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BOTM-MARCH 2022...AS THE WICKED WATCH..by Tamron Hall
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Feb 22, 2022 08:44AM
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When crime reporter Jordan Manning leaves her hometown in Texas to take a job at a television station in Chicago, she’s one step closer to her dream: a coveted anchor chair on a national network.
Jordan is smart and aggressive, with unabashed star-power, and often the only woman of color in the newsroom. Her signature? Arriving first on the scene—in impractical designer stilettos. Armed with a master’s degree in forensic science and impeccable instincts, Jordan has been able to balance her dueling motivations: breaking every big story—and giving a voice to the voiceless.
From her time in Texas, she’s covered the vilest of human behaviors but nothing has prepared her for Chicago. Jordan is that rare breed of a journalist who can navigate a crime scene as well as she can a newsroom—often noticing what others tend to miss. Again and again, she is called to cover the murders of Black women, many of them sexually assaulted, most brutalized, and all of them quickly forgotten.
All until Masey James—the story that Jordan just can’t shake, despite all efforts. A 15-year-old girl whose body was found in an abandoned lot, Masey has come to represent for Jordan all of the frustration and anger that her job often forces her to repress. Putting the rest of her work and her fraying personal life aside, Jordan does everything she can to give the story the coverage it desperately requires, and that a missing Black child would so rarely get.
There’s a serial killer on the loose, Jordan believes, and he’s hiding in plain sight.
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I will see who starts the talk, because its not all about the MOD all-the-time......
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I just started this one a couple of days ago. I'm about 40% in, and so far, it's "meh". I'll stick w/ it, though.
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I've passed the halfway mark and it's getting better.
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Just finished it. It definitely got better. On a side note, when did the terms black and white start beginning w/ capital letters? Throughout the book, it was Black and White.
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Just finished it. The first half was so slow and the writing did not flow. Hopefully she'll get better. Jordan was so self centered and did nothing to make me like the character. I felt like she was only working so hard to find the killer for her own benefit. Also, the author spent so much time introducing the friends for it to add nothing to the story.
stephanie wrote: "Cathy, are you talking about the Black and White term in society, or in the book only?"I'm guessing her capitalization of the words is a reflection on today's society, so both.
I am having difficulty with this book ITS BORING. I think if Hall did not write it would not have made it to publication. I used to like her Crime Show but not really liking her writing skills. I know I saw a couple of you say it picks up in the second half. Hoping.
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