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🥰Huge thank you to @ballantinebooks and @prhaudio for the gifted ARC and audiobook!

📖Title: We Don’t Talk About Carol
✍️Author: Kristen L. Berry
📅Pub Date: June 3, 2025
⏳Audiobook Length: 11hrs, 38 mins
🗣️Audiobook Narrator: Nicole Cash

🌸Another incredible debut! There is nothing I love more than a hard-hitting debut book!

📖WE DON’T TALK ABOUT CAROL is the perfect blend of Women’s Fiction/Family Drama and Mystery/Suspense. While there is a mysterious element, this is NOT a past-paced thriller, so make sure you set your expectations; it’s honestly so much better than that! This is a raw and emotional look into a the unsolved disappearance of six black girls in North Carolina in the 1960s.

🌸Set in present day, Sydney Singleton is a journalist who happens upon a photo of someone who looks identical to her while cleaning out her grandmother’s house. What’s soon revealed, is that this photo is of her Aunt Carol, an aunt she never knew she had. Her investigative side gets the best of her as it quickly becomes her OBSESSION to find out who her Aunt Carol was, why her family never talked about her, and ultimately what happened to her.

📖As the truth about Carol is slowly discovered, Sydney unearths more than she ever expected to find. What she finds is shocking and heartbreaking, but also sprinkled with hope. I cared so deeply about every character in this story and felt that each of them had such a unique and strong voice that I felt connected to them all.

⚠️This book was extremely heavy at times, but it was handled in such a delicate way. There is a lot of potentially upsetting content, but most of it is listed in the synopsis, so if you’re concerned, I’d recommend reading that to get an idea of what’s to come.

🌸Kristen L. Berry will definitely be making a name for herself with this book, and I will be eager to see what she writes next!

🎧I started this one in print and then switched to the audiobook and both were great! I really think that Nicole Cash helped bring it to life for me even more, though!

❓How’s your week going? Does May seem insanely busy for anyone else?