Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera OMG, yes please! Listening this one is a better experience than reading it I would think. Lucy is from a small town in Texas, and has been accused to stabbing her best friend to death. She has no memory of the event, as they’d all been drinking. She was just found with Savvy’s blood all over her and scratches and bruises. She has not been convicted because there isn’t actual evidence that she’s even done it. She has to go back home to Texas for her grandmother’s 80th birthday party, but while the party prep is happening there is a true crime podcaster in town investigating the murder. So the chapters alternate between Lucy’s story moving forward and the podcast episodes where the investigation is unfolding—this is why listening to it was a great experience, it was a lot like Someone Knows Something. So Lucy gets interviewed by the podcast guy and agrees to help him, after all she needs to clear her name. And then of course they figure out what happened that night. But it’s super cool to hear all the interviews of everyone in town who has a theory and an opinion. Loved it.
Brave by Rose McGowan Rose McGowan was a moderately successful actress in the late 90s early 2000s. I think she was more famous for being Marilyn Manson’s girlfriend and she wore that naked dress to the MTV Music Awards that time. What we didn’t know about her at the time was that she was one of Harvey Weinstein’s assault victims. Rose McGowan was one of the women who not stepped forward but leapt forward to bring this guy down at great risk to their careers. She’s incredibly angry at the Hollywood industry and it’s treatment of women actors. And her story I hope will help making things more equitable for women actors.
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