📚 Thriller Thursday 📚
Title: Beautiful Ugly
Author: Alice Feeney
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Genre: Thriller/Mystery
December @bookofthemonth
{Thank you @macmillan.audio for the audiobook! #gifted #partner It’s narrated by actor Richard Armitage and actress Tuppence Middleton. IMO, thrillers are best consumed via audio and this one was no different. A good narrator such as these only adds to the paranoia, eeriness, and unreliable narrator. I thought this audiobook was elevated even further with the sound effects—waves, church bells, musical interludes between the dual POV.}
✍️ Dark
✍️ Immersive
✍️ Slow Burn
✍️ Insomnia
✍️ Paranoia
✍️ Eerie
✍️ Unreliable Narrator
✍️ Missing Wife
✍️ Author
✍️ Parallel story within story
✍️ Remote Scottish Island
✍️ No Communication
Author Grady Green is simultaneously having the best and worst day of his life. He just received a phone call from his agent that his latest novel has made it the New York Times Bestseller list. Immediately he calls his wife, Abby, on her drive home from work to share the news, but only gets a few words in before he hears her slamming on her brakes and getting out of the car to help a pedestrian in the road. He knows her route so quickly goes in search for her but only finds her car and belongings abandoned…
A year later with still no signs of Abby or her body, Grady is so full of grief and can’t sleep, write, or do anything. His agent has a home on a tiny remote Scottish Island and suggests a change of scenery is just what Grady needs.Once he arrives to the Island he certain he keeps seeing his wife! And strange things keep happening!The story is told mostly from Grady’s POV in the present on the Island, but we get a few chapters of Abby in the past during therapy sessions.What really happened?
Hmmm, I enjoyed my time with the story; I was invested. However, the ending felt wild! Here’s the thing with thrillers for me… I don’t want to be able to guess them, per se, but I also don’t want the ending to feel like it came out of left field. I want some bread crumbs along the way. It’s not perfect, but I’m still confident giving it a green light. I enjoyed my time with this one!
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