I’m a fan of Alice Feeney and the way she can create a cozy spooky vibe out of her settings. I had a little trouble following all of the characters but overall the story and ending was very satisfying.

Alice Feeney is one of my fav authors and I always know I’m in for a fun entertaining read with her books. Good Bad Girl wasn’t her typical twisty thriller, it felt more like a family drama with a touch of mystery and was more of a slow burn character driven story. While I enjoyed it, I was able to predict the entire plot and kept waiting for the big twist that never came. It’s not my fav of hers, but I still liked it.

I had a few writing style choices I didn’t understand. The detective’s description was repeated by every person who saw her, some more than once! By the end I was tired of hearing about her pink strip of hair, her different colored nails, how young she looks, etc. I thought for sure it had to be tied in to something, but it did not. There is also a lot of word play with “good” and “bad” which leads to some interesting thoughts, but also became very repetitive.

This has more introspective musings than I’m used to in a thriller, but would give some good discussion topics for a book club! I split time between the physical and audiobook and would recommend either format. Both narrators did a great job, but I did have some trouble hearing one at times when she dropped off the end of her sentences into a whisper talk.

Thanks to Macmillan Audio and Flatiron Books for the ALC/ARC.

My favorite Alice Feeney novel so far!

I listened to the audiobook and thought the narration was excellent. It’s narrated by two separate women to cover the multiple POVs within the book and I enjoyed both narrators.

It took me awhile to actually get into the book. I would have put the book at a 3 star read up until about the halfway point, after that I was hooked and didn’t want to stop listening to the story.
I really enjoyed the last half of the book. There were multiple pieces I didn’t anticipate that kept me guessing what would happen next or who did what and how things would turn out up until the very end.

Thank you to NetGalley and MacMillan Audio for this audiobook ARC!

A mother who is regretting having her baby. Then, one day, the baby is missing from her stroller at the supermarket. Somebody had taken her. She knows who it was, and she knows why. A murder occurs at a nursing home and a resident has gone missing. Is it just a coincidence? Is there such a thing?

Who would have thought a story partially based in a nursing home would have so much excitement to it! This book has multiple points of view from four characters whose lives are intertwined in ways they couldn’t imagine. I listened to the audio version, and the narrator was EXCELLENT. The book was a little hard to keep up with at first because of the multiple viewpoints, but it eventually started coming together. The stories take place in the present and past and have you scratching your head to see how the pieces are going to come together in this puzzle of a domestic thriller. If you’re looking for a domestic thriller that has a different story line from the norm with a lot of twists and turns, this would be a great one to pick up!

Thank you to Macmillan Audio and NetGalley for an advanced reader copy.

Good Bad Girl is the latest release from the Queen of the Twist, Alice Feeney. I'm not ashamed to start this review by saying I am a Feeney-Fangirl. I love her stories. As for this one, I have been anticipating it all year and am so happy to report, it did not disappoint.

I loved the tagline of this book's synopsis: 'Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things.' From the moment I read that I wanted to know more. Like the tagline, the book itself delivered that kind of intriguing teaser, chapter after chapter. This story does follow multiple perspectives and initially, I'll admit, to having moments of slight confusion.

I didn't let that bother me though. I trust Feeney's process and knew all would be revealed in good time. I just sat back, relaxed and let the story flow over me. It was amazing.

This follows 80-year old, Edith, currently residing in Windsor Care Home, but it wasn't by her choice and she's not happy about it. Patience, a care home worker, is Edith's closest confidant, but she's harboring secrets of her own. Edith's daughter, Clio, gets most of the brunt of her mother's anger about her current living situation and with Mother's Day upon them, that should make for an interesting visit. Frankie, a librarian at a prison, is also saddened with Mother's Day approaching, but for reasons of her own. Her only daughter left home in anger a year ago and she hasn't seen her since.

After a murder at the care home, things begin to really heat up for our characters. People on the run, confrontations, incidents with the police, it's non-stop action and eyebrow-raising reveals until the very end.

As mentioned above, initially the number of perspectives did seem like a lot, but they were all interesting. I never minded learning more about each specific character. Additionally, discovering the truth behind how all the perspectives were connected was just so fun. There were a lot of different layers to the drama.

One aspect of this I found especially interesting was how a lot of this has to do with individuals, who are in a vulnerable position, having decisions made for them. Then it sort of unpacked the circumstances and the repercussions of that. The relationships involved in these scenarios, while over the top here, were actually quite relatable and believable. Particularly those pertaining to an aging parent, or to the early stages of motherhood.

I feel like Feeney did a great job bringing that level of substance to her signature style of twisty-Thriller. The added element to it all was the murder mystery at the heart of the story. That was so fun to try to figure out.
Overall, I think Feeney delivered with this one. It's a real page-turner. If you have patience with it and let the perspectives fall into place, I think you'll be able to enjoy it as much as I did.

Thank you so much to the publisher, Macmillan Audio, for providing me with a copy to read and review. At this point, I will pick up anything Alice Feeney writes. I have never been disappointed. Her perfect record continues!

Read if you like:
👩‍👧Mother Daughter Relationships
🍼 Missing Children Cases
#️⃣ Multiple POV
🐞 Ladybugs
⏳ Alternating Timelines

This story opens on Mother’s Day 20 Years ago when a baby is abducted in the grocery store, and the woman who had the child stolen from her indicates she knew who stole the child but didn’t tell the police who it was.

We then start to pop around multiple points of view to include:
👩🏼‍🍼 The woman whose child was kidnapped 20 years ago
👵🏼 A Mother in a nursing home who is very upset about being there
👩🏼 The Daughter that put her mother in a nursing home
🚶🏻‍♀️A woman with severe anxiety who’s daughter recently ran away from home
🤷🏻‍♀️ A Young adult who ran away from her mother who works in a nursing home

I enjoyed the weaving and twists and turns this one took, but ultimately I was saddened by how predictable this one felt as it felt like all the reveals were things that I guessed and was very sure of before they happened aside from smaller twists/reveals that weren’t as substantial.

All in all, this isn’t my favorite from Alice Feeney but also not my least favorite either. Alice is one of my favorite Thriller authors but this one just didn’t rise to the the top of her books for me unfortunately.

As far as the audio, I the narrators did a great job and it was an enjoyable listen i just would have wished for at least two more narrators to enjoy it more.

Thank you so much to MacMillan Audio for my ALC of this one.

A baby gets taken from its stroller at a supermarket. Twenty years later, a murder occurs at a care home. Somehow, these two crimes are connected.

Our main characters are:
Edith: a resident of a care home.
Patience: a young aide at the care home
Clio: a therapist with a strained relationship with her mother
Frankie: a prison librarian who's daughter has run away
Each characters story is a little hard to keep track of initially, but once the reader finds out how each is connected to the other, wow! Some relationships are obvious, but there were some twists that I wasn't expecting! Every one of these women has something to hide, and I loved how it all unravelled. Alice Feeney has never disappointed me and I will continue to look forward to her new releases each year. I listened to the audio version and really enjoyed the narration.

This book was a pleasant surprise! After loving Rock Paper Scissors, but disliking Daisy Darker, I wasn't sure what to expect. This story demonstrates what Alice Feeney does best; she delivers small clues a bit at a time until we have the full picture of what happened. Just the right amount of information is given as the story progresses, but there is still a great twist towards the end.

Unlike Daisy Darker, this story, while still a bit unrealistic, seemed at least plausible. It wasn't as creepy or suspenseful as RPS, but I was still very invested in the characters and couldn't wait to find out how everything came together!

The audiobook was expertly performed! I love Stephanie Racine, and the other narrator did a great job with Patience's sections too.

Alice Feeney is a master at keeping you guessing until the very end and Good Bad Girl does not disappoint. This story weaves through different viewpoints as well as time, a slow-burning mystery that will leave you stunned more than once. What I love most about Feeney's style of writing is the breadcrumbs she leaves throughout the story. There will be little hints that you begin to realize are more significant than they originally seemed and eventually all come together into a cohesive tale. It leaves me always wanting more! I highly recommend!

This book came out in August and is so so good - it is actually one of my favorite Alice Feeney books that I have read! It is full of unreliable narrators within a story of mother-daughter relationships. We have a daughter who doesn’t feel accepted and runs away when she doesn’t get the answers she needs. We have a mom who is mourning her runaway daughter and trying to find a way to keep her without giving everything of herself away. We have a mother at the end of her life, trying to make things right in a way that not everyone understands. And, we have another daughter who has her own secrets and can’t seem to move on from where she is because everyone else’s decisions seem to dictate her life.
The artistry of the author is the way she combines and weaves these stories together. Nothing in this book is cut and dry and every small detail is important. This story map must have taken up a whole wall in her writing space because it is magically written and I loved and hated each of the characters at different times throughout the book. Then, she offered an ending that was satisfying without being contrived.

As a HUGE fan of Alice Feeney, I have been waiting to get my hands on this audiobook (or book, whichever!) for a weeks! That being said, this is the first Feeney audiobook I have listened to, so maybe the "wow factor" just wasn't as Prominet as when I physically read her work... Where was the thrill? What about the darkness? This was more of a mystery novel than the usual twists and turns of a typical Feeney book. The quick chapters made it easy to breeze through the story.

All in all, the story was solid and interesting, I just had higher expectations with the Feeney name backing this work.

Thrillers are my favorite genre to read as an audiobook and I listened to Sometime I Lie by this author during a long road trip and ended up giving it 5 stars, so I was super excited for this latest audiobook by Alice Feeney. I think mystery/thriller audiobooks ends up increasing the suspense as it seems harder to figure out what's going on when you don't have words on a page to overanalyze. I ALSO love when there are several narrators in an audiobook, which this one has! Both narrators (Katherine Press, Stephanie Racine) did an incredible job with making the characters come alive.

Look at that beautiful cover! Good Bad Girl has a lot of elements that are Feeney's signature: feeling like you know what's going on but you actually don't, unlikeable characters that still manage to capture your sympathy/understanding, and twists delivered at just the right moments. For the first 1/3 of the book I was struggling to keep up with what was going on, so many different perspectives and weird stuff happening. The great thing about audiobooks too is you just keep trucking along and eventually you catch up.

I unfortunately never felt very invested or even very interested in the story. Some of the characters' actions felt unrealistic or just confusing. This book felt like lukewarm coffee: it was fine and it did the trick, but not my favorite. I will definitely still be picking up Alice Feeney's next, because she has become an auto-read for me.

I was able to listen to an ARC audiobookof the book Good Bad Girl by Alice Feeney. I had read a lot of great things in anticipation of this book. The book kept my interest throughout with different voice narrators and there being a different POV for each chapter. You follow the story of a baby taken and what happens in the decades since then. I would recommend this to other readers.

Thank You to NetGalley, the publisher, and the author for this ARC audiobook.

I love Alice Feeney! I don't think she can write a bad book. It took me a little bit to get into this one as not much was happening in the beginning, slow burn, but pick up it did. The story got better and better, with suspense, and a few twists. As the book went along, the ending was really the beginning and explained everything. WOW. One of the things Feeney does well is her characters. She has such in-depth characters and does well at making them believable, likeable, and have depth to them. I would also recommend this as an audiobook. The narrator can make or break a book and this one did an excellent job.

I absolutely loved the narration!! I enjoyed the book. There were many times where I really wasn’t sure what was happening but not in a bad way. The book was fast paced and I really enjoyed the story telling. Overall great book and fabulous narrator

Thank you to the publisher and netgalley! Like many readers I find that Alice Feeney is one of the best as writing a great suspense-filled novel. This book features another theme of families and secrets. However, I couldn’t really connect with this novel and it didn’t capture my attention like AF’s other books :(

Thank you to Macmillan audio, Netgalley, and Alice Feeney for an advance copy of Good Bad Girl in exchange for honest review. I usually love Alice Feeney and truly find her writing to be genius but this one fell flat for me. I truly hope I am in the minority and others connected & enjoyed this one more then I did. The storyline was interesting but between all the characters and the bouncing between POVs, I found myself truly confused throughout most of the storyline. I did enjoy how the book ended up and would recommend giving it a go if youre a Feeney fan. I do look forward to seeing what she does in the future. This one is out next week on August 29th!

Sometimes bad things happen to good people…

….Sometimes good people have to do bad things.

That’s the overarching theme of Alice Feeney’s newest release Good Bad Girl. Set to release August 29th.

I hit the request button immediately when I saw this on NetGalley as she has quickly become one of my favorite thriller authors.

And while this is still true after finishing this, I will say that I think this is her weakest book.

A baby is stolen from a grocery store, 20 years later a murder happens in a nursing home, and a teen runs away.

Our story centers around how these events are connected and is told from several different POVs.

With Feeney you know that you are going to get several twist and turns along the way. For me none of these were super surprising but still made for an enjoyable read.

I did listen to the audiobook for this and I’m not sure that’s the best route for this book.

Kathrine Press and Stephanie Racine both do a good job with their narration but I’m an experienced audiobook listener and there are a decent amount of POV shifts and what felt like intentional confusion that I think may be easier to follow on the page.

The pacing was a bit up and down from what I’m used to in Feeney’s other works. But even with the slow burn mystery the premise is still executed well enough to keep me engaged.

I do think she accomplishes the delivery of novel that drive home her chosen theme and provides some believable (if not surprising) twist. While it wasn’t my favorite book from the author I still really enjoyed the ride and think that other thriller readers will as well.

Big thanks to Netgalley and Macmillan Audio for providing me with a chance to get in on this book early. I received this book for free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

Alice Feeney just know how to write a great suspense-filled novel. This interweaving of families and secrets is another win by her in my book.

I liked the narrator but as I was listening I was thinking that multiple narrators would be nice for the story, but after further consideration I know that would never work since multiple narrators would give some of the reveals away.

This is the first book I’ve ever read/listened to by Alice Feeney and I was impressed!

There are some real twists within this story. It’s one of those books that you have to keep up with characters because it’s told from several different point of views. But I did like that aspect because you got the real story from each characters view. I don’t really want to say a whole about this book because it would be easy to spoil the story. But I really enjoyed the audio, there were several moments that really struck my heart as a mother. I felt emotional as two of the characters , who happen to be mother & daughter, didn’t always get along or even misunderstood each other. It made me sad for their relationship, or even lack of one.

It was very interesting to see how this book wrapped up and ended. Like I said above, these characters were very intertwined with each other. And there was definitely a surprise that I didn’t see coming towards the end.

I would definitely recommend Good Bad Girl in audio. The narrators did a wonderful job with the book.

***Thank you Netgalley and Macmillan Audio for an ARC copy in return for an honest review***