{"id":2547,"date":"2025-04-13T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=2547"},"modified":"2025-04-13T05:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T05:05:00","slug":"beautiful-ugly-by-alice-feeney-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=2547","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beautiful Ugly<\/strong> by Alice Feeney<\/a>
on January 14, 2025
Genres:<\/strong> FICTION \/ Family Life \/ Marriage & Divorce<\/a>, Fiction \/ Thrillers \/ Domestic<\/a>, Fiction \/ Thrillers \/ Psychological<\/a>
Pages:<\/strong> 304
Format:<\/strong> Hardcover<\/a>
Buy on Amazon<\/a>
Goodreads<\/a> <\/p>\n

\u201cWives think their husbands will change but they don\u2019t. Husbands think their wives won\u2019t change but they do.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u2019t sleep, and he can\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n

I was very excited about this book because I am a huge fan of Rock Paper Scissors<\/em>. 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\u2019t leave you on the edge of your seat the whole time.\u00a0I\u2019ve always loved her previous works and went into this hoping for the same magic, but try as I might, I just couldn\u2019t connect with it. The story felt overly complicated, and some of the twists and turns didn\u2019t even make sense, leaving me more confused than intrigued. It lacked the seamless brilliance I\u2019ve come to expect from her books, and that was hard to ignore.<\/p>\n

I rated this novel three stars. \u00a0I 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.<\/p>\n

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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 Buy on Amazon Goodreads \u201cWives think their husbands will change but they don\u2019t. Husbands think their wives won\u2019t change but they do.\u201d Author […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}