- What I’m listening to:
- Karin Slaughter‘s Pretty Girls
- When I started:
- Monday Afternoon
- How Much I’ve Listened:
- 6 of the 37 chapters
- What I’m liking:
- After the last book, which seemed to increasingly insult my intelligence as the plot progressed, I’m liking this book, more & more, as things unfold. Honestly, at this point, I’m not even sure what the grand tale is – some time ago, a girl went missing.
She had (has?) two sisters – one of whom is really rich but her husband was murdered right in front of her just after she was released from home-confinement – but the characters are unique and vibrant. The dialog is snarky. It’s been great (and creepy, though not quite on a Caroline Kepnes level of creep). - What I’m not liking:
- There are a LOT of “I just revealed this little bit of back story, and the story of that back story is going to be absolutely crucial to the story arc, but I’m going to switch gears now and focus on another character / plot point” moments. Yes, it makes for riveting listening . . . but I find myself sighing, fairly regularly, realizing that I’m going to have to wait even longer to figure out: why so and so was arrested, whether this woman will really do that thing.
- What’s Up Next?
- Something from this list:
- Richard Paul Evans’s The Walk
- C.T. Phipps’s The Rules of Supervillainy
- JD Barker’s The Fourth Monkey
- Ashley Posten’s Geekerella
- Mark Manson’s The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck
- Neil Degrasse Tyson’s Astrophysics for People in a Hurry