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Beautiful ugly by Alice Feeney was certainly not what I expected! The story started out with Grady a famous writer who’s excited that he made the New York Times best seller and he calls his wife to ask her to come home so they could share the good news. His wife Abby is a journalist she reports on crime and writes stories about people who have committed crimes and injustice. She started receiving weird phone calls and death threats so she begin recoding all of her incoming calls. That night on her way home to her husband she saw someone on the road, a woman wearing a red coat. Her husband was on the phone and she told him there’s a woman lying on the road, he told her not to get out bust she did because she wanted to help the woman. And that was the last time they saw, Abby went missing after that night. Grady was devastated he wasn’t sleeping, wasn’t eating and he struggled to write. Soon he lost his house and he found out that Abby took a lot of money out of their saving. He didn’t know if Abby was alive or dead. His editor advised him to go to a cabin for peace and quiet to write since he had nothing left. He was sleeping in hotels all he had was his dog. So he went to that cabin located on an island off the coast, that island was so strange. Although it had a lot of trees and the ocean was nice but there were no birds. Everyone was strange, he wasn’t sleeping but he found a first draft copy of a novel another writer who stayed in that cabin was writing. Because he struggled to write he copied some of that writer’s work and made it into his own. He did steal that person’s work essentially he sent it to his editor. He kept seeing his wife, hearing things, someone begin slipping old newspapers that his wife had written in. He thought he was paranoid because he wasn’t sleeping but then he saw Abby but she claim not to remember him but the next day he tried to leave the island but they told him he couldn’t leave. Abby appeared and she asked him why did tu try to kill me? At that point I was like what??? What do you mean?
Apparently that night when Abby saw the woman lying on the road, it wasn’t a woman it was Grady he then grabbed Abby and pushed her off a cliff but Abby didn’t die instead she went to that island and hid there. Grady’s editor is Abby’s godmother and she made a proposal to Grady to stay on that island and write but all the profit will made will go towards the island. The people on the island are all women! It sounded like a cult to me. Grady can’t leave he’s stuck on the island. He write books but he doesn’t get anything.
At the end they buried him alive ! Uhm okay ! I think need to touch grass now but it’s nighttime so I think I’ll go watch SpongeBob because that book was unsettling.
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