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The Good Girl

By: Mary Kubica
Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton, Johnny Heller, Tom Taylorson, Andi Arndt
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"I've been following her for the past few days. I know where she buys her groceries, where she has her dry cleaning done, where she works. I don't know the color of her eyes or what they look like when she's scared. But I will."

Born to a prominent Chicago judge and his stifled socialite wife, Mia Dennett moves against the grain as a young inner-city art teacher. One night, Mia enters a bar to meet her on-again, off-again boyfriend. But when he doesn't show, she unwisely leaves with an enigmatic stranger. With his smooth moves and modest wit, Colin Thatcher seems at first like a safe one-night stand. But following Colin home will turn out to be the worst mistake of Mia's life.

Colin's job was to abduct Mia as part of a wild extortion plot and deliver her to his employers. But the plan takes an unexpected turn when Colin suddenly decides to hide Mia in a secluded cabin in rural Minnesota, evading the police and his deadly superiors. Mia's mother, Eve, and Detective Gabe Hoffman will stop at nothing to find them, but no one could have predicted the emotional entanglements that eventually cause this family's world to shatter.

An addictively suspenseful and tautly written thriller, The Good Girl is a compulsive debut that reveals how, even in the perfect family, nothing is as it seems.

©2014 Mary Kubica (P)2014 Blackstone Audiobooks

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Good girl Gone was a little hard in the beginning, but once you got use to the before and afters it was gripping..
really enjoyed this book and a great listen..

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Gripping and still thinking about this ending!

This is probably my favourite audiobook so far, it had me intrigued from the beginning and loving all the characters. The voices were easy to listen to and I liked how the book was set out to be 'before' and 'now'.
I was a mess by the end and couldn't stop crying (doesn't help when ur 33weeks pregnant) and the ending has me thinking about it still a few days after I finished the book!

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A great story very well put together

I was not fond of the story tellers putting on voices and accents they clearly didn't do well. I found eve and Colin particularly frustrating when eve would try to talk like the tote give and Colin like Mia. Other than that it was a good book.

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Great!

The twist, I felt so sure was coming, was pushed so far to the end that I’d assumed it wasn’t coming and had forgotten about it. Then, BAM! there is was.

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just complex enough

An unexpected ending with great characters and very visual scenes. easy to listen to narrators.

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Good twist at the end

Not a bad story with an interesting twist at the end when you think its all over.

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Recommended

A 25 year old woman that has been kidnapped and held in a remote cabin, returns home, but calls herself by another name now and recalls none of her time in captivity.
A good premise? I thought so. But the writing makes it even better.
Overall this is a really good, gripping read with gradual unravelling of the plot and twists. It is confident in delivery and uses past to present shifts and multiple narratives to great effect. The narratives are extremely distinctive so that there is no way of getting confused which timeline you are in. Bravo there.
The information from past and present is given in a steady flow and the reader has to piece the information together like a jig saw puzzle. You know she was kidnapped; you know she came out OK; but what happened in between?
Although it is being sold as a psychological thriller with lots of suspense and mystery it is also a romance, too. This is not a bad thing. I enjoyed that aspect of the story. It is accomplished work for this kind of genre that I don't read often.
The reveal at the end didn't surprise me, but the reading experience wasn't ruined.
There were a few niggles with the detective work, but I liked the detective as a character, so I will let it go because it was well crafted in so many other ways.
The style of writing made me fell almost like a voyeur at times.
Much much much better than Gone Girl to my mind (the book that most novels are compared to these days, and I have no idea why).
Recommended.
Sergiu Pobereznic (Amazon author)

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One of those 'can't put it down' stories

A great story and convincing narrators, except for the 'American' accent that the English female used. Otherwise, a story which encouraged you to stay and listen. I found excuses to do jobs that didn't require me to think, and take drives where I would normally have asked someone else to do it for me.

Not a gripping thriller, but cleverly written, with a few little surprises along the way.

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Good book

Great book. Interesting twists and turns. Enjoyed the different points of view throughout the novel.

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Great listen!

Easy listen. Bounces back and forth from past to present. A few twists and turns to keep things interesting. Well written. Definitely worth a listen!!

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