As you can see I picked up just about any book that someone said was like Gone Girl or Girl on the Train this summer…and I’ve been burned people, burned I say! But YOU may love it because it looks like my opinion is not the popular sentiment. Mia Dennett is a 25 year old art teacher and daughter of a judge. One evening, after her boyfriend stands her up she makes the decision to go home with a man named Colin whom she meets […]
Well, this one will be a movie soon, I bet
Mary Kubica’s The Good Girl has been endlessly compared to Gone Girl (primarily because the titles are similar, would be my bet), and while it offers similar suspense and mystery, it’s really a different book. It’s not quite as good, in my opinion — just not as tightly plotted — but still very enjoyable and compelling. And it has one hell of an ending — it blindsided me and made me want to reread the whole damn thing. “I didn’t set out to be a bad mother, […]