What a great twisty mystery this was! Told in the alternating voices of Edith, Clio, Frankie, and Patience, Good Bad Girl kept me guessing the whole time - who was the stealer and who was the stolen and how do these women all fit together? It did take a minute to get into as you get your feet under the story, but then it's a thrill ride to the end. I will be recommending this title and most definitely the audio version since the narrator was amazing. Thank you to Macmillan Audio and NetGalley for the early listen in exchange for my honest opinion. 4.5 big stars

3.5 stars

Thank you to Netgalley and McMillian Audio Production by Flatiron Books for this advance listening copy.

This was a quick and easy listen that I really enjoyed. In the beginning it was difficult to keep the characters straight and remember which was which. From there everything slid into place.

I'm not sure I would call this book a thriller and more about domestic family fiction. Unlike Feeney's other books there wasn't any edge of your seat suspense or fear for what will happen to a character. For me, it read more like fiction.

I enjoyed the story, it just turned out different than what I expected when starting the book.

It also seemed pretty obvious how people add up to one another based on the small amount of characters and timelines, but I'm not sure it was supposed to be a big reveal when it's all spelled out. Again, it read more like fiction so none of this even felt like was supposed to be a big reveal.

Enjoyable, but I'm not sure how fans of Alice Feeney will feel about this since it's a change of pace for her, which is also okay. The book just seems to be marketed like her other works.

I love Alice Feeney’s writing style and twists!

This book is not quite like her other books since this one deals more with the hard realities of motherhood and postpartum depression, along with trying to find out where you came from. I would say this is what the book is mostly about and then the murder mystery is second.

I did love figuring out the who dunnit and the other twists. They were not very difficult to figure out, but that didn’t deter me from wanting to continue to read the book.

Thanks NetGalley and publisher for the digital copy in exchange for my honest review!

4.5 ⭐️

“Children only know how to love until the world or their mothers teach them how to hate.”

Good Bad Girl is told from the perspectives of Frankie, Clio, and Patience. Each woman has their own secrets and is nervous to have them revealed. When Patience begins working at a care home, she befriends a resident, Edith. Soon, the group of women will find themselves linked by a recent murder and a child abduction 20 years earlier.

This was my first book by Alice Feeney and I very much enjoyed the story. The character development was well done and their motives were believable. I also appreciated the twist in the story. Every time I thought that I had solved the mystery, more details proved me wrong. I will definitely read from this author again.

Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan audio for an advanced copy of this title in exchange for my honest review.

I don’t think Alice Feeney is for me unfortunately. It always starts off great but somewhere in the middle the story gets boring and I just don’t care to continue. I wanted more from this story and it simply didn’t keep my attention like Rock Paper Scissors.

Good Bad Girl was a little confusing on audio because it was hard to keep the characters straight at first. There are 3 women - one a young adult, another middle-aged, and the third an elderly woman. The elderly woman, Edith, lives in a nursing home. The young adult, Patience, is one of her caretakers. However, Patience is using an alias and her background is pretty secretive. Edith's middle-aged daughter, Clio, is also part of the storyline. The story of a kidnapped baby is also woven into the plot. The story kept me entertained while listening, but it wasn't my favorite book by Alice Feeney.

Thanks to Macmillan Audio and NetGalley for a review copy of this audiobook.

I have enjoyed Alice Sweeney’s books but this wasn’t my favorite. There was too many point of views with multiple timelines. It was a mess! But, it was enough to keep reading. Thank you to Netgalley for the ARC audiobook.

I really didn't like this book. Alice Feeney books have been so hit or miss for me. This was so confusing at the beginning, multiple female characters and one was using a fake name. It was very hard to keep track of everyone. It felt like there was one great idea for a character connection and then everything was added around that idea to create a mysterious story. This was just not the one for me!

Thanks to NetGalley for an advanced copy of the book!

Wow! This book sure was a twisty ride! There are strong themes of complicated mother-daughter relationships throughout. Alice Feeney keeps you guessing all the way to the last pages. I really enjoyed the story although there are so many characters that I had to really pay attention to lest I get them confused. I liked how everything came back around and all ends were tied up.

Thank you to NetGalley and Alice Feeney for the opportunity to listen to an advanced copy of the audiobook! The narration was great and the quality was excellent. I always enjoy listening to books read by narrators with the same accent as the setting of the story. It really helps transform me into that time and place.

I’ve read a few of Alice Feeney’s books before and have found that I always THINK I know what is going on, however, in the end, I’m not right.

This book didn’t compare to her other ones in my opinion. I wasn’t invested in the characters or the stories. I was confused for half of it and it didn’t have the page turned draw in that Rock Paper Scissors had. I’m giving this book 3 stars as I did really enjoy the last half, but it was very meh before that.

Thank you NetGalley & Macmillan Audio for the opportunity to listen to this ARC!

Thank you, Macmillan Audio, for an advanced listener’s copy.

Does Alice Feeney ever miss? I picked this up looking for a light little mystery, just to be left on the brink of tears after binging it in one sitting.

Told from four separate POVs, Good Bad Girl is a wonderfully crafted whodunit following the mystery of two seemingly connected crimes –a baby is stolen out of a stroller in a grocery store, and 20 years later, someone is found murdered in a nursing home, with one patient nowhere to be found.

Add this to your fall tbr if you like thrillers and mysteries. This book kept me captivated from beginning to end, albeit it did take me a while to find my footing and figure out who was who, but once I did, I could not put it down.

The story is well-paced and twisty. I found myself constantly guessing and second-guessing throughout the entire book. And it had so many surprisingly endearing and heartbreaking moments with an overarching theme of mother-daughter relationships.

If you like ‘The Push’ by Ashley Audrain and Lucy Foley, I recommend checking this one out.

This was such a good, steady read. The characters are multidimensional, human and palpable. The struggle of womanhood, motherhood and imperfection. Patience, Cleo, Frankie and Edith's stories remind us that good people can do bad things and bad things often happen to good people.

The way Feeney weaved this tale is phenomenal. Each unraveling reveals yet another twist that adds a poignant complexity to the story. The conclusion really ties up loose ends and allows for a Renaissance of life after so much sorrow.

HIGHLY RECOMMEND!

Sigh. Obviously Feeneys style dosent vibe with me. I was so incredibly bored. there were way too many characters and names. If this wasnt an arc i would have DNFd before 40%. I probably wont try feeney again.

I look forward to Alice Feeney's books every year. After being blown away by 'Daisy Darker' last year, I've spent most of 2023 counting the months until I could read 'Good Bad Girl'. Though the book overall had a much different tone than what I've become accustomed to with this author, I still loved it.

A stolen baby, a runaway, a missing elderly woman, a murdered care home worker... there's an intricate series of events throughout the book that at a glance would seem unrelated but are very much connected. The POVs alternate between Edith, Patience, Clio, and Frankie with twists and turns following each of their steps.

At first, I was surprised by how differently the book read compared to 'Rock Paper Scissors' and 'Daisy Darker'. It didn't have the same urgency and sense of danger. I also found it much more predictable in the beginning, however, I was still caught by some twists by the end that made me react out loud as I was listening, causing me to scramble to backtrack to be sure I'd heard it correctly.

What I liked about this book was the relationships between the characters, particularly the complicated mother/daughter relationships. So much has been withheld between them causing strain and ambiguity. It took me a little while to differentiate Clio and Frankie, but I don't think that would have been as much of an issue had I been reading with my eyes rather than my ears. (Side note: The two narrators did a lovely job reading!)

Though not what I'd expected, I can't say I'm disappointed. Now the wait is on for the next Alice Feeney book!

A huge thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for providing me with a free audio ARC of the book!

I liked it; but I didn't love it!! I liked how all the characters were connected but at the same time it felt a bit forced. What are the chances that so many completely different characters will all be connected in real life? It was way too predictable and with so many different character perspectives it was easy to figure out what was going on. The only thing I didn't see coming was the twist in the end when we find out who the kidnapper actually is because it doesn't make sense. The math doesn't add up. She would have been too young or her mom too old. I didn't like that nor did I understand it.

It was still fun to follow the story and witness the progression but I do think it was lacking depth and originality!!

I really enjoyed the dynamic of a murder mystery weaved into an exploration of complicated mother daughter relationships. The combination didn’t leave any room for slow parts of the storyline; I was engaged the entire time. I did guess some of the twists, but that was because I was invested enough to think through all possible scenarios in my head, not because the twists were easily predictable. In terms of the audiobook specifically, I enjoyed that there were two narrators to give more variety to the 4 main characters. I also loved the transition of the accent when it is revealed that Edith is the person that lost the baby in the supermarket. Overall, a very good mystery that isn’t overly dark in theme.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ALC of "Good Bad Girl" by Alice Feeney. This is the first Feeney book I have listened to and I loved it! The layers of each characters and the twists and trying to figure out the ending had me hooked. I stayed up late and got up early to finish listening to it. I didn't see it coming, but my mind did travel down a similar path. Adictive listen and I highly recommend!

I was excited to get this ARC, because I loved Rock Paper Scissors. Unfortunately, this one didn’t earn my love.

At the start, I was intrigued, and really excited to see where it went. As it progressed, the time hops were jarring, and while the the dual narrators did a great job, their voices were far too similar to keep track of. The “twist” was predictable, even with the confusion. It was as though the goal was to make it so convoluted in the lead up that no one could make heads or tails, and if I wasn’t familiar with the genre, maybe I wouldn’t have been able to, but with as many titles as I read, it was easy to read the clues, but not at all with the payoff. It felt like a fever dream in the worst of all the ways.

I feel like I’m seeing this a lot lately in new releases, where they’re branded as “thrillers” but there’s no thrill, and all disjointed plot soup instead.

Really disappointed with this one. 1.5 stars, rounded up.

Absolutely amazing thriller. I was on the edge of my seat. I devoured this book in one day. I did not see the end coming. Loved this read.

Thank you to the publisher and netgalley for allowing me to read and review this title. All opinions are my own.

Thank you NetGalley for an advanced audio copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Alice Feeney does it yet again. I really enjoyed this story, and the narration was fantastic. I have a thing for British narrators as a New Jerseyan with no type of accent-we do NOT have an accent! Anyway, this story is told from multiple POVs, and it was a little confusing in the beginning, but I was quickly able to tell who is who and remember their stories. Three women who are seemingly strangers come together in unexpected ways. I really enjoyed Edith's character, I thought she was hilarious. The story revolves around a missing baby and a murder in a care home. The twists were twisting in this one, that's for sure.