e-ALC, 12:14:18
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
Release Date: February 3, 2026
Published by: Macmillan Audio
Read from: February 15-16, 2026
Stand-alone
Source: Google Play (I received this ALC free from the publisher and Google Play. This did nothing to influence my review!)
Content Warning: Miscarriage, Grief, Child Death, Animal Death, Car Accident, Infertility, Domestic Abuse, Toxic Friendship, Cursing
For Readers Interested In: Audio, Bombshell/Cliffhanger Endings, Contemporary, DEAR, Sparkly Cover, Realistic FictionA deft and immersive psychological suspense debut about a luxury party planner who becomes obsessed with a woman she encounters in a hospital waiting room.
Cady has worked hard to have a good life. She has a thriving luxury event-planning business, the man she’s loved since she was seventeen, and a social calendar she can barely keep up with. She also has Dana, her identical twin, her beyond best friend, her most trusted confidante. When Cady gets a call that Dana has been in a serious accident and arrives moments too late to say goodbye, her world falls apart.
But to Cady’s family’s growing concern and confusion, it’s not Dana’s death that consumes her. It’s Morgan, a grieving mother Cady encountered in the hospital waiting room, the day her sister died. It can’t be a coincidence, that they both experienced tragedy at the same moment, in the same place—Cady doesn’t believe in coincidences. Instead, she is convinced that she must help this stranger overcome her tragedy, in order to come to terms with her own.
Or…is there more to it? Is it possible that Cady wants something else from Morgan? Something she can’t even admit to herself?
Slyly twisted and deeply provocative, Good Intentions captures the moral ambiguity that can arise in the face of impossible choices. Like the aftermath of a car accident—and against your better judgment—you won’t be able to look away.
*MY THOUGHTS*
This was so much more than I bargained for lol I can’t tell you what I was expecting, but it wasn’t that lol This book reaffirmed that thrillers are my favorite genre because this was crazy.
The writing style in this? Genius. My heart was racing when there was no reason for it to be racing lol Basically my body was filled with adrenaline and I was scared something was going to jump out at me. I was on edge the whole time because everything was already weird. I had no idea where she was going with this the entire book and I LOVED that. I didn’t guess the ending AT ALL and I LOVED THAT. It doesn’t even feel like you’re reading a thriller. Just a book about someone who is seriously misguided.
The mystery or thriller part was kinda weird tho. She kept lying and gaslighting everyone and it felt like it was going in circles. At one point it even got a little repetitive there for a while. She just kept lying about stuff that didn’t make any sense lol And it was mostly like a big circle. I don’t want to say anything more because spoilers, but this was really weird lol
This book was so crazy. I learned to trust no one. Like at all. The author used every bit of everything in this book and I was hella impressed. I mean, the entire time I was reading this I understood why they picked that title. What I was not prepared for tho, was learning I had no idea what I was talking about. I hope y’all pick this up because it left me saying, “WTF!” That saying, don’t trust anyone or anything is REAL.
Overall, I give this
