5 of 5 stars
I really enjoyed this book!!! It's been getting a lot of comparisons to "Gone Girl," and I can see why, but I liked "The Good Girl" more. I felt the storyline was more realistic, and the reader actually has a reason to care for the characters. And I must say... the ending... perfect. Can't wait to read more of Mary Kubica's writing in the future!
To expand on this "review," the book is about a girl in her early 20's named Mia who is kidnapped. The novel is told from multiple perspectives (including Mia's mom, the detective in charge of her case, and her kidnapper), and the chapters fluctuate through time from both before she is found and after she comes home (this is not a spoiler... you find out she comes home very early on!). Throughout the novel the true story of what happened to Mia unravels, and just wait until you find out the whole story! Seriously... so good. This book deserves all of the wonderful press and publicity it has been receiving.
Tonight, I was fortunate enough to meet Mary Kubica (and the wonderful readers who came to her event!) and hear her talk about her book as well as her writing process and future plans. She talked about how THE GOOD GIRL was written over the course of many years while her children were young. It then took a few years before she got a wonderful phone call that changed her life: someone wanted to publish her book!
Now that THE GOOD GIRL is out in the world for all to read, Mary has been working on finalizing her next novel which should be released sometime next fall (seriously cannot wait!). She told the audience that her new book is about a young, homeless mother who meets a woman one day who decides to take the homeless mother and her baby home. Both characters then realize the impact this decision will have on their lives. I can't wait to see where this storyline will go!
After a reading from her book, Mary was asked so many wonderful questions by the audience. Including: How do you write? (Whenever she has time, on a computer... and if she's stuck she puts it away for a while and comes back after some time away which seems to help); Did you write each character's chapters in order? (She wrote the book in different chunks... she wrote one character's section and then moved on to a different one. After each was done, she reorganized the stories into chapters and moved the time sequence around); What books have you enjoyed reading lately? (The Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline, Little Mercies by Heather Gudenkauf, Forever Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins Reid, and The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (one of her all time favorites)).
Mary will be back next spring in the Fox Valley area for the Fox Cities Book Festival, and I highly recommend seeing her if you get the chance! For more information on Mary and her upcoming events and books visit her website here.
I hope everyone had a wonderful beginning to your week!
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