This is the story of four women: Frankie, Edith, Clio, and Patience. Frankie is a librarian at a prison. Edith is an eighty-year-old woman living in a nursing home. Clio is Edith’s estranged daughter. Patience is an eighteen-year-old woman working at Edith's nursing home. Somehow these four women are all connected. That’s as much as I can say without revealing any plot twists.

Feeney definitely did not disappoint with this one. It is full of twists and turns that will keep you guessing throughout the book. I listened to the audiobook of this one and it was amazing. The two narrators did a great job distinguishing between the four points of view. It was obvious which character was talking in each chapter and not confusing. I highly recommend it to anyone that enjoys thrillers. I give it 4.5/5 stars.

Entertaining audiobook that kept my attention through all the twists and turns, and there were many. Several seemingly disjunct parts of the story ended up coming together. Interesting characters, caught up in the weirdness that sometimes makes up lives, gave a satisfying read.

There is so much to unpack in this audiobook by Alice Feeney. Good Bad Girl is my first Feeney and I was expecting a physically darker book due to the synapsis or my interpretation of it. Instead, Feeney gives us a disturbing psychological thriller that plays on a mother’s worst nightmare of her child being kidnapped.

There are multiple voices here which build the multi-layered mystery. Feeney delves into parental abuse, neglect, dementia, mental health, and homelessness. There are other issues that glance the pages and impact without the deep dive.

I don’t know if I like any of the characters (chuckle). I don’t think this story is about likable characters, but about the impact of decisions made at one time in one’s life that would not be made with forethought or life experience. Feeney takes us on a whirlwind of emotions for the characters as death follows them along with the detective trying to solve the cases.

Katherine Press and Stephanie Racine narrate Good Bad Girl. Their voices are similar and were at times difficult for me to tell apart which made orienting myself to the action taking place when I paused the book or left it for some time. Their pacing was good, and I only heard one mispronunciation.

All I can say is that you need to pay attention and you will guess it all beforehand. Good Bad Girl is a deep dive into parental loss and the consequences surrounding life choices that Feeney turns into a dark and thrilling mystery.

This book was ok. The dual POV’s and timelines got really confusing. At times the story felt slow and dragged on a bit. I enjoyed the last 25% of the book when everything starts piecing together. I listened to this as an audiobook and did enjoy the use of multiple narrators. I enjoyed the story but do not believe it will be one that sticks with me. I would recommend this book for anyone who enjoys a slow burn thriller.

Thank you to MacMillian Audio and NetGalley for my copy of the audiobook. This does not affect my opinion regarding this book.

Read Completed 7/31/23 | 3.5 stars

Alice Feeney always comes in with a good twist and GOOD BAD GIRL was no exception! It took me a while to figure out where things were headed and things just kept getting deeper and deeper towards the end.

This was a really solid book but just not my favorite Alice Feeney. I struggled to connect to the characters a bit and the book just flew by -- even after finishing, I'm still not sure if it was a good thing or a bad thing that I was halfway through without even realizing it. I was waiting for something more to start happening and for it to stop feeling like an intro, and yet, it was easy to breeze through and didn't drag.

There are a lot of people who eventually get POVs and when they just kept coming, I just didn't know how many people we were going to be keeping track of. I really don't think we needed so many and I think it prevented me from really getting involved in anyone's story as much as I had hoped. It felt more like I was just watching it all from afar instead of being involved in the story and pulled into these characters' lives.

This was very much about mother-daughter relationships in many ways and because of the way it was written, it got a little exhausting rehashing this concept over and over again in the book. I'm also a bit tired of the mother-baby concept in thrillers, despite it being an obvious choice for so many struggles.

I did enjoy the read but by the time I got to the end, we had already been winding around from here to there, jumping from person to person, and throwing in so many accusations that some of the twists were like, "Yeah, whatever." I almost forgot they were even happening. It was also a nice ending and I'm usually not a fan of the nice ending in thrillers. Makes it less sinister.

Wow, how I loved Good Bad Girl by Alice Feeney, it's a five star ⭐ read. My first was Daisy Darker, which was also amazing. This is a very wonderful mystery with drama & love intertwined. So many amazing words that are so memorable. Some that I'll remember are;
"Life without dreams is a slow kind of death."

"We all build our own prisons constructed from bricks of fears and invisible bars".

"Mother knows best, but sometimes it's best mother doesn't know."

As I heard this in the book,
"Before a rainbow 🌈
It must always rain🌧️,
my 3 year old grandson tells me that it rained, and that a rainbow would come out.
Wow, what a coincidence.

I liked the way Alice Feeney brought fun information about numbers, which I enjoyed learning. I had to go down a rabbit hole & look up numbers like 6 & 4 to see what it's considered in China. Very interesting 🤔.

I enjoyed the audiobook version. The narration by Katherine Press & Stephanie Racine is perfect. They both do a wonderful job with these well written characters Clio, Patience, Frankie, and Edith, they are perfect or are they. I highly recommend reading or listening to this awesome story. It will bring a tear to your eye and also a smile 😊 to your face. You will love the surprise ending.

(4 walls, 3 windows, 2 chairs, 1 women in the pink house).

(3 suspect, 2 murders, 1 victim)

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

Thank you NetGalley & Flatiron Books for the digital audio copy in exchange for my honest opinion & review.

Publication Day August 29, 2023
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I’m not sure how I felt about this one! Nothing was truly shocking to me and there’s a good chance it’s because I listened on audio. Thrillers on audio are hard especially where there’s more than two POVs…

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

Patience ran away from home when she turned 18. Now she works at a care home for minimal pay "off the books", where her best friend is a patient there, Edith.

Edith hates the care home, and cannot forgive her daughter, Cleo, for putting her in the home.

Cleo blames her mother for how her life has turned out, losing her daughter, and her husband.

Frankie works at the jail, but has decided that she must do something to find her daughter...

All of the stories are intertwined, and Feeney does a wonderful job of slowly unveiling the tapestry of their interconnected lives. At each reveal, there is another twist and turn to add to the complexity of the character's lives.

This was a great choice for an audiobook, the story was easy to follow, and the narration was clear and enjoyable to listen.

Narrator was excellent. Got a little lost between all the female characters but the twist tied that up nicely. AF does not disappoint.

Alice Feeney has been one of my favorite authors since the first time I picked up a book of hers. So I had a feeling it would be a good one and she definitely didn't let me down.
This was such good book! At first the multiple povs startled me, but I just love the narrators and they are great at being able to depict the characters voices so well.
I love when you think you know what's going on, but you have no idea! The plot, twists, characters, narrators and story were all great. Once you pick it up, it'll be hard to put it down.

3 out of 5 Stars

It was bad but it was one of the least thrilling thrillers, I've ever read and was a little too predictable.

Started out with a bang. Lost some momentum in the middle, nice twist at the end. Not Alice Feeney's best novel, by any means, but still a decent read.

Good Bad Girl
⭐️⭐️⭐️

🔍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.🔍

I flew through this audiobook. It's an interesting story that pulls you in trying to figure out what exactly happened. It's starts off with a baby being stolen from a stroller so off the bat, there is already mystery and a scary awful situation. The book is told in multiple character's POVs but only 2 narrators and multiple timelines so it was difficult to understand in some parts. Overall, it was an interesting read but just had more family drama than actual thrill.
Thank you so much Net Galley and MacMillion Audio for the ALC

An involving mystery that crumbles upon revisit, true to her moniker, Alice 'Queen of twists' Feeney delivered yet another wild ride with Good Bad Girl: compelling POVs, teasing chapter stops, and surprised me with a couple twists that weren't even on my radar. Unlike the previous novels I've read from her, this one requires some patience, as the first half of the book is consisted of primarily building up the foundation for the reveals to come; so if you are expecting a typical Alice Feeney experience, where the tension/red herring is in place since page one—you might be a little disoriented by the more laid-back pacing.

Even though I really liked the direction of its reveals, unfortunately upon rereading a couple early chapters, instead of finding planted clues, I found mostly plot holes and illogical character behaviors. I can tolerate a certain level of suspension of disbelief when it comes to thrillers, but even with a cursory glance I can tell Good Bad Girl will not hold up as a re-read. Still, as a whole, I was thoroughly engaged/interested as the experience was happening to me (especially the audiobook, which was expertly performed). Perhaps not as intricately crafted as her previous works, but it certainly scratched the itch.

This was an excellent audiobook. I read this physical book and listened to the audio and they both were excellent. The narrator did a great job.

Alice Feeney does it again! I absolutely loved Rock Paper Scissors so I knew I had to read this asap and of course, Alice Feeney did not disappoint! This book had me constantly guessing and questioning myself! Now don’t get me wrong, starting off, I was very confused about what was going on and who was who with all the characters and perspectives but that’s Alice Feeney’s thing! She knows how to keep you guessing and then wraps it altogether at the end!!!! And in the end, the plot twists are phenomenal and all the confusion and questioning is worth it! She does a great job at keeping her audience engaged and I cannot wait to see what she does next!!

I really enjoyed the audiobook of His & Hers by Alice Feeney (pretty sure I gave it four or five stars), but all of her other audiobooks I seem to not be a fan of. This was advertised as a thriller, but it was more of a family drama situation and I was not feeling anything about the story whatsoever. It did not hook me from the beginning. The two narrators for four points of view, with no changing up of their voices so you could TELL it was different POVs, really bothered me and I think that was why I also didn't care for anything in this story. I gave it two stars on Goodreads and Storygraph.

Thanks to Netgalley for allowing me to listen to this ALC.

Hello domestic drama!
Omg I loved this.
The story follows 4 women in different stages of their lives and I did not see where we were going or what twists were coming and I enjoyed it so much.
Read it in a day.
I had to know wtf was going on.
The narration was great and even with the multiple pov the narrator gave distinct voices and was easy to keep track of who was talking.

Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for an advanced listening copy.

4.5 stars

These are my own thoughts and opinions.

Loved this! Narration was phenomenal, never saw the ending coming. It kept me captivated the whole time and I had to find things to do to keep listening to it to finish.
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Blurb:
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.
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Posting on my feed on 8/10, saving my review to my ARC highlight as well.

Another fantastic book audiobook by Feeney. Told from multiple perspectives, this story is impossible to stop listening to. The story starts out with a heartbreaking abduction of a baby girl from a grocery store outing with her grandmother. While you learn about the family of the abducted girl and the circumstances they are in many years later you realize things are not as they seem. Sad and ultimately uplifting story of family and making peace with the past. Loved this audiobook and will recommend it to anyone.