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❤️🎧📖AUDIOBOOK REVIEW📖🎧❤️

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🥰Thank you to @macmillan.audio for the free audiobook! #macaudio2024

📖Title: Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder
✍️Author: @kerrynmayneauthor
📅Pub date: July 9, 2024
🗣️Narrator: Annie Maynard
⏳Audiobook length: 9hrs 41mins

❤️Listen, I know some people get annoyed with book titles like LENNY MARKS GETS AWAY WITH MURDER and FINLAY DONOVAN IS KILLING IT and ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETEY FINE, but I, for one, love them. This is the perfect title for this book.

❤️Lenny Marks is what you’d get if you combined Sally Diamond (from STRANGE SALLY DIAMOND) and ELEANOR OLIPHANT.

❤️Based on the title and cover alone, I was expecting a cozy mystery with an amateur sleuth but I was SO WRONG. This is not really cozy (okay, maybe a little) and it’s not really a mystery (also MAYBE a little). I’d describe it as a character study in which readers learn about the character as she simultaneously learns about herself. It almost felt like a coming-of-age story, but in reverse, as she tries to go back in time to her childhood to understand who she is today.

❤️This is darker than I expected, but is dressed up to seem cutesy with a socially awkward character who has 36 copies of THE HOBBIT, plays scrabble, and talks to her imaginary friend. Only once the many layers of past trauma are slowly revealed through flashbacks do we begin to understand the awkward and quirky Lenny Marks is really a scarred and broken human who doesn’t even fully understand how dark her past was. That is, until she gets a call from the parole board and things begin to unravel.

❤️Even with her broken past, Lenny is still an overall delightful character and one I was rooting for the whole time. I was very pleased by how the story ended for her and I’ll remember her for a long time.

🎧The narration was done by Annie Maynard and she did a great job! I literally couldn’t stop listening and it kept me company during four hours on the road alone last weekend!

📖I loved that the author thanked @sallyhepworth in the author’s note for encouraging her to write this book because I really think Sally fans will love this book!

Below is the UK cover! Which one do you like more?

❓How’s your week going?