Listen To The Lie by Amy Tintera | Audible | Lucy doesn’t know if she murdered her best friend. Everyone in her home town thinks she did. Ben is recording a podcast about the murder. Lucy and Ben ultimately meet and she agrees to an interview, the first she’s ever given. Lies are uncovered, supposed truths debunked … and I didn’t guess the ending correctly.
I’m not usually a fan of a murder-mystery/thriller, but this was superb! Told from dual points of view, the chapters featuring the podcast element are brilliantly done – they’re so good, I actually checked that I hadn’t inadvertently switched from Audible to a True Crime pod. Definitely on my list of favourite titles of 2024.
This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan | paperback | the loose follow-on to Before I Let Go | Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. She plans everything. She designs everything. She fixes everything. But none of her varied talents can save her when catastrophe strikes, and the life she built with the man who was supposed to be her forever, disappears in a cloud of betrayal and disillusion.
This was everything I hoped it would and by the time I had finished reading it, the pages were littered with mini post-it notes highlighting dialogue that had resonated with me. Another title on my Favourite Reads 2024 list.
Here’s a quick look at some of what I highlighted:
“On this journey I’ve learned to lean in to anything that makes this shit better” – Judah, father of autistic teenage twin boys.
“There’s so much pressure not to be alone that sometimes it makes you feel like as a single person you don’t have as much identity” – Soledad.
“Our family is on its own journey, and we’ll take it at our own pace, one day at a time. It’s how we’ve gotten this far” – Judah.
The Playing for Keeps series (3 books) by Becka Mack | Kindle | steamy open door romances centering around the single men of the Vancouver Vipers (ice) hockey team. (I’m discovering that there is a whole sub-genre of contemporary romance novels – sports romance, and in particular, ice hockey romance 🙂 )
Because of Easter, the next scheduled post will appear on Wednesday, 3 April 2024.
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i recently read two very good books. The Women by Kristin Hannah. Very good. Looking back to vets in Vietnam and the nurses too. The other was Daughters of Warsaw but I forget the author ( how rude of me!). Very good read. Happy Easter to you.
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I have The Women on my TBR list. 🙂 I haven’t heard of Daughters of Warsaw, but I’ll look it up.
Enjoy your long Easter weekend.
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Always appreciate your book referrals & reviews. Listen to The Lie was a book recommended to me by a fellow reader, so I’ve already got that one on the “hold” library list.
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I hope you enjoy Listen To The Lie – it really was superb on Audible. 🙂
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My TBR list has just grown a little longer!
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Haha, sorry about that (not really)! 🙂
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