19 Apr 2025

Book Review / Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney


 

The million-copy bestselling Queen of Twists Alice Feeney returns with a gripping and deliciously dark thriller about marriage. . .
. . . and revenge.


Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life.

Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by the cliff edge the headlights are on, the driver door is open, her phone is still there. . . but his wife has disappeared.

A year later, Grady is still overcome with grief and desperate to know what happened to Abby. He can’t sleep, and he can’t write, so he travels to a tiny Scottish island to try to get his life back on track. Then he sees the impossible — a woman who looks exactly like his missing wife.

Wives think their husbands will change but they don’t.
Husbands think their wives won’t change but they do.


Published:  14th January 2025

Publisher:   MacMillan / FlatIron

Goodreads : Click Here

Series or Stand-Alone:  Stand-Alone

Source:  Bought



MY REVIEW


What I loved about this story...  Oh this book was good, really good!  I'm a massive thriller reader and I've read a lot over my reading life, so a book has to be at a top tier level to be able to surprise me.  I've not read anything from this author yet so I decided to go into this blind and read this via audiobook (Audible).  Right from the beginning, I was intrigued.  I needed to know what happened to Abby but then Grady travels away from home to process his grief over his missing wife to concentrate on his writing but all is not as it seems.  There were quite a few occassions in this book where I thought the story was going in one direction, but ended up in completely the other direction.  Adored everything about this book, including the ending.  

Would I recommend?  Absolutely, but I would recommend going into this blind (unless you've already read this review - sorry... maybe give it a while so you forget about it first...) with no expectations.  






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