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Beautiful Ugly
By: Alice Feeney
Publication Date: January 14, 2025
Published By: Flatiron Books
320 pages
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“We live in a world filled with hate and hurt, these are dark time, but there is still love and light if you look for it.”
Grady Green is an author, and he’s about to receive some exciting news. He wants his wife, Abby, with him, but of course she’s not home yet. He gives her a call, and while she’s on the phone with him, she stops to help someone, and then he hears nothing. He goes to find her, and she’s gone. Now it’s a year later and he can’t write and sleep. So he goes to a secluded cabin to help get his life and career back on track. Then he thinks he sees his wife. Is he seeing things though, or is it really her? There are some strange occurrences happening on this island where the cabin is, including that there is no phone and there is seemingly no way off.
I went into this book blind. I kept seeing it all over the place and decided I wanted to read it. I’m SO glad that I did! I’ve read a few of Feeney’s other novels, but this one is by far my favorite. Feeney builds this island atmosphere that makes the reader feel safe and comfortable, right along side of Grady. I felt like I was hanging out with him while he was going on with his day to day life, trying to get his novel written. Then, all of a sudden, Feeney bombards me with these twists and turns that I didn’t see coming! There were a few of them… and I couldn’t believe that I was tricked SO hard!!! But I also really enjoyed that I was tricked so hard.
This novel is written in two different points of view, that of Grady and Abby, and they are told in different time periods. The present and the past. This is done so well. I don’t always love this, but the way that it was handled here is that the past is the not to distant past, and it was very interesting.
The pacing of the book was a bit slower than I usually like, but it didn’t feel so slow that I hated it. It was written so well that I was able to enjoy the slower pacing. Having Grady’s inner dialogue really helped as well.
This was a great mystery/thriller, with mind blowing twists. So check it out!
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