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This Chick’s Audio Review: So My Ex-Boyfriend is a Serial Killer by

How would you handle having dated someone who turned out to be a serial killer? Well, I’d thank my lucky stars that I lived to tell the story, definitely. What I wouldn’t expect is for the entire town I’m living in to think I was in on the murder. Thank goodness for Sidney’s true-crime loving girlfriends,who are the rocks who are helping her retain her sanity, but are also strategizing where Sidney’s ex may have buried his other victims. When hot guy Noah moves in next door Sidney can’t help but fantasize about what a real boyfriend might be like. When he actually wants to be friends? Unexpected!

This audiobook was free with my audible subscription and anything Kylie Scott writes is a no brainer for me, but even I was slightly hesitant at the name of the novel, and when I read the synopsis? I couldn’t even figure out how Kylie Scott was going to create a romance out of this back story. Luckily, the snarky dialogue that is Kylie Scott’s signature, and a very likable heroine made this easy to listen to and at only 6 hours it went rather quickly. Thank you also to the very talented Andy Arndt. I love her narrations- she always does an outstanding job.

So, as I stated above, the snappy dialogue and heroine checked my boxes and truthfully so did Noah, up to a point. What really threw me off is that this book was a little bit more amateur sleuth mystery than it was a romance. Yes, she and Noah develop a relationship, but it’s rather slow burn and let’s face it, Sidney has some serious trust issues. When someone gets murdered, and then her ex starts to write and call? I start to wonder what genre of book I’m listening to!

I had a conversation with a friend the other day about when a writer has quite a few books written in a genre and her identity gets set with her readers how it may be difficult to write something different. I think Kylie Scott is trying out new style’s to keep things interesting for herself as a creative person. Her last novel, Wildflowers, was a departure from the norm but this book? It definitely felt like she wasn’t sure what kind of book she was writing. Is it a mystery? Is it a romance? Is it a romantic suspense? This book definitely had all three elements, but because it messed with my emotions in unexpected ways I kind of didn’t enjoy it. Ugh, I hate saying that because I really do love most everything this author writes. This one just wasn’t for me.

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This Chicks Audio Review: The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill

The ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is quiet—until the tranquility is shattered by a woman’s terrified scream. Security guards take charge immediately, instructing everyone inside to stay put until the threat is identified and contained. While they wait for the all-clear, four strangers, who’d happened to sit at the same table, pass the time in conversation, and friendships are struck. Each has his or her own reasons for being in the reading room that morning—it just happens that one is a murderer.

Best-selling Australian crime author, Hannah Tigone, is crafting a novel set in the Boston Public Library. As she write this story, about these four people who were brought together by that scream, the reader also reads chapters from another source. Hannah is sharing each chapter with one of her readers, a man named Leo. As he reads each chapter he makes corrections and give critiques, but as the chapter go on, we realize that Leo knows a lot about murder and he may be slightly unhinged.

Narrated by Katherine Littrell, who does an absolutely amazing job. This story within a story is deftly written and absolutely riveting and her narration adds to the secret sauce that makes this story so good. In fact, this could have been a really confusing book to listen to, but Katherine Littrell’s inflections and accents made the characters easily identifiable and I was able to follow the story and enjoy the journey. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Video: Nashville Ballet’s Virtual Book Club- Peter Pan Chapter 3 narrated by Amy Watson (WTVF Ch.5 anchor)

Hi all! Nashville Ballet’s virtual book club is on chapter 3 of Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie. I don’t know if any of you listened to Ann Patchett read chapter 2, she was great! It’s been awhile since I’ve read this classic and I forgot that Mr. Darling was a not so great father. She did a great job at imbuing a certain ugliness to his voice.

Today, Amy Watson, the morning anchor for WTVF’s Newschannel 5 is reading Chapter 3. She did a very nice news story about our project!

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Here’s the link to Amy Watson reading Chapter 3 of Peter Pan.

Enjoy!

I hope you enjoy chapter 3 of Peter Pan!

Deb

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