I Hope You’re Listening – Blog Tour
Hi friends! Welcome to my I Hope You’re Listening – Blog Tour! This week and month have been really rough, so I haven’t been giving my blog a lot of attention. Hopefully, things will get back to normal soon!
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Title: I Hope You’re Listening
Author: Tom Ryan
Rating: 3 Stars
Genre: YA, Mystery, Thriller
Content Warnings: Kidnapping, attempted murder.
Format: eARC
Publisher: Aw Teen
Date Published: October 6th 2020
Goodreads Description: In her small town, seventeen-year-old Delia “Dee” Skinner is known as the girl who wasn’t taken. Ten years ago, she witnessed the abduction of her best friend, Sibby. And though she told the police everything she remembered, it wasn’t enough. Sibby was never seen again. At night, Dee deals with her guilt by becoming someone else: the Seeker, the voice behind the popular true-crime podcast Radio Silent, which features missing person cases and works with online sleuths to solve them.
Nobody knows Dee’s the Seeker, and she plans to keep it that way. When another little girl goes missing, and the case is linked to Sibby’s disappearance, Dee has a chance to get answers, with the help of her virtual detectives and the intriguing new girl at school. But how much is she willing to reveal about herself in order to uncover the truth? Dee’s about to find out what’s really at stake in unravelling the mystery of the little girls who vanished.
I received a review copy from Netgalley and TBR and Beyond Tours. All opinions are my own.
Book Links
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Review
I really wanted to like this book. Not that I didn’t, but I wanted it to be a 5-star read. It wasn’t. I love reading the occasional mystery thriller, they always surprise me. However, I was a little disappointed with this one.
My main gripe is with the characters. I felt no connection to any of them, and Dee didn’t have much in the way of a personality. Several side characters are completely irrelevant to this story and the romance just came out of nowhere. This was quite a quick read, but there’s definitely more space to explore the characters.
The setting is pretty creepy. The snow-covered town and the surrounding woods give off a perfectly mysterious atmosphere and I loved it. I also enjoyed the podcast episodes and how Dee uses the podcast to help people. It makes the story really heartwarming and I’m really glad everything worked out well.
Sometimes you just need something to go right, especially in 2020.
“None of this is your fault,” she said. “You saved me.”
Let me know your thoughts on I Hope You’re Listening (Blog Tour).
Author Information
Tom Ryan is the award-winning author of several acclaimed books for young readers. He has been nominated for multiple awards and was the winner of the 2020 Arthur Ellis Award for Best YA Crime Book. Two of his books were Junior Library Guild selections, and three of his young adult novels, Way to Go, Tag Along, and Keep This to Yourself, were chosen for the ALA Rainbow List, in 2013, 2014 and 2020. He was a 2017 Lambda Literary Fellow in Young Adult Fiction.
Tom, his husband and their dog currently divide their time between Ottawa and Nova Scotia. You can visit his website here.
Giveaway
A finished copy of I Hope You’re Listening. This giveaway is US only and ends on October 20th.
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Tour Information
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It seems as if this book could’ve been better but I am glad you enjoyed it.
I think I’m going to add this one to my TBR list. It looks like my alley.
Always such a shame when you want to love a book but it doesn’t hit the mark. Great review.
Sorry to hear that this didn’t work for you. Hope your next read will be better