The Good Girl | 
So, my iPhone shows me random pictures of myself and it‘s been really fixated on this one. It was my first time out of quarantine after having Covid and I was sitting at a brewery outside reading this book and the waitress looked honestly so jealous and said βI want to justβ¦ go somewhere by myself and read a bookβ #soloyolo βyou can.β (I‘m not perturbed in the photo I just couldn‘t see the screen in the sun) lol
I really feel like I‘ve read this before but I‘m not sure so here goes to see if something sparks my memory. It looks good!
Happy reading! π
panI did a lot of eye rolling. I felt the same about Every Last Lie so I‘m thinking this author isn‘t for me π
pickI didn‘t expect much,Just wanted a quick thriller. Very solid. Didn‘t disappoint.
25 y.o. Mia is kidnapped. She survives, returns to her family suffering from acute stress disorder, thinks her name is Chloe. Told from 2 timelines &multiple perspectives, her mother & the lead detective seek the truth about how &why she was taken.
I forgot this is a Christmas story & I meant to save this for #Wintergames π
but, it‘s book 7 for #BigJuneReadathon
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Kubica is hooking me immediately with this one.
pickThis was definitely a good book and I wanted to keep reading. It did drag a bit in the middle though and I really wanted it to just get to the end. βοΈβοΈβοΈ
pickBeen re-reading all of Ruth Ware. Decided to re-read all of Mary Kubica as well.
pickCouldn‘t put it down (even when brushing my teeth and flat ironing my hair!) Told in 2 timelines: before, after the kidnapping. 4 POVs: Mia (kidnapped woman), Eve (her trophy wife mother), Colin ( the kidnapper) and Gabe, the police investigator. I enjoyed the non linear style and Mia‘s amnesia because we know she gets rescued, but we don‘t how . Moral - don‘t be a horrible, controlling father.
pickMia thinks she is having a one-night stand. Instead, she is kidnapped and taken to a cabin deep in the woods while her family, well her mother, desperately waits for her to be found. Her father doesn‘t really seem to care too much about anything but himself. Meanwhile, as Mia and her captor coexist in the cabin, things get a bit interesting. The story is told in multiple narratives and it is also told on differing timelines as well.
pickIIRC, this was a book that rode the tail of βThe Gone Girlβ rage a few years agoβ so the only expectation I had going in was that there might be an unreliable narrator. I was so busy trying to figure out who was lying, that I didn‘t see the end coming!
Told in βBeforeβ and βAfterβ sections relative to a kidnapping and from different POVs, I might categorize this a Suspense novel rather than a Thriller.
π§ Tom Taylorson and Andi Arndt nailed it.
pickA page-turner. I thought I had it all figured out, but of course, I didn't see the ending coming. I would definitely read another Kubica book.
pickThis story keeps you engaged throughout. From page 1 you are afraid of how the book might end. You will see.
so-soAs far as the story goes it was pretty interesting (though I didn‘t really care for the parts told from the detective‘s POV). Though a bit predictable at times and not exactly a thriller I did enjoy the story and how it unfolded. The big problem I had with the book is that the tone felt racist at times.
This one takes me along the lake, down a beautiful wooded trail and past my favourite house! It also gets me about an hour further into the tagged audio book! @Cuilin #litsybitsy. πππ
#Litsybitsy yep it snowed this morning. Another 4-ish km. That is how uncharacteristically in to this audio book I am. @Cuilin
Thanks for the great idea @Cuilin
My audio walks had been flagging... As much as I actually have THE best neighbours IRL... The Good Neighbour was not making me excited to get out and audio walk. (What is wrong with me? The life of a A truly principled champion of children‘s development ... read by levar burton? And I kept not caring even a little bit! )
Tagged book? I will be out again tomorrow for another 4K walk least!!! #litsybitsy
so-soI don't read a lot of thrillers and the reason being I find the endings often overstretch plausibility or fall flat. Whilst this did not fall flat, I was disappointed in the ending. The flashback and multiple perspectives work really well to grip the reader and keep them guessing. βββ and a 1/2.
#popsugarreadingchallenge2020: A book with the same title as a movie or tv show but is unrelated to it.
Excellent book. Refreshing writing . I am new to this author , plan on seeking out more of her titles.
Starting another book from my #tbr that I found free with prime on kindle π
#booked2020 #readinggoals #bookworm #readingresolutions
I really want to read some chilling tales for October, but before then, I think I'll give The Good Girl a try. It's been sitting here waiting on me for what seems like evaaaaaa.
I am trying to read through my stack, this one has been there for a while. Does anyone else find that the more you read the BIGGER your TBR pile gets?
so-soI enjoyed this book and was well written but I‘m not sure it was the page turner thriller that I was expecting. βοΈβοΈβοΈ
Visiting my roommate from college and hanging out on her houseboat #perfectreadingspot
pickMary Kubica's The Good Girl was *great* on audio--I listened on Audible, which featured a full cast reading--as it unraveled the story of Mia's kidnapping by Owen. The book alternates between past and present ("before" and "after") and a series of points of view through different narrators. There's a mystery in what happened when, in who is at fault, but there's a deeper mystery at the center of Mia's family: (continued in comments)
If you can, take a moment to check out my #bookstagram I follow those who follow me! π
pickWooooo! I was not expecting this to be so good! I wasnt sure where the story was headed but i defintely didnt think it would end the way it did! So good!
Listening to this one at work. This is the first audiobook ive listened to that has more than one person reading. Its kind of hard to get used to!
panI blew through this quickly and did like the way the author utilized time shifts and different POVs (tho the detective parts were meh), but overall I found this lackluster and trite. The βtwistβ was predictable if you‘ve read even a few thrillers or watched a few cop shows. And there was a lot that still made no sense even once we got that reveal. Also, a pet peeve of mine: much of the dialogue sounds nothing like how people actually talk. 2/5 βοΈ
You know how sometimes you read a line in a book and you just get the feeling it‘s the author speaking through their character? I could be wrong, and I hope I am, because this is some anti-choice bullshit, the definitive statement that of course she will feel nothing but guilt βfor the rest of her life.β What next, is she gonna insist that getting an abortion will also give her cancer? π π π
We get about twenty cans. Chicken noodle, tomato soup, mandarin oranges, cream corn. The kind of food you find in a survival kit. The girl realizes this and says, βMaybe you don‘t plan to kill me right away,β and I say no, not until we‘ve eaten the cream corn.
[Okay, that made me snicker.]
so-soI really have liked Mary kubica‘s novels as there are twists and turns along the way and this was no exception. The story line was good, the characters were likable, I just found it a little lackluster. A good story, easy reading.
Just realised I forgot to post a picture of this book when I started it.... π ooops.
50% through the good girl now. I do this all the time with books that when I first start reading them I feel like I‘m not digging it and probably won‘t get into it however over the last couple of days I‘ve found myself picking up the kindle every spare second that I have to read some more of this story. Really enjoying at the moment! ππ»
pickI read many reviews that mentioned the plot and storyline was predictable but I don‘t agree. Sure there were bits and pieces that I saw coming but that Epilogue π²ππ»ππ» well done Mary, well done, that one I did NOT see coming even a little bit. I can‘t wait to read more from this author!
pickI was not a huge fan of the way this book was organized. You find out the end result really early on, and then the rest of the book is filling in the details from the middle. Overall, it was a good book. A story about a young woman that is abducted, The Good Girl is told from three different perspectives, the kidnapper, the victim‘s mother, and the detective in charge of the case.
pickI read this a couple of years ago for a book club and just picked it up again. It‘s really good, a very quick read. It‘s told from different perspectives and keeps you guessing. An emotional case of Stockholm syndrome for sure! Book 8 of 2019
#audiobooking and #crafting
2 of my favorite things :)
1/2 way through this one and so far leaning towards a so-so rating.
