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A review by symrn
The Good Girl by Mary Kubica
2.0
This was marketed as something the fans of Gone Girl would eat up, and well I did try to eat it up but then I had to throw it back out because what in the name of fresh hell was this?
Can we stop comparing every deranged female lead crime/mystery/thriller to Gone Girl.
If this book had a teenage protagonist, was marketed more towards the YA genre lovers, it could have been bearable but this was such a drag on, so predictable, it felt like a slow roller coaster ride, waiting for the thrill to come, but it never does.
The author had some weird obsession with people's skin color, it feels uncomfortable to read it. She went to greater extents to explain how "black" or "dark" a person was, or how every bad guy in the book was a person of color, or how the male lead was white minority living in a disturbing neighborhood of, you guessed it, colored families.
You know who would eat this book up? Probably a 14 year old if you tell her it's a dark romance.
Can we stop comparing every deranged female lead crime/mystery/thriller to Gone Girl.
If this book had a teenage protagonist, was marketed more towards the YA genre lovers, it could have been bearable but this was such a drag on, so predictable, it felt like a slow roller coaster ride, waiting for the thrill to come, but it never does.
The author had some weird obsession with people's skin color, it feels uncomfortable to read it. She went to greater extents to explain how "black" or "dark" a person was, or how every bad guy in the book was a person of color, or how the male lead was white minority living in a disturbing neighborhood of, you guessed it, colored families.
You know who would eat this book up? Probably a 14 year old if you tell her it's a dark romance.