Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera -> Starting March 3rd, 2024

[Aly]

After Lucy is found wandering the streets, covered in her best friend Savvy’s blood, everyone thinks she is a murderer. Lucy and Savvy were the golden girls of their small Texas town: pretty, smart, and enviable. Lucy married a dream guy with a big ring and an even bigger new home. Savvy was the social butterfly loved by all, and if you believe the rumors, especially popular with the men in town. It’s been years since that horrible night, a night Lucy can’t remember anything about, and she has since moved to LA and started a new life.

But now the phenomenally huge hit true crime podcast "Listen for the Lie," and its too-good looking host Ben Owens, have decided to investigate Savvy’s murder for the show’s second season. Lucy is forced to return to the place she vowed never to set foot in again to solve her friend’s murder, even if she is the one that did it.

[Haley]

excited for this one! will start as soon as I'm off work tonight

[Haley]

25% up to ch 14 (view spoiler)[ooooo I’m really liking this. It’s reminding me of a book I read in the past. Giving me Deja vu but I don’t remember the book.

That voice in my head would drive me NUTS! ALSO I’m hoping she starts working with Ben to find out the truth. It seems too obvious but I’m thinking Savvy was hanging out with a lover maybe? It could have been Colin?? The fact that Colin calls her death a “bummer” like what (hide spoiler)]

[Haley]

51 % (view spoiler)[ I HAD A feeling it's possibly Matt that killed her. Maybe he was having an affair with savvy?? & Lucy was so gone from drinking that night she blocked it out. Maybe they both went to kill him & Lucy was hiding only for Matt to come out and kill savvy?? who knows

I hate how everyone is assuming it's Lucy without any evidence to back it up (hide spoiler)]

[Haley]

forgot to add updates!! 90% (view spoiler)[

I understand why Lucy doesn't want people to pity her, especially the same people that were accusing her of killing her best friend. They clearly don't understand the impact of a traumatic head injury...

this quote really stuck out to me when Lucy was blaming herself for the marriage with Matt "he did this to you. he drove you to the brink of your sanity and then blamed you for doing what you had to do to survive. all of this is his fault." (hide spoiler)]

[Haley]

finished WHAT A GOOD FREAKING THRILLER!! (view spoiler)[ I wasn't expecting it to be Elliot in the end... he was flying under the radar. the fact that her parents believed Matt over Lucy??? WHATTT and hid the evidence that could have saved her?? I can't... what parents...

shoutout to her grandma that's been there from the beginning.!! (hide spoiler)]

can't wait to see what your thoughts are on the book!

[Melanie]

Sorry, I fell behind but will be reading this one this week.

[Aneta]

I started an audiobook today so I'm going to join you :)

11%
I went into it completely blind and I'm loving it so far! Podcast was a nice surprise for me. (view spoiler)[To be honest, I would think she is lying about not remembering as well. And she is thinking about killing people all the time! But I think it's a misdirect. (hide spoiler)]

[Aneta]

26%
(view spoiler)[I'm starting to think Matt might have something to do with Savvy. Why would he be afraid of Lucy when everyone thought she was a victim as well. Unless he thought she remembers. (hide spoiler)]

[Aneta]

39%
(view spoiler)[So let me get this straight. Your daughter is injured and not in good state but you still let Savvy's mom in (repeatedly) even though her visits don't have great inpact on her? She was always crying! And then you start implying to people Lucy is the killer.

Wow! What a great mom! (hide spoiler)]

[Aneta]

Finished
(view spoiler)[Why her parent didn't go to the police is beyond me. They weren't protecting her. That's just an excuse! Especially when her mother went to Savvy's mom and basicaly told her Lucy did it!

And Emmett? Well, I didn't expect that! (hide spoiler)]

[Melanie]

Going to pick this one up tomorrow.

[Melanie]

Got behind with other reads so will finally read this one this weekend.

[Melanie]

Still planning to pick this up soon.

[Melanie]

Will finally be reading this after my current reads.

[Melanie]

Still planning to read this soon, just need to catch up some more on my buddy reads.

[Melanie]

Planning to read this one by the end of the month.

[Melanie]

Determined to read this in July.

[Melanie]

Finally started!

Chapters 1-13
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This is really good so far. I like the podcast episodes being listed after the chapters. It's interesting getting to hear everyone's thoughts on what happened, Lucy was right that pretty much everyone thinks she did it. I'm curious if she did or if it was someone else. If it was someone else, who?
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[Melanie]

Will finish this up this weekend.

[Melanie]

Finished this tonight.

Chapters 14-26
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I'm loving all the stuff being exposed on this podcast, no one is safe. The fact Matt abused Lucy isn't a complete surprise and I love that Savvy's reaction was that they should kill him for it. I wonder if they tried to pull it off and something went wrong leaving Savvy dead?
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Chapters 27-39
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Drama, drama, drama. I'm loving this. So much stuff being exposed on the podcast, I love seeing all these secrets come out into the open. At this point Matt is looking more guilty but not 100% sure there. Lucy sleeping with Ben seems like such a bad idea.
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Chapters 40-54
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I hadn't suspected Emmett but when you think about it, it does make sense. I'm glad that he was arrested and Lucy finally knows she didn't kill her best friend. The way her husband and parents just believed she did it is so crappy and I'm glad they were arrested as well for hiding evidence.
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