Cannonball Read 18

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Putting the Sex in Texas

Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera

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Listen for the Lie, by Amy Tintera, is the other book that I took with me on vacation last week, as a backup to The Ferryman. Like The Ferryman, it is a mystery. Unlike The Ferryman, the ending wasn’t particularly interesting, exciting or unexpected. Instead, the final chapters of Listen for the Lie were just super horny. In fact, the whole book was surprisingly sexually charged for being about a non-sexual murder. It’s almost like someone told the author that sure, murder is okay, but […]

Crime podcasts, grandmas and small town Texas

Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera

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Bingo Square: Review I saw Malin’s review of this a few weeks ago and picked it up because I enjoy a good mystery novel. Lucy left her home town Texas five years ago and hasn’t been back since, settling in LA. Her best friend Savvy (Savannah) was murdered back then, and everyone suspected Lucy. Hell, even Lucy occasionally suspects Lucy but she doesn’t remember that night. She isn’t exactly living the most fulfilling life but she is surviving except now she’s about to have to […]

“It’s better to be interesting than likable”

Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera

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Buzzword Title Challenge 25: Truth and Lies CBR17 Bingo: Review (this was very favourably reviewed by Pooja, Narfna and Chairbrarian) Five years ago, Lucy’s best friend Savvy was murdered and Lucy was found wandering along the road, absolutely covered in Savvy’s blood. Unfortunately, Lucy also had a pretty severe head wound, which resulted in amnesia, and can’t remember anything about the night in question, before or after the murder took place. There wasn’t enough evidence to convict her, but most people in her home town […]

“I am not responsible for the fake version of me you created in your head.”

Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera

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I cannot stop recommending this audiobook to people! It is twisty and dark and funny and surprising. I’m not sure if it would work in original book form, because the neat device about this book is that it’s a book, but also a podcast. I know, wait what? But it works so well! Five years ago Lucy’s best friend Savvy was murdered. Lucy was found covered in her blood, with no memory of what happened of the event. Everyone in her small town was quick […]

“A podcaster has decided to ruin my life, so I’m buying a chicken.”

Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera

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Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. Listen, when it does the thing it does thing, so I had to round up to five stars because it’s so rare that I truly love a thriller. So many of them sound exactly the same, and have the exact same premise, and don’t really do much interesting beyond trying to shock the hell out of you (which I find uninteresting as the basis for a book). This […]

The Truth Doesn’t Matter

Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera

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Five years ago, Lucy was found wandering the streets, dazed and covered in the blood of her best friend. No one knows what happened, but everyone believes that it was Lucy who killed Savvy – until a podcaster comes to town to dig up the whole case again. I generally avoid the recent spate of mystery books that use podcasts as plot devices. For one, I’m not even a fan of investigative podcasts, and it’s always seemed more like a framing gimmick than anything else. […]



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