{"id":850,"date":"2026-05-07T15:25:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/?p=850"},"modified":"2026-05-07T15:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:25:19","slug":"beautiful-ugly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/?p=850","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Ugly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Alice Feeney<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Published 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ISBN 9781250337788 (ISBN10: 125033778X)<br>ASIN 125033778X<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>My review <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What a disturbing story though the butcher the bakery and the gift shop selling mainly candles was a nice touch and the irony was not lost on me.&nbsp;<br>The irony is not lost on me&nbsp;&nbsp;I really felt for Grady and took a dislike to his wife Abbey.&nbsp; Flashing between Abbey&#8217;s and Grady&#8217;s stories was interesting, Her view was so different from his, making me wonder if he really know her true feelings.&nbsp; Abbey finding someone in the road was confusing, and it was even less believable when I read who it was.&nbsp; The end is really really disturbing&nbsp;and a kin to a horror story.&nbsp; I liked Grady, he was focused and goal driven but so was Abbey, a couple whose only downnfall was lack of communication between them.&nbsp;&nbsp;I struggled with the final twist,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the book<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by the cliff edge the headlights are on, the driver door is open, her phone is still there. . . but his wife has disappeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A year later, Grady is still overcome with grief and desperate to know what happened to Abby. He can\u2019t sleep, and he can\u2019t write, so he travels to a tiny Scottish island to try to get his life back on track. Then he sees the impossible \u2014 a woman who looks exactly like his missing wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wives think their husbands will change but they don\u2019t.<br>Husbands think their wives won\u2019t change but they do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alice Feeney Published 2025 ISBN 9781250337788 (ISBN10: 125033778X)ASIN 125033778X My review What a disturbing story though the butcher the bakery and the gift shop selling mainly candles was a nice touch and the irony was not lost on me.&nbsp;The irony is not lost on me&nbsp;&nbsp;I really felt for Grady and took a dislike to his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,29,15,4,11,10,39,5],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alice-feeney","tag-audiobook","tag-authors","tag-book","tag-love","tag-murder","tag-scotland","tag-suspense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions\/852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}