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A review by obsidian_blue
Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
2.0
I think I'm really tired of the true crime podcast genre books that are coming out because they just really don't work for me much anymore. This just didn't make a lot of sense it was very uneven and the main character was just exhausting after a while.
"Listen for the Lie" follows a divorced woman named Lucy. Lucy we find out was accused of the murder of her best friend, Savvy, five years ago and fled her former hometown. But now a podcast, called "Listen for the Lie" that is hosted by a man named Ben Owens, drags up the murder of Savvy and starts to take a new direction on the case.
Look, Lucy is a mess. And we maybe find out why in the end she has a lot of "conflicting thoughts" about stuff, but it was too hard to get into. I started getting irritated between the present and the five years ago flips along with the podcast scripts we got. The whole book had me shrugging the whole way through. The podcast never shows us anything in-depth about Savvy at all, we only get that through Lucy's memories. I wonder if the author was going for the whole the victims don't matter to most true crime podcasts sentiment that many people have now, but I doubt it.
The other characters are just stick figures that get moved around and around. Lucy is a mess, Savvy is developed [slightly] but you don't know, or at least I didn't know if what Lucy remembered about her was true at all sometimes. And then I just gave up. Ben Owens was a non-entity. Lucy's ex-husband, Matt had so many character shifts I just didn't even get it. It didn't even make sense in the end about him in my opinion..
The flow was bad [see above].
The setting of a small town in Texas was just shrug after a while.
The ending wasn't great.
"Listen for the Lie" follows a divorced woman named Lucy. Lucy we find out was accused of the murder of her best friend, Savvy, five years ago and fled her former hometown. But now a podcast, called "Listen for the Lie" that is hosted by a man named Ben Owens, drags up the murder of Savvy and starts to take a new direction on the case.
Look, Lucy is a mess. And we maybe find out why in the end she has a lot of "conflicting thoughts" about stuff, but it was too hard to get into. I started getting irritated between the present and the five years ago flips along with the podcast scripts we got. The whole book had me shrugging the whole way through. The podcast never shows us anything in-depth about Savvy at all, we only get that through Lucy's memories. I wonder if the author was going for the whole the victims don't matter to most true crime podcasts sentiment that many people have now, but I doubt it.
The other characters are just stick figures that get moved around and around. Lucy is a mess, Savvy is developed [slightly] but you don't know, or at least I didn't know if what Lucy remembered about her was true at all sometimes. And then I just gave up. Ben Owens was a non-entity. Lucy's ex-husband, Matt had so many character shifts I just didn't even get it. It didn't even make sense in the end about him in my opinion.
Spoiler
why would he go to her parents to protect her when he was beating the woman and cheating on her? It just didn't make sense. A man like that would have used what he knew to keep her from leaving him. His characterization and some of the other men in this book was all over the place.The flow was bad [see above].
The setting of a small town in Texas was just shrug after a while.
The ending wasn't great.