Mary Kubica
Hardcover | Pages: 352 pages Rating: 3.82 | 183280 Users | 14661 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Good Girl |
| Author | : | Mary Kubica |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 352 pages |
| Published | : | July 29th 2014 by Harlequin MIRA |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Thriller. Suspense. Mystery Thriller |
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I've been following her for the past few days. I know where she buys her groceries, where she works. I don't know the color of her eyes or what they look like when she's scared. But I will. One night, Mia Dennett enters a bar to meet her on-again, off-again boyfriend. But when he doesn't show, she unwisely leaves with an enigmatic stranger. At first Colin Thatcher seems like a safe one-night stand. But following Colin home will turn out to be the worst mistake of Mia's life. When Colin decides to hide Mia in a secluded cabin in rural Minnesota instead of delivering her to his employers, Mia's mother, Eve, and detective Gabe Hoffman will stop at nothing to find them. But no one could have predicted the emotional entanglements that eventually cause this family's world to shatter.Present Books In Favor Of The Good Girl
| Original Title: | The Good Girl |
| ISBN: | 0778316556 (ISBN13: 9780778316558) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Mia Dennett, Colin Thatcher, Eve Dennett, James Dennett, Gabe Hoffman, Grace Dennett, Ayanna Jackson, Dalmar |
| Setting: | Chicago, Illinois(United States) Minnesota(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Strand Critics Award Nominee for Best First Novel (2014), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Mystery & Thriller and for Debut Goodreads Author (2014) |
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Ratings: 3.82 From 183280 Users | 14661 ReviewsCriticism Epithetical Books The Good Girl
This is a debut?!!? WHAT? We need more authors like this out here.This book is not at all what it seems. I was expecting a book like Gone Girl and what I got was a relative of it. If you liked Gone Girl, you will like The Good Girl. It had me racing through the pages until the very end, WHICH BLEW...MY...MIND! It didn't really hit me what was going on until the last few pages. I had to reread a couple of pages to get it, but it was enjoyable, not annoying where I just didn't get it. I had anIt's not that Mia was a particularly good girl - she was pretty normal really; got drunk as a teenager, did all the normal things that most of us do. But she had a good heart, a kind heart. She's not particularly close to her family, but that's normal in the first flight of independence, and they don't understand her anyway. She is not a high achiever like her sister Grace. She is a disappointment to her father, a judge.Even when the school where she teaches phones to say Mia hasn't shown for
Wow, I just finished this and am completely bowled over about this being a debut novel. Talk about non-stop suspense. Told from three different perspective, during the kidnapping, after the kidnapping when they are trying to piece together what happened and from the detective while he is hunting for the kidnappers. So hard to pull of a book like this off and make it believable, but at least for me the author did an amazing job. Revelations, secrets, some major dysfunction going on. A book where
This book, like many others, is recommended for fans of Gone Girl, but I think if you gave it some different marketing and a younger protagonist, you could easily slot this in among the YA/NA romances. If this book hadn't been the only one I was carrying on a flight, I doubt I would have finished it. The sluggish pacing is more suited to quiet family dramas than thrillers, and yet the characters' lack of depth paired with trope after trope make it fail as a worthy contribution to that sub-genre
The cover and title typography says Im smart and edgy! See that reverse R? It probably means something related to why the blonde chick wants you to keep quiet. Dont you want to know why? And you know Im all over the smart and edgy with the hint of smart, edgy mindfuck.The blurb says An addictively suspenseful and tautly written thriller among other things and who cares if my computer is telling me addictively isnt a word? Fuck you, New Oxford American Dictionary! A rich, pretty girl gets
We'd built a fire from nothing but wood.So says Good Girl character Colin Thatcher, bragging about his survival skills. I feel that the book can be summed up similarly: she'd written a book using nothing but words. That's all there is to it, words and words and more words, but very little else to recommend it to people who enjoy reading words. If you disagree with me and think that words are all it takes to write a novel, go read a phone book and then get back to me.I honestly feel torn about
Ho Humm.... That's my initial feeling after finishing this! It certainly wasn't bad, I just felt like I kind of meandered through waiting for something exciting to happen! I was kept interested mainly because I knew something had to happen because it was only 350 pgs! The 'twist' kept it from being 2 stars.... But Iit was ''too little, too late' for me to award more stars!
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