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Are you sleeping kathleen barber serial#
Serial meets Ruth Ware's In a Dark, Dark Wood in this inventive and twisty psychological thriller about a megahit podcast that reopens a murder case - and threatens to unravel the carefully constructed life of the victim's daughter.
Are you sleeping kathleen barber movie#
( In fact, I probably will foist it upon friends and unsuspecting strangers for quite a while – especially now that I hear that it will be a movie starring the amazing Octavia Spencer).The only thing more dangerous than a lie.is the truth. Were it not for the ending, this would have easily been a five cocktail read.Īs it stands, however, I would still entirely recommend this book. It was just that the way in which this key question was answered – and how quickly the book came to a close after – left me wanting more.
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That said, however, the ending was logical and the answer to the driving question of “Who done it?” was pretty believable.
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I felt like the climax just wasn’t quite climactic enough.Īs readers, we were going up-up-up on that roller coaster ( which felt really good) but then we never went down that big hill. Listen, I’ve had the worst luck with endings lately.Īnd, admittedly, this one wasn’t horrible. My other issue is a bit more significant. This is one of those books that it just feels wonderful to read ( which is seriously like the unicorn factor I am always seeking in a book, so thanks for that, Kathleen Barber) To my delight, the prose in this novel was beautifully lyrical. So she just needs to prevent him from hearing the podcast, right?īefore Josie can even craft a simple plan like this something-fucking-else happens, literally forcing her to go home and actually face the demons she has, despite her best efforts, failed to outrun.Ĭomplexed and layered, this plot grabs you from the start and – like Josie’s past – hangs on tight.įrom chapter one, readers are immersed in Josie’s life and invested in her as a flawed-but-real character. Making matters even more complicated ( as if it’s not already fucking complicated enough), Josie’s current live-in boyfriend knows absolutely nothing of this past, as she has always told him that both of her parents died in a decidedly benign manner. Meanwhile, her twin sister, Lanie, floated through her teen years in a cloud of drug usage and promiscuity. You see, unfortunately for Josie, her father’s murder isn’t the only skeleton in her closet.Īs you would expect, things weren’t exactly roses and sunshine after his death either.įollowing his murder her mother, who always had a precarious grip on her sanity, lost it completely and ran away to join a cult.
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This leaves her bathed in limelight and forces her to face her complicated past. Unfortunately for Josie, this podcast, catapults to Making a Murderer levels of popularity pretty much overnight. After all, the crime was solved and a killer convicted.īut though the once-emo-teen neighbor, Warren Cave, still remains behind bars, serving time for this murder, podcast runner Poppy Parnell (a former investigative journalist who I basically pictured as Nancy Grace but younger and ever so slightly less crazy) asserts that Warren is actually innocent and that justice has most certainly not been served. It seemed to Josie that she should be able to put this incident behind her. That is until a podcast pops up that draws new attention to what is pretty much the most significant incident from her past that she was trying to escape – the murder of her father. Josie had been surprisingly successful in leaving her past behind. She even traded her tarnished family moniker of Burhman for a brand-spanking-new last name. She dedicated a meaningful period of time to backpacking around Europe ( which is probably the most glamorous and enjoyable way to forget, TBH)