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I Hope You're Listening
I Hope You're Listening
I Hope You're Listening
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I Hope You're Listening

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2021 Lambda Literary Award - LGBTQ Mystery
2021 Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence Finalist for Best Juvenile or YA Crime Book
2021 Best Books for Kids & Teens starred selection, The Canadian Children's Book Centre
2022 TAYSHAS Reading List, Texas Library Association
2022 ALA Rainbow Book List

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 persons 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 unraveling the mystery of the little girls who vanished.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherAW Teen
Release dateOct 6, 2020
ISBN9780807535097
Author

Tom Ryan

Tom Ryan served as publisher and editor of the Newburyport, Massachusetts, newspaper The Undertoad for more than a decade. In 2007 he sold the newspaper and moved to the White Mountains of New Hampshire with miniature schnauzer Atticus M. Finch. Over the last five years, Tom and Atticus have climbed more than 450 four-thousand-foot peaks.

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  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    An easy dose of YA mystery that kept me turning the pages. There were times - especially at the end - where it felt really noticeable that Dee was a teen girl written by a dude based on the choices she made, but as a Queer Woman who was once a Queer Teen - The author crushed that bit and I am honestly very glad I read this book.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Probably 3.25 stars if I want to get particular about it. I liked this but I wasn't super satisfied with the way it ended.

    All the way until the end, I thought I was probably going to give this a 3.5-4 stars. I liked the characters, especially Dee. I would have liked to have seen more of her relationship with Burke and her family but generally she was interesting. I liked her relationship with Sarah, though it definitely was a bit quick moving. I liked the podcast stuff. My only complaint there was that I would have liked the podcast to be a bit more relevant to the central mystery in this book and not just a side mystery. I really liked the writing. This book was super quick to get through and a very fun read and I think a lot of that is because of the good writing. Basically, there was a lot to love about this book, it just didn't quite do it for me.

    Outside of my problems with the mysteries, I just felt like there were a lot of loose ends at the end of this. I wanted to know more about the other journalist that Dee met up with. I wanted to know how the podcast mystery ended up being solved. We never got to learn why Brianna didn't like Dee. I just had a lot of questions at the end.

    With the mystery, it did something I really don't like. The solution is something super unexpected to the point that there were no hints of it and you couldn't have predicted it. The answer to the Sibby mystery isn't introduced until way late in the book. I usually don't try to solve mysteries as I'm reading them because I'm bad at it but I like to see how earlier things connected to the answer once it's revealed. In this case, I don't think anything in the early part of the book mattered for figuring out the mystery. The Layla mystery is also solved in a way that left me unsatisfied because it was also very hard if not impossible to predict. I just don't think there were enough clues left for the reader in the earlier parts of this story. The podcast mystery ending is completely unsatisfactory because we don't get to know anything about how it concluded beyond that it did conclude.

    I liked this book. I would have given it a much higher rating if the mysteries were more satisfying. I will definitely be keep my eye out for whatever this author publishes next. If this book seems interesting, I would still say go ahead and pick it up and hopefully you'll enjoy the reading experience.

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