The Good Girl

The Good Girl
By: Mary Kubica

Underwhelmed.

I wouldn’t compare it to Gone Girl but I didn’t like that one either. The switching from ‘Before’ and ‘After’ POVs make you feel like there is some big event that you will find out about that will “change everything” and be the twist you’re reading for. But as soon as we find out Mia is part of the ‘after’ and we know she is rescued I spent the rest of the book confused, trying to figure out what could the twist possibly be to leave us where we are afterwards. There really was nothing surprising about it. I suppose there’s “the twist” exposed in the last few pages but it was too little too late. Most of the book was boring- hardly anything of substance happened.

I liked it slightly better than Gone Girl merely in that it wasn’t so ridiculously dysfunctional but it still had unnecessary language I didn’t care for, and characters I didn’t really care for. It’s not the dark mystery like Gone Girl that was advertised. It seemed like an attempted, but not compelling, love story with an intangible cloud of danger hanging over them that was never realized.

The author wasted this book and the payoff for the amount of time spent swinging back and forth between two boring timelines was not worth it.