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Mary Kubica

Författare till The Good Girl

16+ verk 7,924 medlemmar 533 recensioner 9 favoritmärkta

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Mary Kubica is a New York bestselling author. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and American Literature from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Her novels include; Don't You Cry, Pretty Baby and The Good Girl. (Bowker Author Biography)

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Verk av Mary Kubica

The Good Girl (2014) 2,542 exemplar
Local Woman Missing (2021) 1,173 exemplar
Pretty Baby (2015) 1,016 exemplar
The Other Mrs (2020) 813 exemplar
Every Last Lie (2017) 613 exemplar
When the Lights Go Out (2018) 424 exemplar
Just the Nicest Couple: A Novel (2023) 406 exemplar
She's Not Sorry (2024) 32 exemplar
Thrills & Chills: A Suspense Fiction Sampler (2016) — Bidragsgivare — 5 exemplar
Don't wait up 1 exemplar
She's Not Sorry 1 exemplar
Teine naine 1 exemplar
Zo een lief meisje 1 exemplar
La última mentira 1 exemplar

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Reader's Digest Select Editions 2017 v06 #354 (2017) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar

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Födelsedag
20th Century
Kön
female
Nationalitet
USA
Bostadsorter
Illinois, USA
Utbildning
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA

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Great thriller, with so many twist and turns I couldn't keep my assumptions straight. I enjoyed reading the story and I can pinpoint every point when I thought I knew exactly what was happening and who had done it. I am looking forward to reading more from this author. A solid 5 stars for me.
 
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mybookloveobsession | 50 andra recensioner | Mar 12, 2024 |
As a thriller, this misses the mark. I didn't feel the sense of dread or suspense that usually keeps me coming back to books like this one. The twists are too implausible for me, and the non-ending was unsatisfying at best.

The crux of the conflict requires someone revealing a dark secret at an exact time in an unbelievable way. The secret is interesting, but the way it is handled was not at all logical and didn't match the secret-teller's other actions.

The reader is supposed to feel afraid of the person attacking women, which is an important sub-plot. Perhaps that was supposed to enhance the atmosphere or something, but it just made the story seem disjointed and the addition twists at the end seem even less likely.

The relationship between mother and daughter is explained well. The writing is easy to read.

Thank you NetGalley and BookishFirst for the ARC. I will purchase for my library.
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Kaitlin_KL | Mar 11, 2024 |
Clara has recently returned home after giving birth to her second child, Felix. She has asked her husband, Nick, to pick up Chinese food for dinner after he picks up their daughter, Maisie. When Nick doesn’t arrive home in a reasonable timeframe, Clara starts to worry. Her life is totally upended when she learns that Nick has been in a car accident and has died…with Maisie in the car, who is unharmed.
Clara cannot believe that Nick’s accident was his fault, which is what the police have told her – that he was going too fast. Then, Maisie starts having nightmares about the “bad man” in the black car and Clara starts wondering if Nick was murdered. She decides to start investigating and discovers that Nick had a lot of secrets. Along with dealing with the loss of her husband, Clara also has other family issues; her mom who has Alzheimer’s and her dad – who cares for her mom with the help of an aide – is struggling to cope as well.
The narration alternates between Clara in the present tense and Nick relating the weeks leading up to his death including all the events he kept secret from Clara and this works well.
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Statistik

Verk
16
Även av
1
Medlemmar
7,924
Popularitet
#3,060
Betyg
½ 3.5
Recensioner
533
ISBN
246
Språk
11
Favoritmärkt
9

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