Heart Full of Lies by Ann Rule

Heart Full of Lies by Ann Rule
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Awesomely Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell; this Ann Rule book/audiobook involves a totally soulless woman, Liysa (I won't mention all of her last names due to marriages) who kills her husband, Chris Northon, and pleads battered woman as her defense. Through her own writings which were found as the trial begins, Liysa still tells her supporters she was beaten and abused by her husband, and had to kill him. But as with any sociopath, her lies are exposed and she pleads guilty. She leaves two sons & she said was they reason she killed Chris, to protect them but in the aftermath they were shuttled around since Liysa kept demanding that they not be with Chris' family. The whole story had me captivated and I was horrified she still kept up her lies and even manufactured more.
Now she is out and married a writer while in prison and he wrote a book refuting Ann Rules' book because of course Liysa told her lies and he believed her! I wonder when she will get tired of her latest conquest and move on or kill him?

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Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman

Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Akemi Dawn Bowman's main character Rumi Seto struggles with grief after her sister dies and her mom sends her to live with Aunt in Hawaii. Grief manifests itself in many many ways and with Rumi she is angry, combative, mean (she is like this normallytoo) unlike her sweet sister Lea. In Hawaii, challenged by why her mother sent her away to suffer her sister's loss alone, Rumi meets an irascible next door neighbor and a teen her age, Kai (Half Korean/Half Japanese) and begins her journey to finish the last song she and Lea were composing. I ached for Rumi's loss, her sorrow over how she treated her sister in life and how she wished she died rather than Lea. But I rooted for her and so will the reader as she "tries" music (words and instruments), makes friends, questions her personality as well as her "romantic" feelings.

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