The Good Girl

English language

Published March 25, 2014

ISBN:
9780778316558

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3 stars (1 review)

1 edition

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3 stars

I liked it.
It made me cry (even though I knew what was going to happen...
Such an emotional response should be an easy 5-star, but...
The writing...
...was passable.
Several 1st person POV's, fine. But, I got really sick of the POV person telling me what another character was thinking or feeling. I'm much more of a fan of being shown the other character's body language and being left to figure it out for myself.
I wondered all the way through why we were never in Mia/Chloe's head... found out why in the Epilogue, which I found a bit of a let down--up to the Epilogue it was a (reasonably) happy ending... the Epilogue kind of ped me off (because it gave us insight into a character that spoiled the image I had of them up to that point). I don't know if that was the intention. A …