Beautiful Ugly

This book was a slow burn and then an absolute forest fire at full blaze by the end. I was not expecting that final twist at the very end. Thoroughly enjoyed this one!

I love Alice Feeney's books. They're great psychological, domestic thrillers with a twisty twist at the end. You could say Alice is the queen of the twisty twist. She has outdone herself with this one.

On the day he discovers he is a New York Times bestselling author, Grady Green's wife, Abby, disappears. One year later, Abby is still missing, and Grady has been unable to write another book. His agent offers him the use of a cabin she owns on a remote island off the coast of Scotland. With his dog, Columbo, for company, Grady sets off for the island of Amberley.

Cue strange goings on that Grady attributes to his insomnia.

I'm not going to give away any more of the plot, except to say that all is not as it seems on the island.

Beautiful Ugly is compulsive reading. It's edge-of-your-seat stuff, and when that final twist comes it takes you by surprise. Nope, didn't see that one coming. 👀

Thanks to Pan Macmillan and Netgalley for the digital ARC.

After a lot of recommendations to read Alice Feeney my wife finally just told me I had to read this book, that it fit my style of book perfectly. Wow was she right. This was such a fun read with a constant questioning of the narrator’s reliability as their world is slowly revealed to the reader.

In the best way possible, I could not figure out what was actually happening in this book! However, the ending was very satisfying as everything neatly came together, and it all clicked perfectly like a giant Lego set! 4 Stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️!