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A fun thriller that‘s written with humor even though it covers some dark themes. You‘ve read similar stories before: young woman (in this case, Lucy) returns home where something terrible has happened in the past. Much of the internet blames Lucy for the crime. Enter a podcaster, her family, and many others from her past. Will Lucy‘s memory of that fateful night return? So full of tropes but actually enjoyable.

An entertaining read. It‘s a familiar story—a pair of best friends, one is murdered & the survivor soon becomes the main suspect but is never charged due to insufficient evidence. A true crime podcast decides to investigate the case & maybe now the truth will come out. Plenty of possible culprits, including the surviving friend, leave you guessing until the end which, if I have a complaint, wrapped up quickly & a little easily. Fast, fun read.

This was a fantastic listen on audiobook! I loved the addition of the podcast episodes throughout and the production/music that went into them. They were perfect for adding context, suspense, & additional twists, & I would look forward to them each time the music came on! The character development of Lucy & Savvy was perfectly paced to keep me turning the pages.

The final reveal was full of suspense, too! I loved it!

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Me! I have the patience for reading…although in truth, the rule for my irl book club is you don‘t have to read/finish the book but you do have to be ok with spoilers…

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Great read! The podcast perspective was fun!

No favorites this month but I quite enjoyed Listen for the Lie and Sworn to Silence.

#read2025 #serieslove

Sunday reading. ☺️

Grandson started a puzzle on my coffee table two days ago and hasn't touched it since. Guess I'll have to finish it. 😒

So good! I was hooked from the beginning!

#bookspinbingo - got a bingo!
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Lucy was present at her best friend‘s murder five years ago, but she does not remember anything of that night. Because of a lack of evidence, she was never charged, but her whole small Texas town thinks she did it. A new true crime podcast brings renewed interest in the case just as Lucy goes back to visit. It‘s a good audiobook with the podcast set up.

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Nobody in the book is likeable. Lucy is an unreliable narrator, and Ben has an agenda. I had a feeling that I knew what actually happened to Lucy‘s friend, and I was right. I enjoyed the way the story was told, and it‘s perfect for audio. My new #audiowalk book is Wake Up and Open Your Eyes. So far it reminds me a little of Stephen King‘s Cell.

It was such a pretty day today that I had to go out for an #audiowalk. It‘s our false spring, I believe. My azaleas will be tricked into blooming, and then it‘ll get really cold again. I‘m still enjoying Listen for the Lie but only have 2 hours left, so I need to pick a new listen.

Five years ago Lucy‘s best friend, Savvy, was murdered and Lucy was the prime suspect, although she was never charged. Now a podcaster is investigating the case and Lucy returns to the scene of the crime and, with her grandmother‘s encouragement, agrees to talk. The writing was okay, and I guess the mystery was okay, but the book was also just okay. Others might really like it, but it‘s just a soft pick for me.

This book just took an unexpected twist, so now I‘m really interested in the outcome. No one is who you think they are. The pictures on the left are from my morning walk, where I expected it to rain any second. The ones on the right, with the nice, blue sky are from my evening walk — I wasn‘t expecting it to change so much during the day. #audiowalk

This book grabbed me from the start; I hope it keeps up the pace. The combination of casual first person narrative and a podcast makes it particularly good for audio. I was finally able to get in a decent #audiowalk today!

4.5⭐️/5⭐️
I loved this book. I laughed out loud a few times... I almost spit my water across the room! I didn't want it to end! I will be keeping my eye out for her next book. This one's a keeper! 🖤

This book is a good, easy read but something about the ending just didn‘t sit well with me. I was like that was it? I had to go on Reddit to see other people‘s thoughts and then it finally made some sense but still didn‘t really make it any better. There‘s still a part at the end where I felt all the dots were not connected but as I said for the most part it was a pretty good book.

The back and forth between the main character and the podcast works really well as an audiobook. Kept me guessing until (almost) the end!

#52bookclub25 #Prompt19

Not a single likeable character. Everyone is 🛌 with everyone else and seemingly the whole town knows, but no one spotted the physical abuse?

Maybe Tintera should stick to YA novels.

The #audiobook was done well though, I liked the podcast sound effects.

6th book finished for #Read2025 and #JumpStart2025 @DieAReader @LizPixie

This was a very good read, and a good suspense book, and good use of Podcasts throughout. This meant it leant itself very well to the audiobook format, which was narrated well. Tension kept up to the end, and some good twists as the story progressed. Definitely strongly recommended.

Just started the first of the many books Littens nominated during #12Booksof2024.

Thanks to @BarkingMadRead & @TorieStorieS for nominating this.

Each month I am aiming to read 3 or 4 of the books that were nominated, and this is the first. Altogether I added 50 books to my TBR from #12Booksof2024 #Read12Booksof2024

I am reading this via audiobook, & looks like it lends itself to this format.

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Another great one! November‘s top choice, a great thriller, probably top 5 of the year! #12booksin2024 @Andrew65

For Day 2 of the #12BooksOf2024, my February pick was harder to narrow down— but LISTEN FOR THE LIE was one of my favorite audiobooks of the whole year, though honorable mentions must go to the other 5-star reads I read that month (my monthly calendar log in the photo lists the 5 others!).

Thanks @Andrew65 for organizing this fun countdown!

This book comes highly rated. Excited to check it out! 📚❤️

Good, but didn‘t live up to all the hype.

I just finished listening to this and loved it! It‘s a clever, snarky, darkly humorous whodunnit. The audio has multiple narrators (all excellent) and it really brings the podcast element to life. Highly recommend!

Omg this is so hard to put down!!

This is a very well executed book. Plot is strong, even the pop culture elements like the podcast don't feel like empty buzz but are an important mechanism in the story. Lucy the MC is great, very enjoyably messy character. There is a really interesting perspective on Domestic Violence which adds a bit of heft to what is otherwise a beach read type book. Nothing truly original but a very enjoyable read with broad appeal

This was great! It took a long time to get into it and I considered DNFing. I‘m so glad I didn‘t! There are a lot of twists and I didn‘t predict the end. I loved Lucy‘s grandmother so much! I‘ve never listened to a true crime podcast, so that whole angle was foreign to me. There is subtle feminism in here along with some very frustrating situations happening toward some of the female characters, but overall I think Tintera‘s points are effective.

I read this for a book club. I liked a lot of it. I didn‘t like some of it.

Personal preference: I am not about twists just to have twists. Also, I like fall out. I wanted to have more at the end showing how things landed after the reveal.

I get why it‘s popular. The book club meeting had a lot of good conversation. But for me it was mid.

A clever thriller, with a snarky as all get out MC, a twist I genuinely didn't see coming (but made total sense looking back at it), and some thoughtful social commentary on violence against women, who people are willing to believe, and societal expectations of a "good victim". It took me about 1/3 to really get into this one, but then I couldn't put it down.

"My life vastly improved once both those men were gone. Men don't protect us, not really. They only protect themselves, or each other. The only thing men ever protected me from was happiness."

Such a good read for all those people who love listening to true crime podcasts!
Also major coincidence that I read two books consecutively with the main character named Lucy but I prefer this Lucy more!

VERY good! Irreverent. Fantastic, imperfect protagonist. Grandmother is awesome. Loved the subtle feminism. I also loved the pop culture references. Very fast read.

Love me a little Gilmore Girls reference.

My BOTM choice was a winner!

This was a story I kept going back to. I listened on a couple long drives and was totally invested. I loved the cast on the audio version. They made the story even better. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

A podcast exams an unsolved murder and plunges the victim‘s best friend back under the microscope of suspicion. Listening to this on audio made the podcast scenes more realistic. Entertaining enough that I‘d read another book by this author.

Fast paced thrilller with some sharp dialogue along the way. Points for an original take and I didn‘t hate the main protagonist. However it got very messy about half way through and confusing as to who was sleeping with who and whose ex was whose and by that point I didn‘t care enough to keep track. I did love Savvy though and that was a very interesting take. Not as many twists as expected from the hype and I guessed it almost from the start. Ok

Finished this for book club! This is an interesting variety on the true crime podcast storyline seen in mysteries/thrillers! It was interesting to learn things as Lucy was trying to remember them herself. There were some interesting twists. I‘ll be eager to discuss the ending at book club & I did some reading about it online. I‘d love to hear what others thought of the ending. You can post in the comments with the spoiler warning.

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Book of the Month has been really good for expanding my new to me author repertoire. This one I read in one sitting, and I've never heard of the author before.
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You‘ve heard of CSI:Miami. You‘ve heard of NCIS:New Orleans. This book is OMITB:Austin

Seriously, it would make a great show. There are some absolutely laugh-out-loud scenes - Tintera has a great sense of comic timing. The writing overall was a bit pedestrian, but the suspense was well-crafted. The book lurched this way and that as various characters fell under suspicion, and it seemed like the twist might be something truly original, but…

“A podcaster has decided to ruin my life, so I‘m buying a chicken.”
#firstlinefridays @ShyBookOwl

An entertaining whodunnit that kept me guessing til the end. A little corny but a quick, easy read. This is the author‘s debut novel, she‘s written several YA books. I would read more from this author!