3.75⭐️

Such a fun, drama-filled read with twists on twists. In the beginning, there were a few dragging moments. However, the urge to skip pages quickly disappeared around the 30% mark. Definitely makes one question the relationships between people. Every now and then, the POVs became difficult to manage. Started off with a bang and ended with a shocker.

Truly enjoyed the audiobook version and would recommend. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the gifted ARC (audiobook)…as all opinions are my own.

Good Bad Girl is told in a nonlinear timeline. The story starts 20 years in the past where there is a kidnapping. We then transport to present day 20 years later where there is a murder in an elder home. There are four main characters: Patience, Edith, Cilo, and Frankie, as well as one cross Perry Maison detective, working to string all the dots together.

I think the characters were well developed and the narration was great. The story had a very strong start and was quite the page turner. It did get a bit muffled towards the later middle. There were some plot lines that felt a bit cut. For instance, the scene with Edith speaking with the detective one minute then by the next chapter we find her somewhere else which leads the reader to wonder how she got from point A to point Z when there was nothing signaling that she would end up there. It felt like there was a big chunk missing between that time. I feel as a reader we need to feel and see a character reach that point. I really loved Edith's character, she's truly a pleasure! I also think there should have been a conversation between Frankie and Cilo. Again, we the reader should have definitely heard from Frankie's Pov instead of an after wrap in Patience's voice.

Overall, it is a nice and I would recommend it, and look forward to reading more by this author.

Alice Feeney did it again with Good Bad Girl. This book is a slow burn domestic suspense novel and one of my favorites of hers from this genre. I loved how there were so many loose threads (aka characters) at the beginning of the book and through of series of twisty surprises they were all wrapped up together in the end.

Also really like the theme behind the book that all bad girls are not just bad and that all good girls are not just good.

4/5 stars

Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the audioARC of this book.

Alice Feeney is hit (His & Hers) or miss (Daisy Darker) for me, and Good Bad Girl was a hit. I don't like to discuss plot very much in my thriller reviews, so here's the bare minimum: a baby is stolen from her stroller at the grocery store, and twenty years later, a woman is murdered in an upscale nursing home. How on earth are these two things connected, you ask? Well, you'll have to read to find out.

There are multiple POVs that may be a touch confusing at first, but you'll soon be able to figure out who is who and recall their stories, don't worry. I will say that a handful of the twists in this book surprised me, and a few were easier to suss out. I really enjoyed the whole thing though, and I think even the characters are likable, which is unusual for me in an Alice Feeney book. All of the women in this story have secrets, and it remains to be seen whether they're good bad girls or just bad good girls.

Thank you to Alice Feeney, Flatiron Books, Macmillan Audio, and NetGalley for my advance audio copy.

I love Alice Feeney’s stories - the twists and turns, and the fact that I am constantly left wondering WHY I didn’t figure out the twist when sometimes it makes so much sense.

Good Bad Girl is about figuring out what happened to a baby 20 years ago, who is the actual murdered, and can we truly trust any of these characters??

Narrated by Katherine Press and Stephanie Racine - both who did an absolutely beautiful job. However, they both sounded so similar that it was tough to also know whose POV it was.
I would have loved to have more narrators to help keep it straight but it was still very enjoyable. I think I liked this one almost as much as Daisy Darker (which is by far my favorite Alice Feeney book)

Huge thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the ALC in exchange for my honest review.

Another hit by Alice Feeney! It kept you wondering until the end as usual. Spent the whole book trying to figure out how the characters connected. The narrator for audiobook did a wonderful job. Alice has definitely become one of my favorite authors!

Name of Book: Good Bad Girl
Author: [author: Alice Feeney|15904689]
Narrators; Katherine Press and Stephanie Racine
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Pub Date: August 29, 2023
My Rating: 4.6 rounded up!
Pages: 320

The book promo starts out with ~
Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things.

Story is told from multiple POVs ~ Frankie, Patience, Edith, and Cleo in two time periods.

Characters:
-Frankie Fletcher a librarian in a Prison and appears is Patience Little’s mother
-Patience is a cleaner at a care home, where
-Edith Elliott is a resident,
-Cleo Kennedy is Edith’s daughter and just happens to be Frankie’s therapist.
Another connection is Patience lives in the attic apartment over the Kennedy Art Gallery which is run by Jude Kennedy who is: Edith’s son and Cleo’s brother. .

Story starts on Mother’s Day nearly twenty years ago when a 6 month baby goes missing.

Present Day: Eighteen year old Patience Little works at the Windsor Care Nursing Home. She chats with eighty-year old Edith whom Patience describes as having most of her marbles. Edith believes she has been tricked there by her daughter Cleo. Edith trusts young Patience and they develop a friendship.
Edith wants to escape Windsor and live in her own home,

Then Edith goes missing.
Joy the mean manager of the care home, fires Patience for stealing from the patients.
Hmmm now is found death in the elevator with a sign around her neck ~’Out of Order’.

Cleo, Frankie and Patience are all suspects


I wasn’t sure about this story when I started. I definitely had to take notes on who was who and what is what as the plot is very involved. – Next thing I knew I was totally into the story and couldn’t stop.
The narrators were both GREAT in their performances of the characters!

.Alice Feeney does not disappoint.

This is my fifth Alice Feeney Story!. My first novel "Sometimes I Lie|" was great and I was hooked . Read "Daisy Darker" as well as"His & Hers" both earned 5 stars from stingy star me!
I call myself a fan!

Want to thank NetGalley and Macmillan Audio and Flatiron Books for this Great early Audiobook.
Publishing Release Date scheduled for August 29, 2023.

This book is very different from anything else I've read from Alice Feeney and I am not upset about it. This is a very unique and clever domestic suspense/thriller novel and I simply could not put it down. I want to point out that the narrators did a fantastic job and made this book even more enjoyable for me.

I've seen a lot of people saying that they were somewhat confused since this involved multiple POVs, and I agree, but the confusion was pretty brief for me and I was able to fully get back into it like nothing.

In this book, you have the multiple POVs of
- an elderly woman who resents her daughter for putting her in a nursing home
- the daughter of the elderly woman
- a woman searching for her 18 year old
- the 18 year old runaway herself

They don't call Alice Feeney "The Queen of Twists" for no reason. This is by no means her darkest novel but it was still fun, thoughtful, and full of surprises per usual. This book also did a great job hitting on the topic of motherhood (good/bad mother) and the struggles of postpartum depression.

I don't know what it is about Alice Feeney but she always delivers with her storytelling. I loved the overall slow burn and the sense of not knowing if any of the characters were truly reliable or "good". I did feel like I was left with some questions but I genuinely loved this book overall.

Thank you so much Netgalley, the publisher, Macmillan audio, and the author for this ALC.
Pub date: 08/29/23

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Thanks, NetGalley, for an advanced copy of this audiobook in exchange for a review.

Alice Feeney is a hit or miss author for me. Daisy Darker was fantastic, so I was eager to get my hands (or ears, I suppose) on her latest title “Good Bad Girl.” While it wasn’t a miss, necessarily, it just didn’t enthrall me like the author’s previous work(s).

It’s hard to really put my finger on what stopped me from loving it. I found the story entertaining enough, but the twists weren’t of the shock and awe variety.

Overall, a solid 3 ⭐️, though not Alice’s best, in my opinion.

Good Bad Girl is a perfectly layered domestic thriller that will make you want to read more after each unexpected twist. Chapter by chapter, things start to come together, and relationships begin to become apparent. This book kept me on my toes the entire time as questions were answered about the murder in the present day and the missing baby twenty years earlier. Alice Feeney's writing was fantastic and much different than her other books. My minor complaint is that the book was initially very complex and confusing with the many characters introduced. It took me a while to understand that I did not need to figure out everything immediately. If you ignore trying to figure out how everyone is related, you will enjoy this book much better. This book is a great domestic thriller that touches on postpartum depression and what it means to be a “good” mother.

Also, the audiobook was excellent. Both Katherine Press and Stephanie Racine greatly enhanced my enjoyment of the book.

Thank you to both NetGallery and to Macmillan Audio for giving me a copy of the book.

I thought this one sounded right up my alley and seen tons of great reviews for it so I was excited to get to it early. I did enjoy this one although it did take me a bit to get into the story. I decided to go back and forth between the physical and audiobook (Narrated by Katherine Press and Stephanie Racine) that worked out really well. The narration was excellent. There were lots of pov's in this book which could get confusing at times, especially at the beginning, so it was nice to have the physical book so I could flip back and figure out who was who. 

At the beginning you read about the abduction of a baby from a stroller. The mother loves her daughter but is also going through a hard time with PPD. Then 20 yrs later you read about Edith who is in a nursing home. She was tricked into the home by her daughter. and is planning her escape with Patience, one of the aides at the home. Then another woman who works at the care home is found murdered. Edith's daughter Clio doesn't bother with Edith and you want to learn what happened in this relationship. Can these crimes and people be connected?! I don't want to go into more because I feel going in as blind as possible would be good with this one.

I had fun trying to figure out the pieces of the puzzle in this book, and I did enjoy how it ended. All of the characters are unreliable. You don't know who has an ulterior motive or who to trust. Well except for Edith. She's great! This was a good mystery. 

Out August 29.

Thank you to the publisher and netgalley for the gifted copy and audiobook. All opinions are my own. My review will be posted on Instagram, Bookbub, Goodreads, and Amazon once it publishes.

Alice Feeney is my favorite author but I go into these books unbiased because not every book is a winner from an author. For example His and Hers. I didn't like that one almost at all. But this one was really good. From beginning to end it was a stressful. Which is something I like in a thriller. A real page turner.

Thank you Flatiron Books @netgalley @macmillan.audio for a copy of this book. I was expecting a thriller but this book is more a family mystery drama. The book is about 2 mystery: a case of a missing baby that happened 20 years ago, and a missing 80 year old resident of a care home. The story is told in multiple POV and timeline so you do have to pay attention since there are a lot of characters. The pacing of the book was a little slow for me. I did enjoy seeing how all the characters tied together.

Thank you NetGalley and Macmillan audio for the advance audiobook of, Good Bad Girl, by Alice Feeney. The narration by Katherine Press and Stephanie Racine is spot on. Really enjoyed listening to this.

I have enjoyed other books by Alice Feeney and this one too does not disappoint. It has a complex storyline and may be a bit confusing at first, but as you keep listening/reading it starts connecting the dots one by one. A captivating mystery with all the drama and surprising twists that Alice Feeney does so well.

This is the story of 4 women, each good and bad in their own ways and struggling with the ways they are bad and how that has impacted others. There’s a murder mystery thrown in for good measure so the detectives can be involved.
I did not see some of the reveals coming and that’s pretty cool. Unfortunately, the first 20% of the book was a bit of a snooze fest to me. My love of this author and hope based on prior experience won out. The narrator was also fantastic so that helped.
One thing that was a bit of a barrier was the term “paper cut” as it clearly meant something different than I had ever heard before and took me a second to contextualize it each time, longer toward the beginning. The word is used a lot and important to the storyline so it’s noteworthy. I assume it’s a British thing lol.
Overall, probably my third favorite of the five I have read from this author.

Thanks to NetGalley for this audiobook ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Good Bad Girl had me hooked, I couldn’t stop listening! A little confusing, as per most suspense, but overall it came together.

In true Alice Feeney fashion, this novel keeps you guessing until the very end…every time you think you’ve got an idea of what’s happening, a new twist throws a wrench in that.
The story starts with a baby stolen from a stroller, and decades later a murder in a care home is being investigated…and yet somehow, both crimes and the many suspects are all connected. The lives of Edith - a woman in a care home, Clio - her daughter, Patience - a worker in the care home, and Frankie - Patience’s mom, are all intertwined, but just how closely remains a mystery until the end.
Great for fans of thriller/mystery/suspense novels! Narrators Katherine Press and Stephanie Racine are fabulous, between the different accents, and variations to each character, making it easy to follow whose perspective we are hearing.
Thank you to Flatiron Books for the ARC in exchange for my honest review. This comes out 8/29!

Alice Feeney is fast becoming a favorite and an auto-buy author! So many quotable passages with depth of character. Once I sorted out the cast I thoroughly enjoyed the interactions. Excellent settings as well.

Once again, Alice Feeney delivers a masterfully written story with her signature remarkable employ of literary devices. The chapters identify character point of view. The detailed, descriptions create clear visualizations of the story being recounted. Great twist that you won’t see coming. A must read!
I had the good fortune of receiving the audiobook version of Good Bad Girl. The narration by Katherine Press; Stephanie Racine is clear, easy to follow and very well performed.
Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the opportunity to enjoy the audiobook version of this ARC.

I love Alice Feeney so much but I have to say this one was a bit predictable around the half way point. I loved the story and how the characters intertwined with each other. The multiple POV was on point for the story telling and all the women were wildly different but Alice Feeney brought them all together in an interesting way. The story of the baby been stolen and coming back to present time was woven throughout the book. I did enjoy listening to this as an auto book and felt like the narrator did a wonderful job going between the characters