4. Confessions
by Kanae Minato
by Kanae Minato
Promising Review: “I couldn’t stop listening to this audiobook, which had excellent narrators! I’m not going to give a lot away on this one because it is a hell of a ride and I don’t want to spoil any of it. It starts with a teacher addressing her seventh-grade class on her last day teaching. She has a story to tell, about her daughter’s death… From there, the novel rotates through a few characters telling their story in regards to that day in the classroom and the death of the teacher’s daughter. This novel stays away from cheap thrills, or tricking the audience for shock value sake, and instead takes a dark dive into exploring many things with grief and revenge at the core. You’re gonna want to strap yourself in for this ride.” – Matilda
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3. Still Missing by Chevy Stevens
by Chevy StevensPromising Review: “Still Missing by Chevy Stevens is a 384 page psychological masterpiece published by St. Martin’s Press in 2014 and is told from the MC’s POV as she tells the story to her shrink. Abducted from an open house, Annie is held hostage for a year by “The Freak” who terrorized her, beat her, put her on a pee schedule and denied her food and light for the biggest part of her captivity. Coming to terms with her new phobias and fears, while uncovering the mystery of why this was done to her, leads Annie down a startling emotional path all the while trying to reintegrate herself into her life “before.” Without revealing too much, all I can say is if Annie wasn’t on the verge of destruction during and immediately after her destruction, finding who was responsible for the mess that has become her life should have destroyed her. I will admit I didn’t care for Annie in the beginning, but as I continued to read, I became more and more engrossed in her story. Told in such a smart fashion, seeing her struggles through her eyes, hearing about it in her words drew me in so that I refused to put this book down until I read the last page. Another 5 star read!” – Missy Shirley
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2. Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil by Melina Marchetta
by Melina Marchetta
Promising Review: “It’s a whirlwind of mystery and intrigue. Melina’s characterization is amazing. A complex world, a complex story, complex issues where Melina writes with such beauty and ease…wait, not ease…FLOW…she has a wonderful flow to her writing. I thoroughly enjoyed the book. So Melina Marchetta is well known and well loved as a YA author…and just from what I get from her first Adult Contemporary novel she will get that status in this genre as well.” – Dalai Momma
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1. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
by Truman Capote
Promising Review: “One of the most significant non-fiction writings of the mid-1960s that still holds an honored place today in American letters. In late 1959 the entire Herbert Clutter family of rural Kansas — Mr. and Mrs. Clutter and their two youngest children Nancy and Kenyon — were slaughtered for no particular reason except that the two drifters who sought them out had received bad advice about the alleged riches Mr. Clutter kept in his office safe, but didn’t. What might have been merely a downcast saga of the “outs” tangling with the “ins” becomes an amazingly gripping story in author Truman Capote’s virtuoso writing, that took years to research, write and edit. In my opinion only purists quibble over whether this book should be classed as non-fiction or fiction; it IS non-fiction, but because some of Capote’s narrative techniques were new at the time, IN COLD BLOOD ever since then has straddled “best-of” lists to its overall detriment. Ignore that chatter and read this masterpiece for what it is.” – Allen Smalling
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