In "Good Bad Girl," the author introduces us to a interesting psychological read that is a non-linear journey. The story unfolds in multiple perspectives, revealing complex characters and mysterious relationships. Set in both the present and the past, the plot is filled with intrigue, keeping me engaged and intrigued. As the narrative progresses, we are led deeper into the characters' lives, uncovering their secrets and flaws. The narrators, Katherine Press and Stephanie Racine, skillfully breathe life into the characters.
If you enjoy intricate plots, multi-layered characters, and a satisfying ending, then be sure to add this book to your tbr.

Yet another delightful suspense by Alice Feeny! In this newest by the author of Rock, Paper, Scissors and Daisy Darker, anattempted murder in an elderly care home is somehow linked to a baby going missing 20 years earlier. As the story goes back and forth between the two time periods more and more pieces fall into place and the characters are connected more than you’d ever expect them to be.

A woman is murdered in a care home and twenty years earlier a baby is stolen from a stroller. Somehow the two may be connected. There is one good bad girl that may be the missing link. Very intriguing and suspenseful!

I think I made a mistake by listening to the audio version of this book and it was very hard to follow. I adore Feeney’s books but this one was a bit confusing for me. It delivers though. It has all of the elements of a great thriller but it felt choppy at times. I didn’t remember who was who until I got to the middle of the book and I had to take notes.

The confusion actually benefited the suspense at times because I was shocked to see the next revelation. I did not figure it out until it got closer to the end. All the pieces started coming together.

Feeney is one of my top thriller authors and I think she is a master at her craft. I may buy this book down the line and read the print copy to get a different experience with it as I feel it truly is a great story and full of fantastic curlicues!

Thank you to NetGalley and Flatiron Books for the ARC. I appreciate it.

Well, alrighty then Feeney, I see you.

4 stars, ma'am. 4.5 stars, truly.

Let me just say that the only reason this book wasn't an automatic 5 stars from me is because there were a few times where I felt the story moved a little slowly and I would step away until I could handle that pacing... then it would pick up... repeat.

Anywhozzle, if you're looking for twists(multiple, people. MULTIPLE TWISTS) then you just do yourself a favor and add this baby to your TBR. I was expecting one *le gasp* moment and I think I got more like four.

Family drama? This book has it. Crime? This book has it. Snarky characters? Yep, we've got that right here, too. This book had everything I like in a mystery/thriller and I am so glad that I got the opportunity to experience this story.

This may be my first Alice Feeney book, but it will NOT be my last. Gimme me more.

This was my first Alice Feeney book and it won't be my last. This is more of a slow burn literary fiction with some mystery thrown in rather than a thriller but it was still very much enjoyable. It kept me engaged and I literally teared up over Edith's letter. Overall a good read. I look forward to reading more books from this author.

Book Releases August 29, 2023

Thank you to NetGalley and MacMillan Audio for the ALC

All thoughts and opinions are honest and my own.

I was excited to get the Advanced Listeners Copy from NetGalley because I have enjoyed Alice Feeney’s other books. The audiobook was well done and I enjoyed the narrator. Even though there were multiple female characters, it was easy to tell whose chapter it was. That said, I had trouble keeping the characters’ stories straight. The book has a very unique plot and I appreciated that. However, I didn’t find the characters to be very likable. I was confused for most of the book. The ending was tied up well and the twists were well done.

I love when characters converge and we’re able to see the connection between them. We had characters that were easy to like and empathize with that helped to examine the thin line between good and bad. This was a quick read with my favorite- multiple POV’s. I always enjoy Alice Feeney.

“Sometimes bad things happen to good people. So good people have to do bad things.”

This book departs a little from Feeney’s domestic thrillers that she does so well. There still is an overarching domestic theme with the “mother daughter” trope but I would describe it as more of a slow-burn mystery rather than a sinister thriller. Adjust your expectations before diving in!

It opens with a banger of a beginning - an infant snatched right out of her stroller in a grocery store - and then closely follows multiple women as we learn how their lives intertwine.

You’ll follow the perspectives of:
-the mother of the abducted infant
-a mother desperately searching for her runaway daughter
-the runaway daughter herself
-an elderly women residing in a nursing home
-and the daughter who placed her there

Each chapter bounces between these different POVs which left me feeling totally confused for pretty much the entire first half of the book. It was almost like I needed to take notes re: who’s who and what happened when because the POV and timelines kept changing. I understand that sometimes this type of writing can keep the reader turning pages but it left me feeling like my brain was working on overdrive just to keep up and made the read a lot less enjoyable

There were a few well-placed twists (some that I figured out, others that surprised me) that kept the story moving forward without being too over the top.

All in all it was a fun read but easily forgettable.

TLDR:
-multiple POV
-nonlinear timeline
-slow-burn mystery
-mother/daughter trope

Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan audio for proving an advance review copy in exchange for my honest review.

Set to publish on August 29th, 2023

Brilliantly twisty. Feeney knows how to keep you on the edge of your seat. This was not my favorite, but I love how she tells a great story and makes you suspect everyone.

Narration was excellent, and it brought the story and characters to life.

Good Bad Girl
Alice Feeney
Narrators: Katherine Press & Stephanie Racine
Pub Date: August 29, 2023
Macmillan Audio

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Good Bad Girl had be on the edge of my seat most of the story trying to figure out what was going to happen. I absolutely loved this thrilling mystery and could not listen fast enough! The twists! This book was full of them and I literally did not see any of them coming! This was your typical Alice Feeney book and I just devoured it!

The narrators, Katherine Press and Stephanie Racine were absolutely perfect for their rolls and I thought they were exceptional! I don’t think I’ve listened to any audiobooks with either of them as a narrator in the past, but I will definitely be looking for more by them in the future!

I highly recommend this one!

Read if you like:
☂️Multiple POV
☂️Nonlinear Timelines
☂️Character Driven Plots
☂️Murder Mysteries
☂️Untrustworthy Characters
☂️Short Chapters

Thank you Macmillan Audio, Alice Feeney and NetGalley for a #gifted copy of Good Bad Girl!

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Wow. I am an Alice Feeney fan and Good Bad Girl is just another reason why. Fabulous writing, great characters and lots of twists to keep you guessing. This time I listened to audio and the narration was great also. Sad that the book is over, I just loved listening to it. Will recommend to everyone!

Sheeeeee's Baaaaack!

So I am thinking authors are finally out of their Covid Slump! Peter Swanson, Riley Sager, Megan Gouldin and now Alice Feeney let me down with their previous few books, but she brought it in this book. Like she hit the hammer on the nail, bullseye and hole in one!

Alice Feeney's writing is full of "sayings" like “The world is full of people who are good at being bad, and people who are bad at being good.”just to name one. Her writing is genius and smooth. I think what I enjoyed most about this book was how vague Feeney presented the characters revealing just a bit at a time, and usually she would leave me the reader with a massive reveal at the end of a chapter and I would have to wait to circle back to that character's POV.
As I was reading this book I felt like my mind was working a rubics cube, given some of the pieces of a puzzle, but as the chapters unfold I could snap more and more blocks together until finally the end was complete and I could see how all the moving parts worked together (And against each other) to form a perfect ending.
I would suggest readings this book with total blinders. Don't even read the blurb like me. Just trust where Feeney takes you. I went into the book not knowing ANYTHING about the plot which really let me sink into the mystery. It also prevented me from guessing all the twist.All you need to know is:


3 Suspects 2 Murders 1 Victim


Although I couldn't help myself from making several (wrong!) predictions! I love being wrong (don't tell anyone I said that or that I admit to being wrong-ha!)
One final note: I love ladybugs!
Excellent book Feeney Fans, and those new to Feeney, welcome to an experience that will certainly leave you in awe of what a brilliant writer she is.
Props to the narrators Katherine Press and Stephanie Racine who do a phenomenal job.
Thank you Net Galley For this advanced copy listen of Good Bad Girl by Alice Feeney. I was not influenced for my honest review and thoughts.
Do yourself a favor go buy this when it is published: August 29 2023

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

This book was interesting, suspenseful and dramatic! It takes you on a twisty trip trying to figure out who these ladies really are. It had me confused in the best possible way and left me shocked at the ending!

Read if you enjoy:
🗣️Multiple POV’s
📝Short chapters
🙅🏼‍♀️Trust no one vibes
🔁Stories that intertwine
👩‍👧Mother/Daughter drama
🔎Murder Mysteries
🐶 Dogs

I'm not sure where should I even start with this review. To my surprise, the story doesn't seem true to the premise and description, because those are not women who team up to solve some crime, but women tangled by destiny and coincidence in family drama and their connection to each other. A little girl is kidnapped and 20 years later we get to know what happened that feral day. In about 40% I had the whole thing figured out. I feel like everything was so obvious that there was a need for an additional twist in the end that does not make much sense and felt forced. Another thing I noticed was the deliberate repetition of certain phrases that at the beginning could direct toward the solution, but in some cases, it seemed like sloppy writing. There is a hint that women across generations make the same mistakes, follow the same paths, jet having the same thoughts and feelings are not in that bucket, and did not convince me. None of those women were likable. I get, that nobody is perfect, but they think about themselves as good, yet they treat each other terribly. The way how they converse with each other was absolutely jarring. As far as audio goes, it was a good production, and it makes sense to me to use different voices towards each POV, yet I still had trouble at the beginning to differentiate each character. It's hard to say if that was a matter of writing or voices themselves.

Good Bad Girl by Alice Feeney
Narrators: Katherine Press and Stephanie Racine
Rating: 4 stars
Pub Date: 8/29

This was one of my most anticipated thrillers this summer, and it did not disappoint! In fact, this is the best Alice Feeney book I’ve read yet.

The story follows four women, Edith, Patience, Clio, and Frankie. Edith is an 80-year-old woman who wants to escape from her nursing home; Patience is 18 years old and works at the nursing home where Edith lives; Clio is Edith’s estranged daughter, and Frankie is a librarian at a prison. Add in a kidnapped baby from twenty years ago, a murder at the nursing home, and some shady behavior, and this was an addictive thriller that I could not stop listening to.

I love a good surprise, and this book had a few big twists that I was not expecting. It explores the complex connections between each woman and the events surrounding the kidnapped baby. The mystery is cleverly constructed, and we’re led down a path full of red herrings and shocking revelations as the story unfolds. The perfect pacing was a balance between unraveling the mysteries and building the suspense, which added to the tension and kept me guessing until the end.

Overall this was an enthralling psychological thriller full of complex characters, an intricate plot, and a moody atmosphere. I listened to this on audio, and both narrators did an excellent job bringing all the characters to life.

Fans of suspenseful mysteries will love this dark tale of lies, secrets, and the search for truth. Thank you to Macmillan Audio for my complimentary audiobook in exchange for an honest review. Good Bad Girl comes out on 8/29.

Pretty solid, but not as thrilling as the author's other books. I liked the themes of motherhood and relationships between women. I would recommend this to fans of Alice Feeney for sure.

A twisty and surprising read that makes you question everything!

Alice Feeney delivers yet another surprising read that keeps you guessing to the very end. There were a few points while listening to this book that my jaw dropped, and I was shocked at what I was hearing. Told from multiple viewpoints, I love that the reader doesn’t know who to trust through it all. And the ending was spot on! I enjoyed this engaging audio book, and the narrators’ performances kept me wanting to listen to more and more.

A big thank you to NetGalley, Macmillan Audio, and Alice Feeney for providing me with this gifted audio copy in exchange for my honest review.

Prepare to be captivated by a scintillating tale of domestic intrigue, delving deep into the intricate bonds and fractures between mothers and daughters. "Good Bad Girl" by Alice Feeney delivers a mesmerizing narrative that keeps you on your toes throughout. Just as you think you've unraveled its secrets, the story takes an unexpected turn, leaving you pleasantly surprised by its intricate twists and turns.

Feeney masterfully crafts the plot from four distinct viewpoints, weaving them together in a complex tapestry that gradually unveils the characters' sorrows and traumas. The culmination of these perspectives leads to a stunning and unforeseen conclusion, leaving you awestruck by Feeney's storytelling prowess.

Having embarked on this literary journey with "Good Bad Girl," I find myself eagerly anticipating more from this talented author. Alice Feeney's skill in creating an intricate and gripping narrative is commendable. Mark your calendars for August 29, when this enthralling masterpiece will be released. A heartfelt appreciation to Flatiron Books for providing an advance copy, allowing me to delve into this captivating world of complex emotions and suspenseful storytelling.

For anyone who starts this book and is put off by the POVs- KEEP GOING, I promise it works itself out and things start to clear up :-)

I will start by saying that I'm from the US, so I LOVED the narration and accents. They were calm and soothing and I would love to be lulled to sleep every night being read to by them- I'll admit that the night I should've finished this, I actually did fall asleep (BUT NOT FOR LACK OF INTEREST OR STORYLINE!!), They are JUST. THAT. GOOD!

POV switches were a bit difficult initially, but once each character divulged details about themselves and their motive, it was MUCH easier to keep track of who's who.

There were a lot of details and reveals I did not see coming and I thoroughly enjoyed following each character and unearthing their layers and how they all connected. I wouldn't call this an edge-of-your-seat thriller, I saw it definitely more towards general fiction/mystery with some sprinkles of family drama/relationships thrown in.


WARNINGS/potential spoilers for TWs:
This does contain themes and elements that some may find disturbing or triggering, such as infant/child loss, post-partum depression, elderly mistreatment and brief mentions of abortion.

I loved this audiobook! The narrator’s accents were great and really made me want to keep listening. While there was 4 POV, I had no issues keep track of who was speaking and what was going on.

The mystery kept me on my toes and had me hooked the entire time. At one of the twists, my jaw was left hanging wide open because I never saw it coming. I really love the family tension and the difference relationships throughout the book. While I have read almost all of Feeney’s books, I can say that her title is absolutely true, she is The Queen of Twists! As soon as you are able to get a copy of this book, do it!

Rating this 4.5 stars but rounding up to 5 stars on Goodreads.

***** Many thanks to Macmillan Audio, Alice Feeney, and NetGalley for the ALC as it was provided to me in turn for my honest opinion.