alice Feeney’s Good Bad Girl.

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✨ARC Book Review: Good Bad Girl✨

Pub. Date: 8/29/23
Rating:⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

Twenty years ago, a baby was stolen out of her stroller at the supermarket…

…and now, four women’s lives are about to intertwine. The question is, is this the first time? How are all of these women connected? Each woman has walked through pain at some point in her life. Each woman carries guilt with her to this day.

I loved how this story begins at THE END and ends at THE BEGINNING!

Edith became a new resident of a nursing home by her daughter, Clio. This happens to be where Patience works. Frankie, a prison librarian and the mother of Patience, also has a story to tell. There were so many characters bouncing from one perspective to the next; it’s harder to keep track of as an audiobook. I would recommend this as a physical book over audiobook for this reason. (Although, the narrator was wonderful!)

This plot has twists and turns and an ending you won’t be able to guess no matter how hard you try! Alice Feeney did it again!

I challenge you to read this book and try to figure out the ending! Thank you @netgalley for an advanced copy.

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Good Bad Girl is an intense, page turner that will keep you on the edge of your seat. What would you do if one day you finally had the family of your dreams and the baby you have always wanted? Just to have it all snatched away from your grasp in the blink of an eye. Would you just move on or would you stop at nothing to find your baby? Twenty years after a baby is stolen from a stroller, a woman is murdered in a care home. The two crimes are somehow linked, and a good bad girl may be the key to discovering the truth. Chloe becomes a therapist after the loss of her baby and her marriage. Patience is a young girl working as a care aid in a nursing home where she meets Edith. Will Patience be able to get one over on the young caregiver or will Patience get one over on the old woman? Just when you think you have the ending of this book figured out in typical Alice Feeney fashion you will be thrown through a loop and taken on a wild ride!!! The ending of this book, I can’t even express how much action, drama and craziness happened. 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

Good Bad Girl is the sort of book that needs a character map. With four distinct female voices, Good Bad Girl follows four women whose lives seem to be entirely unrelated, but Alice Feeney strings them together in a twisty, wild way. Frankie did something bad, Patience is working illegally in a care home, Edith wants out of the care home, and Clio doesn't want her mom to move back in. Mixed in to all that, there's a missing baby...or two.

I enjoyed the kick off, I loved the concept, but boy was there a lot happening. We're in several settings, with four separate seeming stories that are connected in weird ways. This book was absolutely impossible to track on audio, with the narration voices too similar to follow for a story with so many female narrators. I found myself confused several times and ultimately relied on spoilers to figure out what had occurred.

It's a story about mothers and the plight of mothers, about the way women often band together, but also how we fall apart, about the world and how it pits us against each other. It's a great suburban drama, but it was difficult on audio. I'd give it another go as a physical book, but would keep notes next time.

Rating: 4.5/5 Stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨
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Good Bad Girl takes place twenty years after a baby is taken from a stroller. Enter Edith, Patience, Clio and Frankie, four women whose lives are separate yet intertwined in ways you could never imagine. Told in a multi point of view and between the past and present you’ll never guess the ending!
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Alright Alice Feeney fans listen up - this book is amazing! This is not your typical dark Feeney. This is more of a family drama with a twisty mystery. Some how Feeney managed to take such an interesting concept weave in so many twist and turns and so many lies and deceptions your head will be spinning. Yeah, of course I wanted more “Daisy Darker” / “His & Hers” / “Rock Paper Scissors” but this one hit me in the gut with its absolute rawness of motherhood and the “gray” areas of life when right becomes wrong and wrong becomes right.
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I am a sucker for quoting books, but I cant do that with this one because honestly then I would be quoting the entire book, there were so many that resonated with me. Feeney absolutely nails all the emotions we as mothers feel on a daily basis; not just mothers though, we as people. “We are not born with mapped-out lives, we are the cartographers of our own destiny.”
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This one is a slow burn, and I’ll say it.. a bit confusing with the characters in the beginning and how they could possibly be connected, but I promise you, this one is well worth the ride. Feeney created a masterpiece with this one, one that will surely stick with me for a long while. I love that this wasn’t her typical book, this was something new, it was refreshing, it was addicting and it was such a gem. I literally felt this book in my soul.
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This one is narrated by Katherine Press and Stephanie Racine and these two were great. I found them to compliment on another and they carried this story flawlessly. I definitely recommend the Audiobook!
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I highly am recommending all my thriller friends and Feeney lovers to give this one a go - it really is great! Good Bad Girl just released yesterday 8/29! Go grab your copy today!
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Huge thank you to NetGalley, Alice Feeney and Macmillan Audio for my ALC

I listened to the audio version of this which was well done. It was a good thriller with a few twists I didn’t see coming. It takes awhile for the story to unfold and for everything to come together, and I liked that about it. I love how most of the characters are not good or bad and the situations they’re in are not black or white. It’s refreshing to read about people that are a little bit of both because isn’t that reality for the most part? I liked the main characters even despite their flaws. The ending wrapped everything up perfectly.

Good Bad Girl by Alice Feeney is another winner from an incredible author. Just like in her previous novels (yes, I've devoured ALL of them), the twists don't stop coming. And so many of Feeney's sentences quotable catnip for me. I listened to the audio this time (the narrator, Katherine Press, was fantastic!!) but I also love reading her books so I can highlight my favorite snippets. Highly recommend!!!