This was my first read by Alice Feeney but definitely will not be my last! This book definitely kept you guessing! 5 stars

Thank you to Macmillan Audio for the advanced copy!

This highly suspenseful novel had me on the edge of my seat! I truly enjoyed the unraveling of the mysteries in this book. Quirky characters made this book super intriguing! I also loved the different POVs. Each chapter flipped back and forth between narrators. I recommend this to those who want suspense but not gore or violence in a thriller!

Thanks Netgalley for the ARC! I discovered Alice Feeney a couple of years ago and love her books. They always have a great twist. However, this one didn't shock or surprise me like some of her others. I still enjoyed the story and think it would make an awesome book club discussion!

I LOVE Alice Feeny's books, and I always prefer audio book, because who ever is narrating always gets the job done!

The books has twists and turns, per usual and I love them all, because just when I think that I have everything figured out, I'm always wrong as usual!!

Patience, Edith, Cleo, Frankie and Jude certainly all have a story to tell and they all know each other whether they realize it or not, as they soon find out how their past and present weave together.

As far as mystery thrillers go, this one seemed a tad mild. But it was exciting to learn how everything tied together in the end!

LOVED!! I am an Alice Feeney fan, and she continues to prove she is an auto-but author. First, I’d love to commend the narrator on an excellent performance. One scene in particular where she portrayed DC Charlotte Chapman, I was so impressed.

I thought the book had great pacing, and left just enough at the end of each chapter to leave me wanting to listen for just five more minutes.

Overall, a solid story that I would recommend to all lovers of the genre.

Wow, this book pleasantly surprised me! This was my first Alice Feeney read, and it had me hooked through the whole story. The twists… the intertwined characters… so many things I never saw coming. This also gave me a new appreciation for ladybugs! This is a perfect murder mystery for fall.

Good Bad Girl
Alice Feeney
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Fantastic Book!! This was my first time with this Author. I've had her other books in my TBR pile. I'm so excited to move them up to the top of my pile. LOL
This story & characters were great! It was full of twist and turners & more just when you think you have it figured out or guessed. It keeps you on the edge wanting to know the rest of the story.
Also there were so many Amazing quotes throughout the book that you don't expect in a Thriller. It was a GREAT BOOK!
Thank you Netgallery!
Thank you Alice Feeney for the great Thriller!
Publish date 8/28/2023

“The world is full of people who are good at being bad, and people who are bad at being good.”

The book begins with a baby snatched from a mother on Mother’s Day. Twenty years later, it is another Mother’s Day and we are introduced to a new set of characters.

Frankie is struggling with the loss of her teen daughter who ran away from home. She finds it extremely hard to connect with people. She works as a librarian in a women’s prison collecting and sharing her love for books with the inmates.

Edith, an eighty-year-old woman was tricked into a care home by her daughter, Clio. Edith hates the place and the fact that her daughter left her in the place without her pet, Dickens. Her only friend/solace in the care home is Patience, the young caretaker who has secrets of her own.

Clio is a therapist and has an unusual relationship with her mother, Edith. While she helps her clients deal with their problems, she is unable to find a solution for the issues that plague her mind, especially relating to her relationship with Edith.

The chapters alter between these four characters. I absolutely loved how the story unfolds through the different relationships and explores the ups and downs of motherhood, and the dynamics between mother-daughter relationships. The real drama begins with a murder and with Edith’s disappearance. Shortly, there’s news of another murder. It becomes evident soon that each of the four women has something to hide and nothing is as it seems. Two murders, four women, and three suspects.

The best part of reading this book for me was how I kept thinking I knew where the story was going only to be surprised by the exciting twists and turns Alice Feeney cleverly wove into this thriller. Each character has their own unique voice and is fully fleshed out. If I do have to point out a negative, then it would be the initial confusion in the beginning chapters while the four main characters and their relationships are set up. It did feel like there were too many characters and you had to keep a close watch as to what happened to whom and who said what!

I give it a 4.5 stars out of 5. If you love reading domestic thrillers that keep you guessing and changing your mind until the very end, then this book is perfect for you.

Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the audiobook. I am leaving this review voluntarily.

All I can say is, the ending was not what I expected. Alice Feeney did a fantastic job of weaving a web of mystery and leading you towards a conclusion without deceiving the reader. Although I had correctly predicted "whodunnit", I did not predict how everything came together. Once it was presented though, I had to take a few moments to think back through the book and look for what I had missed.

I also appreciated the format of this book. It began at the end and ended at the beginning, which was a refreshing take compared to many modern mysteries. Very well done!

I listened to the audiobook ARC thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio in exchange for an honest review.

It was my first time solely listening to an audiobook without reading along, so I was a little confused at times but the fact that the narrator had distinctly different and clear accents made it so much easier to judge who was speaking. As for the story, it was intriguing and fast-paced, with a few twists thrown in. I love the family values at the core of the book as well.

Good Bad Girl is one of the most frustrating books I have read, but in a good way! The way the story is set up is perfectly for the cliffhangers to keep me hooked and ready to discover all of the secrets. This is not a book that I wanted to put down at all!

Thank you to NetGalley and MacMillan audio for the ALC of this book. This is my first Alice Feeney novel and I can see why people love her. Every time I thought I knew what was happening, there was another wrench thrown into the story line.

I'm knocking off a star because the story dragged a bit in the middle and it was quite confusing keeping track of characters in audio form. Otherwise I think this is a great story for mystery/thriller lovers!

I will definitely be reading more of Alice's backlist!

HOLY CRAP!!
Another phenomenal book from Alice Feeney!!!!
Just as I found in a couple of her others that I've read...just when I think I've got it all figured out, I am proven wrong...over and over again!
Sometimes good people have to do bad things… 🐞
So the story begins in the PAST...at the END...on Mother's Day.
Clio's daughter, who is about 6 months old, is STOLEN from her carriage while they are shopping at the grocery store! Clio is obviously distressed... but can she EVER get over this??
Back to the present.... Edith, Clio's Mom has been tricked into living in a nursing home. She is NOT happy, and does NOT want to be there! Not only that, but she thinks that her friend who recently died there, did not die naturally...she thinks she was murdered.
Again...back in the present... Patience is an aide at the nursing home. She has her own sordid past, and basically lies about any and everything...BUT, she is NOT a bad person...just a big liar. She and Edith seem to have formed a wonderful bond, even though one is in her 80's and the other is a teenager... And the dog...well, what else can I say...there's a dog too!! :)
Add in JOY, the head of the nursing home, who is anything BUT joyful. And the fact that Clio was called in to the nursing home because the payments are not being met... and so she will need to find somewhere else for her to live! No compassion whatsoever!
Then we have Jude, the brother, who has nothing nice to say about anything.
And then there's Frankie, who works at the library at the jail. She has her own problems, and what helps her to get through is counting...steps, people, lights, whatever.
So yes, there is A LOT going on in this book, and A LOT of different POV's...but it is absolutely amazing, to the point I'd say JAW dropping multiple times!!
And the way she just ties ALL the pieces together in the end...SUPERB!
This is scheduled to be released on August 29th! So if it sounds good to you, please pick it up!
Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the ARC of this wonderful audiobook!!
Cannot say enough good things about this one, but if you've read her in the past, you will definitely understand!!
5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for me!

This book was wild! I will 100% recommend someone read it with their eyes instead of listening to it. While the audio book was well done and the characters were well differenciated, it was just difficult to remember who did what how many chapters ago and being able to flip back a few pages would be convenient. I liked the book enough but feel other Feeney's were a little better.

Good Bad Girl by Alice Feeney is told from multiple POVs. There’s Frankie who works at a prison and is searching for her lost child. Patience, an 18 year old who is a trainee at a care home. Edith, an elderly woman that resides in the care home and Cleo, a therapist who is Edith’s daughter. The story weaves the lives of these women and divulges how they intersect.

Alice Feeney is the queen of intricately weaving characters together. She does a beautiful job of intersecting and connecting each character.

I thought I knew what happened pretty early on but a twist was thrown in there at the very end that caught me off guard. Personally I would have liked a few more plot twists throughout the book. Since I had 90% of the book figured out in the beginning I started to get bored. I think I few more twists would have kept me on my toes.

Alice Feeney has a very easy writing style. It’s easy to fall into her books. I highly recommend all of her books.

Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan audio for a free copy of the audiobook in exchange for an honest review. I enjoyed the audiobook. The narrators, Katherine Press and Stephanie Racine. do a great job. The different voices really helps you keep track of all the characters and the pacing was good. The audiobook flowed nicely.

A huge thanks to Macmillan Audio for an advanced copy of Good Bad Girl by Alice Feeney

Her books are always so entertaining and have such good twists. I always enjoy her thrillers so I was looking forward to Good Bad Girl especially on audiobook which is my favorite way to read thrillers!

I enjoyed Good Bad Girl but it took me a while to get into it since there are so many characters and trying to figure out how they all connected. I thought the settings and premise were fun, especially once everything was revealed. It had a few twists I was expecting but I did have a surprise or two!

I don't want to give too much away so I'll leave you with Good Bad Girl is a slow build domestic thriller that I enjoyed but it's not my favorite by Alice Feeney.

I love Alice Feeney books on audio and it's just over 9 hours and both narrators did a great job.

Good Bad Girl comes out next Tuesday - August 29th.

Thank you #Netgalley for the ARC audiobook. I always enjoy Alice Feeney's works and this novel was in line with her others.

There are 4 women who narrate this book: Frankie, Patience, Edith, and Clio.

Frankie is a librarian at a prison and is dealing with the fact that her 18 year old daughter ran away from home. Patience is Frankie's daughter who ran away. Patience works at a nursing home taking care of Edith. Edith is in the nursing home because of her daughter, Clio. Clio is a psychologist who lives in a pretty pink house. After the nursing home's manager, Joy, is murdered, the lives of these 4 women start to intersect in twists and turns.

Overall, a good read. The first half was a bit slow, but as all of the details come togehter in the midpoint, my reading speed picked up. There is a final twist that took me awhile to latch onto, because I didn't pick up on any earlier clues. 4/5 stars.

This one was good! I enjoyed the narrator. I will admit that at first, it was tough for me to keep the characters and their storylines straight. I didnt expect the ending though and I love how Feeney always has multiple plot twists.

What a ride! Alice Feeney is literally the queen of twists and turns! I swear I got whiplash by the time I was done. I found myself taking the longer way home so I didn't have to turn it off. Really well written, great characters and a wtf ending! Thank you so much!