Beautiful Ugly

 

If I had not read previous work by Alice Feeney I would not have picked up Beautiful Ugly based on the cover. 

What a great idea for a suspense story. Women goes missing and her husband is so distraught he will do anything to find out what happened. Including ruining his own career, loosing his house, and all his savings. The suspense kept building until it all came to a head. I am still not sure what happened in the end. It was loosely finished with multiple options for the ending. I don't mind an open ending at times but none of the overall mystery felt completed in any way and even  with the open ending pretty much everything was left open. 

Considering Rock, Paper, Scissors is the only book I have liked by Alice Feeney I may stop pushing her books ahead on my to read list. 

I dislike writing reviews about books I did not enjoy but sadly I enjoy the story line until I was around 80% into the book. By having invested that much time I had to finish it. 

The Crash

 

I knew it was bound to happen but a Freida McFadden book I did not like. I even put myself on the wait list at the library before The Crash was released so I would not have to wait forever to read it. Writing reviews for books I did not enjoy is always such a challenge. 

Tegan was an okay character, I expected her to act like she did the entire time. Even though most of the story was told from her point of view I do not feel like she was the main character. No secrets for Tegan.

Polly was the character I wanted to know more about. It was frustrating to get small tidbits about Polly then have everything stop like hitting a brick wall and I never feel like her story was explained fully. Potential for a well written character the fell flat hard.

Hank was my favorite character but I am 100% biased since he reminded me of my deceased husband in every way. 

The other characters did not have much book time so they were just sort of there but I do not feel like I got to know any of them. 

The writing was fine I just did not like the overall story. I have never been pregnant but maybe it is normal for people to hear their unborn child's voice. Also I did not like how Tegan was hallucinating but it was never really dealt with. The overall big mystery was solved just smaller things I want to nitpick at. I expect more of Mrs. McFadden and her abilities.