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I hadn’t read a good thriller in a while, so when I got approved me for GOODNIGHT, BEAUTIFUL, I was in! ⁣
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This book is completely bonkers, y’all. I admit that the two major twists near the beginning really got me, but after that I could see exactly where the plot was headed. I wouldn’t say it’s not worth a read, but...🤷‍♀️ ⁣
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Thank you to HarperCollins (whose eARCS always have the BEST formatting 🙌) for an advance copy in exchange for this review. ⁣
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Thank you to @harperbooks and @aimeemolloy718 for my gifted copy of Goodnight Beautiful!  Thriller lovers, get this book on your radar.

Goodreads synopsis: Newlyweds Sam Statler and Annie Potter are head over heels, and excited to say good-bye to New York and start a life together in Sam's sleepy hometown in upstate New York. Or, it turns out, a life where Annie spends most of her time alone while Sam, her therapist husband, works long hours in his downstairs office, tending to the egos of his (mostly female) clientele.  Little does Sam know that through a vent in his ceiling, every word of his sessions can be heard from the room upstairs. The pharmacist's wife, contemplating a divorce. The well-known painter whose boyfriend doesn’t satisfy her in bed. Who could resist listening? Everything is fine until the French girl in the green mini Cooper shows up, and Sam decides to go to work and not come home, throwing a wrench into Sam and Annie's happily ever after.

If you want a good, twisty, psychological thriller, GRAB THIS ONE!  I haven’t read anything that messed with my head like Goodnight Beautiful did in quite a while.  Molloy did a fabulous job of developing her characters in this book, and using their perspectives to craft her plot.  Her book definitely drives home the point that not everything (or everyone) is as they seem, and assumptions can be wrong.  I could not put this book down in the last one hundred pages because I had to know what happened! Those of you who want to read thrillers for the month of October (or all of fall) cannot skip this book.

I read a lot of thrillers and I went into this one expecting to be entertained as I liked The Perfect Mother and within the first few chapters I settled in to read what appeared to be a twist on the ever-growing Gone Girl subgenre.

I was wrong. I was so wrong and I've never been more delighted to be wrong! Goodnight Beautiful has twists I never expected (to say more would be spoilers) and did I say "Holy crap!" (or a variant of it) more than once? I sure did!

Goodnight Beautiful is truly surprising and wonderfully written. It manages to surprise more than once and look, in 2020, we all could use a surprise that feels, well, like a surprise and not a smackdown.

I can't recommend Goodnight Beautiful highly enough. This is a book I can't wait to talk up and about, this is a book I can't wait for others to read. This is a book that is definitely one of the best reads of 2020.

Very, very highly recommended.

Don’t expect a synopsis from me.  I’d be giving the story away. Suffice it to say that when her therapist husband disappears during a blizzard supposedly on his way for a meet up with a sexy French client, life is upset. Aimee Molloy follows _The Perfect Mother_ with another twisty page turner that is cleverly plotted. I was so surprised to find out “who did it”.

I. Am. Breathless!!! I’m trying to put into words exactly how much I love this book. I can’t. I’m sorry. So you’ll have to excuse how lame this review is in comparison to how PHENOMENAL this book is. I’ve never screamed (Out loud. In bed. Late at night. Sleeping husband wasn’t thrilled but I don’t even care.) in shock so many times as the bombs just kept dropping! BAM! BAM! BAM! I realized so many times that I was holding my breath as I was reading. It all ended with my bawling my eyes out and I can’t imagine any other ending. I loved every character. Then I didn’t. Then I did. The twists just kept coming and coming!!! And it’s REALLY difficult to shock me with as many thrillers as I read. This just might have the best ending of any book I’ve ever read. I’ve just ordered Aimee Molloy’s debut novel, The Perfect Mother, without even reading the description because if she wrote with a fraction of the talent in that one as she did in Goodnight, Beautiful, I’ll be giving that one ten stars. I wish I could give this book a zillion stars because that’s what it deserves. Goodnight, Beautiful has skyrocketed to the very top of my list of books to recommend. 

I cannot thank Harper Books enough for allowing me the incredible privilege of reading this book in advance!

Goodnight Beautiful is one of the best jaw dropping novels that I’ve read this year! My jaw dropped halfway through the book with a pretty good twist and then again a bit later on. I love a book that can surprise me! Sam and Annie are newlyweds who have just moved from the city to Sam’s hometown. Sam is working as a therapist. One night he fails to return home when expected. This leads Annie on a search for Sam. So many great twists and turns abound in this book. Read and enjoy!

Thank you to Harper, Harper Audio, and NetGalley for the early copies in exchange for an honest review.

I try not to be too negative about a book. I try to see the good in a novel even if it wasn't for me. But this just left me bored and disappointed.

The only thing getting me through this was the audio. There were three different narrators voicing the three different perspectives. I didn't have any issues with the audio. 

If it's not the similarities to a Stephen King novel, which the book is well aware of, it's the flat characters. It's the 320 pages of a novel that basically leads to the most unsatisfying ending. The whole book had "twists" and "turns" so why didn't the ending leave me speechless?
This could honestly be a one-star read, but there was some semblance of a psychological thriller in there—somewhere deep, deep inside.

I'm so confused as to how this was written by the same author as The Perfect Mother. I'm very clearly in the minority with this one. I don't recommend this one, but I'm not going to sit here and tell you what you should and shouldn't read. There are obviously people out there that absolutely love it.

Sam and Annie are newly married and fresh from the city to a sleepy small town where Sam starts to see patients as a psychologist. One night, Sam does not come home and the entire town searches for him. This was an excellent thriller, a mostly standard thriller but those are the ones I enjoy the most! It had some great twists throughout. I enjoyed this book much more than The Perfect Mother, Molloy's first novel.

Sam and Annie have moved to Sam's hometown, where Sam is a therapist working out of a home office. It turns out that from upstairs, you can hear all of Sam's sessions. Throughout Goodnight Beautiful, you think you know who people are, only to have all of your assumptions turned upside down. There was a moment near the beginning of the book that I thought about giving up on this one, because Sam and Annie were kind of boring me. Then I got to the first twist, realized everything I thought was happening was actually something very different, and it got more interesting. The book has some similarities with a famous Stephen King storyline, and the characters have an awareness of the similarities. Overall I thought this was a passable thriller but I didn't like it as much as Molloy's previous effort. Recommended for fans of unreliable narrators. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.

Lovely, dark, and a bit twisted. Dr. Statler and his new wife, Annie, have just moved to his old hometown, so he can be close to his mother, who is suffering from dementia. Little do they know how their new adventure will end but add a little Stephe King-esque excitement to the mix, and it becomes just Beautiful. Loved it!

A must-read, psychological thriller perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn. 

Annie and Sam are newlyweds, just moved from New York City to Sam's hometown of Chestnut Hill. Sam has just started up his own local practice as a therapist and Annie is teaching women's studies at the local college. Everything seems to be going great for the newlyweds. But then Sam disappears. As the town comes together to look for him, Annie is left with Sam's past and his secrets. Did something happen to Sam? Or did he run away from his new wife and his problems, returning to the old playboy ways that everyone in Chestnut Hill remembers him for? 

Fans of psychological thrillers will find Goodnight Beautiful hard to put down. Told from three different perspectives, the reader is led down a captivating rabbit hole, falling further into the mindsets of all three of the main characters until the truth about what happened to Sam is revealed. The plot is exciting and will keep readers guessing; chapters often leave the reader on the edge of their seat, needing to know what happens next. Each perspective is well written, with each character's personality shining through.  Goodnight Beautiful is a fantastic psychological thriller sure to be keeping readers guessing from atop the bestseller list. 

A huge thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for the chance to read Goodnight Beautiful in advance of its release date.

Fast-paced, addictive and exquisitely chilling thriller. It started with a bang of a twist and didn’t let go. I couldn’t put it down until I’d finally turned the last page. Masterfully plotted, populated  with rich intriguing characters. Aimee Molloy is a master of misdirection and perfectly timed revelations. Loved all the psychology woven into the story.

Aimee Molloy has gone above and beyond in this outstanding psychological thriller. The twists abound and just when I thought one thing, the book went in a completely different direction. I’m always pleased when a book surprises me with an unexpected twist and this book actually had several. This is an absolute page turner that will keep readers guessing right up to the last page.

A great follow up to her book The Perfect Mother, Aimee Malloy has delivered another page turner.  Twists and turns to spare, it is hard to sum up without giving anything away.  I stayed up way too late to finish it!

Wow!!  Reading along thinking I've followed the plot when - it totally flips!  Didn't know who was who - who was the crazy or if they all were.

Great Book - could not stop reading - had to find out what the heck was happening!

Well written - great thriller - one of the best I've read this year!

Goodnight Beautiful
“A handsome psychotherapist. His lonely wife. And in his home office ceiling, a vent …You’d listen too, wouldn’t you? (You know you would.)”

What in the heck?! This book was insane!!!! I honestly don’t even know where to start with this review haha but I do know that I’m super creeped out!!

This book definitely had a major plot twist that I was not expecting.....at all. I think for a good portion of the book I didn’t realize that Annie and the landlord were two different people.  This book follows Sam, a therapist, and his wife Annie, newlyweds with a very interesting relationship. They moved to a new place and Sam was offered a very generous private office space for his clients. Sam doesn’t realize that I’m this old house, in the room above his office is a vent where everything from in his office can be heard. Then, Sam goes missing and all evidence points to Sam taking off after many lies in his marriage are revealed. Once Sam goes missing, the story completely changes into a serious psychological thriller and I couldn’t put this book down. 

It’s very hard to review this book because it’s hard to not give away any spoilers so I had to keep it as vague as possible. If you like creepy, unexpected thrillers, then this is the book for you!  Pre order it now and add it to your TBR pile. This book will be released October 13, 2020!

Thank you again Harper Collins, NetGalley and Aimee for this opportunity to read and review this amazing book. I can’t wait to grab a physical copy in October!

Good paced mystery kept me guessing through the last few chapters. Ending fell a little flat to me. Would recommend.

This is 100% the best thriller I've read this year... maybe one of my top thrillers EVER. The author really took it to the next level. I couldn't believe the assumptions I made as a reader - the book has really made me question my preconceived ideas on women in thrillers. This book was a total mind f*ck. Will recommend to everyone.

This book is almost an homage to past thrillers as much as it is a twisty tale. The book references the trend of having unreliable narrators and classics like Stephen King's Misery within the first few chapters. And while the book is its own story, it definitely uses plot points and devices from past thrillers, winking at us readers and daring to catch all of the references.

The book begins with alternating narrators telling about the weeks leading up to the disappearance of Dr. Sam Statler. You learn about Sam and Annie's whirlwind courtship, their role-playing game, their move to upstate New York to Sam's hometown, and about Sam's clients at his psychotherapy office. But when you reach the end of Part 1, everything you think you know is thrown out the window.

I actually went back and reread parts of Part 1 before going on, to reorient myself! 

Sharing much more of the plot will destroy the twists of the book, and it is too enjoyable to do that!

Many recent thrillers are full of evil intent and unlikable characters, but Goodnight Beautiful is not. Even the "villain" is likeable in their own way and you might even find yourself feeling sorry for them. The ending is satisfying and positive, a welcome change from many thrillers I've read in the past couple of years.

I received an ARC of this novel from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. 

Sam is a handsome psychologist and is married to Annie, a literature professor.  They relocate from the city to his hometown to care for his ailing mother.   Sam goes missing leaving unexplained debt and mysterious messages from a young French student.  Twists galore in this mystery.