I genuinely love books. As a nerdy homeschooled kid, coming home with a stack of fresh reads from my very small local library was the highlight of my week every week. When I first moved to New York, new stories kept me company on the long commute to my boring muggle job. Now, as I live and work in this geeky community, books are a fast connection to the people I want to connect with and a way to support and share and work with incredible authors doing incredible things.
However, as a busy adult with a seemingly-endless todo list, I now read slowly. Like a couple books a year slowly. Which does not work for my original intention of this series: to share the very many books I hear about and get early copies of and want to tell you all about so those of you who read faster than me can enjoy them.
So, this is now a new series. A “To Be Read” series, where I share books I’d like to read and why I think they’ll be great and challenge you to beat me to it.
Starting with, A Nearly Normal Family by M.T. Edvardsson. Despite everything I just said outing myself as the world’s slowest reader, I couldn’t resists the Book of the Month club. (If you want to join me, this link lets you pick your first book for only $5). I’ve been subscribed for about a year, and almost every month I choose the true crime/thriller option. What can I say, I have a type.
A Nearly Normal Family is a legal thriller about a teen girl accused of murdering an older man. As the back cover explains:
Eighteen-year-old Stella Sandell stands accused of the brutal murder of a man almost fifteen years her senior. She is an ordinary teenager from an upstanding local family. What reason could she have to know a shady businessman, let alone to kill him?
Stella’s father, a pastor, and mother, a criminal defense attorney, find their moral compasses tested as they defend their daughter, while struggling to understand why she is a suspect. Told in an unusual three-part structure, A Nearly Normal Family asks the questions: How well do you know your own children? How far would you go to protect them?
Any other suckers for a good crime thriller? Have you already read this book? Ideas for what I should think about reading next? Let’s chat in the comments.
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