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Goodnight Beautiful
Aimee Molloy
289 pages
Harper
What a wild and twisty ride! Was it entertaining? Yes! Was it convoluted and completely surprising? Also YES. If you’re looking for a book that’s fast paced and shocking, look no further.
Sam and Annie are the perfect newlyweds. So in love, they celebrate their anniversary every week. But not long after moving to upstate New York to be near Sam’s aging mother, Sam goes missing. There’s absolutely no sign of Sam, but the secrets he has painstakingly kept quickly surface.
My best advice: Go into this story blind. While the story ends a bit implausibly, the ride you take to get there is definitely worthwhile. That first twist had me gasping and rereading. What?! How?! And that was just the first of several well plotted twists. There were clues I could’ve picked up on. But those assumptions pulled me in, and I enjoyed each surprise along the way.
In order to best appreciate the ending, there is a need for suspension of belief. In today’s day and age, it’s not nearly as easy to garner medical supplies, much less narcotics. And as the story moves into the portion that pays homage to another hugely popular novel, it becomes a bit too familiar, bogging down the twists that were so well executed earlier.
Ultimately, I was able to put aside those details for the sake of the overall crazy journey, allowing me to enjoy this compulsively twisted read.
Thank you Aimee Molloy and Harper Books for a #gifted copy of this book to read and review.
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