Anyway, I've read a few books that are due to be released in a week or so. Reviewing books, and writing a blog gets you some perks like that. Sometime you get some garbage books too, but luckily that hasn't happened in a while.
Brave Girl, Quiet Girl is a book about a little girl that is taken in a carjacking. She is then found by a homeless teenage girl, and the ensuing story is about how the mother, the child, and the teen are all linked from that point. Or are they? It was a good read, and was on point with one of my pet peeves. If a story is going to address police matters, I want the research done correctly. This book had the facts pretty straight as far as police procedure would go.
I have read Ann Rule's true crime book's since I was in high school. Many of them were made into movies. Specifically ones about Ted Bundy and Diane Downs. Leslie Rule is her daughter, and grew up as her research assistant, and wrote a different genre. I was several chapters into A Tangled Web when I realized I had seen this exact story on 48 Hours less than a week before. I am not quite through with this book, because honestly it is a difficult read. I don't believe it has much to do with poor writing, but more to do with the fact that this story is very convoluted. It truly was a tangled web. I know how it ends, because I saw it on TV, but the book does have a lot of details that were left out, I imagine purely for time. Leslie Rule's writing style will no doubt be compared to her mother's, but I think she can hold her own.
I also listened to a few new Audible books, Me Before You by JoJo Moyes (very good), and When She Returned by Lucinda Berry (also very good).
Be well!
