4.25
I have enjoyed everything I’ve read of Alice Feeney’s and this one did not disappoint. It definitely leans more towards mystery than thriller but a great read nonetheless! #netgalley

One baby given up for adoption, one stolen from their stroller. One mother who has struggled to recover from that loss and with her relationship with her own mother. Lots of complicated relationships to navigate in this novel.

Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things.

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.

Edith may have been tricked into a nursing home, but at eighty-years-young, she’s planning her escape. Patience works there, cleaning messes and bonding with Edith, a kindred spirit. But Patience is lying to Edith about almost everything.

Edith’s own daughter, Clio, won’t speak to her. And someone new is about to knock on Clio’s door…and their intentions aren’t good.

With every reason to distrust each other, the women must solve a mystery with three suspects, two murders, and one victim. If they do, they might just find out what happened to the baby who disappeared, the mother who lost her, and the connections that bind them.

My Thoughts: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
@alicewriterland is an auto-buy author for me and her newest dark and twisty mystery is packed full of secrets and morally ambiguous characters. Told through multiple POVs and dual timelines, you will be captivated from page one and find yourself questioning each unreliable character. The way each character’s life is interconnected through the present murders and past missing baby are brilliant! Feeney never fails to leave me 💯 satisfied with her shocking conclusions. The audiobook narration by Katherine Press and Ste phanie Racine was propulsive and full of nuanced emotions. Patience’s youth and naïveté were clear and the Clio and Frankie’s anguish over their missing daughters brought tears to my eyes! Excellent performances!

Thank you to @netgalley @macmillan.audio for my advanced listener’s copy in exchange for my honest review.

Good Bad Girl grips you right from the very beginning.

A story that unravels through multiple POVs, has you grasping for more with every little piece of information pulled back layer by layer. With two murders, three suspects, and one victim, you're left second-guessing the outcome right up until the reveal at the end.

With each character's rotating perspective, we're given the pieces of the puzzle from the outside in until finally the piece that links everything together and completes the picture is placed at just the right moment. A reveal that wasn't anticipated left me longing for more even at the end of the story.

A wonderfully written mystery that keeps you intrigued and wanting the next piece with each passing chapter.

I absolutely loved every twist and turn that this book took me on! I did not expect many of them, and was left with my mouth hanging open. Also, that ending! Wowzers!! You did it again Alice, I am so thankful I was able to get an ARC of this book!

Everybody has a mother, yet not everybody has a mothers love. The love a daughter has for her mother is imperative.
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Sometimes good people do bad things and Sometimes doing the wrong thing feels right. Fact: choices made early in life follow you into the present.
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As a parent, you try to instill a sense of right and wrong in your kids. But as a parent, you usually get it wrong more often than you get it right.
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Frankie Fletcher’s daughter is missing. Frankie spends her days working as a prison librarian.
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Patience spends her days working at the Windsor care home. She met Edith in the care home.
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Edith’s spends her days living at Windsor care home. She rather be in her own home with her dog. The end of her story is the beginning of there’s.
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Cleo Kennedy is Edith’s daughter. Cleo spends her days counseling patients in her home.
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Alice Feeney’s newest psychological thriller Good Bad Girl is a sensational story about mother’s and daughters and the secrets and lies they tell each other to survive. Feeney paints her characters both in good and bad light. It’s a vicarious game balancing the good and bad in one’s life. Life rewards good deeds while punishing bad deeds. These are good people who made bad choices.
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Feeney’s writing style is clean and concise. This is a thought provoking story allowing readers to explore the characters choices. Feeney delivers a riveting plot concept capturing audiences attention from the start.
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All four characters are interconnected by choices. Try as I might I wasn’t able to solve this murder mystery on my own. Feeney wrote a clever plot twist leaving readers with a mind blowing outcome. I like to think myself a pretty good amateur detective until I met the words and clever mind of Feeney.
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Good Bad Girl is about three suspects, two murders, and one victim. I enjoyed unriddling the secrets. Feeney left readers plenty of clues. She saved the best for last.
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What I wouldn’t give to have the ebook words to follow along with. Don’t get me wrong listening to this audiobook offers an exceptional experience. I’m more of an eyes and ears person.
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Katherine Press and Stephanie Racine are the two female performers. I’m not familiar enough with either of there voices to distinguish which part was narrated by who. Both were impressive in their voice acting skills.

An abducted baby, a nursing home murder and a lot of unreliable narrators.

Once again, Feeney got me with a major twist I didn't see coming. Love the way she weaves each individual plot line into an ending of bombshell reveals.

I did miss the creep factor in this book. His & Hers, Rock Paper Scissors and Daisy Darker all had a suspenseful element that made my skin crawl a bit. They kept me flipping pages and holding my breath. This was a great read but I just missed that feeling.

I will preface by saying I have read and liked several Alice Feeney titles. Unfortunately, I will need to rank this low. With the confusing POVs and timelines, musings of motherhood, and overt platitudes injected to move the plot along - Good Bad Girl did not resonate with me. About 80% through, the POVs began to intertwine, but it was an absolute slog to get there. The best part of this book was the fabulous narration by Stephanie Racine and Katherine Press. I appreciate when the same person is used for an author's titles.

Thanks to NetGalley and MacMillan audio for an advanced audio copy of this title!

Thank you to Net Galley and Macmillan audio for this advanced copy of the audiobook for Good Bad Girl.

Twenty years ago a baby was stollen from a carrier. Now, we are following four women after a woman is murdered in a nursing home. Throughout the book we are piecing together the puzzle of how all of these women are connected to each other and the event that occurred twenty years ago.

I really enjoyed this audiobook. Typically audiobooks are hard for me to stay focused on but this one I flew through and captivated my attention.

This was another fun twisty story from Alice Feeney where everything finally connects at the very end.

Alice Feeney is one of my favorite thriller authors. That being said, this book fell a little flat for me. I listened to the audiobook and had a hard time distinguishing between characters. There are four main characters, none of which are very likable. I finally found the storyline coming together around 60% into the book, but it never grabbed my interest.

Good Bad Girl AUDIO by Alice Feeney is purported to be a thriller but it falls short and is more of a mystery, if that. I listened to Daisy Darker and loved it so I went for this one and was disappointed. For one thing, I had it mostly figured out way before each reveal. It was a convoluted story of mothers and daughters, more than anything, and some of the women in it were seriously disturbed. As the relationships became more clear, the dysfunction also became more clear. It also confirmed my distrust of nursing homes and other homes for the aged. I simply did not love it.

The book was narrated by Katherine Press and Stephanie Racine who both did a credible job keeping a set of confusing characters separate from one another until each reveal took place. It was a purposely confusing book and these ladies did it justice.

I was invited to listen to a free audio version of Good Bad Girl by Macmillan Audio, through Netgalley. All thoughts and opinions are mine. #Netgalley #MacMillanAudio #AliceFeeney #KatherinePress #StephanieRacine #GoodBadGirl

I love Alice Feeney books and was hooked into this one right away

At first I found it a bit confusing keeping up with the different characters on audio but it got easier.

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I did not see the ending coming or how it all played out. I can’t imagine what Clio went thru having a child missing. One of my greatest fears.

The narrator did a good job and was enjoyable to listen.

This wasn’t my fav book by Feeney but was still good.

“One person’s truth is rarely exactly the same as someone else’s. Truth tends to stretch and bend out of shape to best fit its owner. People remember things differently. And our memories can make liars out of us all.”

This new, domestic suspense thriller from Alice Feeney was an entertaining ride! I’ve read almost all of this author’s books and pretty much always feel like her stories deliver for me. There is something about the twisty, bendy characters she writes that have all their flaws and still pull you in rather quickly. This book is a slower pace than her usual reads, but I found it helped bring me into the story even more. Not a favorite from this author for me, but still a solid release that I can see people enjoying!

The audiobook was especially fantastic and one I definitely recommend! We follow multiple different women and learn about their pasts, relationships with those around them, and their thoughts/feelings toward their families. The premise of “sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things” definitely piqued my interest before I even began this read!

Thanks so much to the publisher, Flatiron, and Macmillan Audio for the audio ARC via NetGalley. All thoughts in this review are my own. Good Bad Girl has a pub date of August 29, 2023.

I was pleasantly surprised by this book. At first I was confused by the switching of voices, but once I got to know the characters it brought the story together. Overall, good read!

I have enjoyed the books I’ve read by Alice Feeney and this book was no exception. I enjoyed that the story is told from the perspective of several different women and from two different timelines. This story is about flawed mothers and their daughters. This book is about hope and forgiveness but also about how far the ripples from our mistakes can go. I liked the characters in this book, even the characters that aren’t likable were well done. I will admit that I didn’t find it to be this author’s most twisty book I loved the way the story very slowly came together. This book is a mystery about a murder but also about a kidnapping that was never solved. This is a hard book to truly describe without giving things away so I will direct you to the description but also suggest you just pick this one and give it a try. I listened to this one on audiobook and I feel like the narrator did an excellent job bringing all of the characters to life.

I really wanted to love this one. At first I really did, but as It went I got confused. All the characters and names I found my self a little less interested as it went. Things I really liked were the mother/daughter relationship and the realness of how complicated they can be. As the story went the twists and turns came together with a satisfying ending. I really liked the narrator of the book, it was really enjoyable listen.
3.5

Thank you to @micmillanaudio and Netgalley for my #gifted copy

Good Bad Girl is the fourth book I’ve read from Alive Feeney and I honestly just can’t get enough of her. In this read, Feeney weaves a tale of several people together so intricately that you cannot figure out how all the piece fit until the very end. It left me absolutely gasping in surprise. You won’t be sorry you gave it a go.

I found the story to be kind of slow to start, but characters need to be developed somehow i guess. I didn't get me interested until about 50% through the book and even then I wasn't thoroughly hooked. I did find the book confusing at times, I was having a hard time following the plot and the different points of view. It did all get tied together in the end but I had to keep rewinding parts to make sure I heard them correctly because I was slightly confused. With that being said, I thought I knew where the story was going, but NOPE, I was wrong, so it did have a few surprises which I enjoyed. I think all in all it was a well written book and in the end I did like it but I feel like it took too long to get there.

The audiobook was narrated by Katherine Press and Stephanie Racin. I found the the volume of the characters seemed to be different, some were quiet and some were loud. When listening I had to keep turning the volume up and down depending on the chapter/character.

I have read other books by Alice Feeney and enjoyed them, but this one didn't really do it for me.

Thank you to Macmillan Audio and NetGalley for providing me with an early copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I did enjoy this reading experience, despite being confused for the first 40% or so. When there are multiple POVs, you know the characters have to be connected and trying to piece that puzzle together was a fun experience. This wasn't my favorite Alice Feeney book, but I would still give it 3.5 stars! Overall, I found Good Bad Girl to be a twisty read with a satisfying ending.

Thank you to NetGalley for the arc in return for an honest review.

Alice Feeny, the queen of clever twists, never disappoints! I loved Good Bad Girl, specifically the audio version that had wonderful narrators. This book had a complex plot with 4 different character POV’s that had me engaged from start to finish, but was also easy to follow. Such an emotional and addictive thriller!