book club thursday: reading challenge







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My name is Cyndi and welcome to Book Club Thursday (BCT). Each Thursday me and my two best friends Ann and Karen blog about book related themes/topics/subjects. You can learn more about BCT by clicking here or visiting the links at the bottom of the page. 

If you're a regular reader, you are going to see some fresh changes to each of our BCT blogs for 2017. We are very excited and hope you will participate in our events. 

This week we have: 


These weeks are when each of us read a book with a theme from one of our pre-set challenge lists. 

I picked from this list:


TRICKY

Read a book published before 2010
Read a book with a wedding
Read a book published in the month (not year) you were born
Working Girls  
Read a book set in your home state
Read a book that includes nature on the cover
Read a book with a cover that you really don’t like (ugly)
Read a book you once gave up on
Read a book with a clever title
Read a book that takes place in Winter
Read a book with a food item on the cover
Read a book that includes a Holiday
Read a book set in/around New Orleans
Read a book with a “Food” word in the title
Read a book with a seasonal word in the title

Previously read in orange
* Today's pick in red 








Serial meets Ruth Ware’s In A Dark, Dark Wood in this inventive and twisty psychological thriller about a mega-hit podcast that reopens a murder case—and threatens to unravel the carefully constructed life of the victim’s daughter.

The only thing more dangerous than a lie...is the truth.

Josie Buhrman has spent the last ten years trying to escape her family’s reputation and with good reason. After her father's murder thirteen years prior, her mother ran away to join a cult and her twin sister Lanie, once Josie’s closest friend and confidant, betrayed her in an unimaginable way. Now, Josie has finally put down roots in New York, settling into domestic life with her partner Caleb, and that’s where she intends to stay.

The only problem is that she has lied to Caleb about every detail of her past—starting with her last name.

When investigative reporter Poppy Parnell sets off a media firestorm with a mega-hit podcast that reopens the long-closed case of Josie’s father’s murder, Josie’s world begins to unravel. Meanwhile, the unexpected death of Josie’s long-absent mother forces her to return to her Midwestern hometown where she must confront the demons from her past—and the lies on which she has staked her future.



This book actually could fit more than one challenge and when I read it, I read it because I wanted to not because I had any particular challenge in mind but I'm going off topic here. 

The strength of this novel is the concept and format: mainly told in first person POV by Josie, the novel is peppered with podcasts(from Poppy) and the like, which break up the narrative in a compelling and edge of your seat way (hope that makes sense).

Poppy re-opens an old case concerning the death of Josie's father asking, in essence, is the right person in prison for his murder?

Although I suspected some "bombshell" moment(s) dropped here, there really wasn't any...per se...what I thought in part to be true was. There are some opened ended thoughts I have regarding this novel but to say anything more would ruin / give too much away. 

Ms Barber has written a edgy can't put it down thriller. All the puzzle pieces fit together and that is another strength of the novel. 

I love the ending and hope that means another old / cold case might be investigated by Poppy in a future book- I'm a huge fan and would read it in a heartbeat.






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