What Good Girls Do

By: Jonathan Butcher

Narrated by: Katrina Stone

She lives with no name. She has never left her room. All she has ever known is pain and abuse - until now. Today, she will breathe fresh air for the first time, feel sunshine against her skin, and even witness human kindness. But she has a point to make a bleak, violent point and when she meets her neighbour, Serenity, she finds the perfect pupil.

Forced to endure a lesson distilled from a nightmarish existence, Serenity must face unflinching evil, witness the unspeakable, and question her most deeply-held views, until at last she has no choice but to fight for her family's survival.

What Good Girls Do is a shocking extreme horror/thriller, and the first in the Elizabeth series. The sequel, What Good Men Do, is also available now.

©2017 Jonathan Butcher (P)2024 Jonathan Butcher

So Much Red Stuff

I went into this audiobook blind with absolutely no idea what I was getting myself into. I don’t want to just say this was an excellent book (although it was quite well written) because that doesn't quite sum it up. What I will say is that this book depressed the F#@k out of me. I have mostly stuck to the more humorous side of splatterpunk up to this point, or at least stuff that I could find humor in, and this was absolutely not that. However if you're looking for a story to fill you with intrigue, despair, and remind you of the darkest side of humanity, this is it. The child-like voice that the narrator puts on when telling the story from the girl's perspective felt like nails being driven into my ears in the beginning, but as the story progressed I realized there was really no other way to go about it. It was kind of a short listen, a bit over 4 hours, but I feel like that shorter format fit the story well.

Disturbing and suspenseful

Starting this title I had no idea where the story would go. The twists and turns kept me on the edge of my seat. I really appreciate the paradigm between the two points of view the story is told in. The language the girl uses to describe the world as she perceives it actually got to me a bit. Many moments where I really had to take a pause and go "wtf" out loud. And the ending truly left me speechless. Would definitely recommend if you can stomach the themes.

Intense and fast paced extreme story

Jonathan butcher knows how to wrap you up into a story and not let you go until you blaze through till the end. I finished this one and one day. What a ride!