A review by alisarae
A Good Idea by Cristina Moracho
Grungey rural noir set in a gloomy costal town in Maine. In the summer between high school and college, Fin heads back to her hometown to stay with her journalist dad and to try to crack the case of her best friend Betty’s presumed murder. No body, no witness, and yet Fin is dead set on unearthing new evidence using whatever means she can scheme up.
A few random thoughts:
1. The audiobook narrator was not helping this story. I honestly think I would have enjoyed it way more with a different voice. I mean, I think they wanted a cracky scratchy female voice because Fin is always either just waking up, smoking, yelling, or getting done getting it on with someone; also, she is queer and every hot queer woman sounds like Jillian Michaels right? But anyways, she did the “annoying self absorbed teen” thing really well. Too well.
2. How did these teens always have tons of pills and alcohol? And drive around all the time? Like even the DDs drank and stuff? Where was the money for all that coming from if this is supposed to be in a rural town that relies on summer tourism yet the book repeatedly mentions that there aren’t any tourists anymore?
3. I thought the discussion about mental health was going in a “it takes a village” direction, but the end didn’t have the final punch to hammer that home. I did like the end, though.
A few random thoughts:
1. The audiobook narrator was not helping this story. I honestly think I would have enjoyed it way more with a different voice. I mean, I think they wanted a cracky scratchy female voice because Fin is always either just waking up, smoking, yelling, or getting done getting it on with someone; also, she is queer and every hot queer woman sounds like Jillian Michaels right? But anyways, she did the “annoying self absorbed teen” thing really well. Too well.
2. How did these teens always have tons of pills and alcohol? And drive around all the time? Like even the DDs drank and stuff? Where was the money for all that coming from if this is supposed to be in a rural town that relies on summer tourism yet the book repeatedly mentions that there aren’t any tourists anymore?
3. I thought the discussion about mental health was going in a “it takes a village” direction, but the end didn’t have the final punch to hammer that home. I did like the end, though.