Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney
on January 14, 2025
Genres: FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, Fiction / Thrillers / Domestic, Fiction / Thrillers / Psychological
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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“Wives think their husbands will change but they don’t. Husbands think their wives won’t change but they do.”
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.
I was very excited about this book because I am a huge fan of Rock Paper Scissors. Unfortunately, this book did not score high for me. The whole book felt like a build up for a surprise ending, which really lacked for me and was not a surprise while the main character was so god damn hard to follow along with, he made me want to claw my eyes out. He was so annoying. Was a very slow burn mystery for me, which I feel is hard to do since it doesn’t leave you on the edge of your seat the whole time. I’ve always loved her previous works and went into this hoping for the same magic, but try as I might, I just couldn’t connect with it. The story felt overly complicated, and some of the twists and turns didn’t even make sense, leaving me more confused than intrigued. It lacked the seamless brilliance I’ve come to expect from her books, and that was hard to ignore.
I rated this novel three stars. I felt it was overly complex and, at times, nonsensical. I kept waiting for that exciting twist, the one that leaves you completely stunned, but unfortunately, it never came. The story felt poorly executed and exaggerated in parts, which only added to my frustration as I read.
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