#Benjamin Stevenson

[a-ramblinrose]

JOMP BPC || August 9 || Favorite Title: Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

[literary-illuminati]

The chatty easy read mystery might be a bit much for me, but still- good line

[smileandneversurrender]

La tua famiglia non è chi ha il tuo stesso sangue, sono le persone per cui sei disposto a versarlo.

Tutti nella mia famiglia hanno ucciso qualcuno - Benjamin Stevenson

[razreads]

Owe, owe, owe. You use that word so much. A family is not a credit card.

Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

[wideeyedreader]

Recently Read: Everyone on This Train is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson

4.75 stars! Not as gripping at first as the previous book, but still so good.

[desdasiwrites]

– Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

[readingoals]

Going into this I was a little worried I wouldn't like it, that it'd feel too much like trying to copy or cash in on the success of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone. But it didn't! It kept the tone and voice of the first book but was a separate story with new characters so I never felt like it was an unnecessary sequel. It will be interesting to see if he writes more though. I think he could get away with a few more but the way these mysteries are presented I think makes them hard to keep doing indefinitely.

Anyway, The characters were fun, the mystery was interesting, and I really love Ernest as a narrator. Also, another Aussie author, we love to see it! I had a blast with this one and ended up giving it 5 stars.

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Happy World Book Day!!!!!! 📔📚

[anonymouslysincere]

What’s your favourite book and why?

Honestly that's hard 😭 bc I like a lot of different books but I'll put them down below based off the genres I've read!

Fantasy: Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare, Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross and Fourth wing by Rebecca Yarros! (The Rebecca's r cooking w dis one)

Mystery: A Good Girls guide to Murder by Holly Jackson and Everyone in my Family is a Killer by Benjamin Stevenson!

Thriller: Five Survive by Holly Jackson (it's a bit of thriller/mystery)

The reason why? I personally think the authors do a great job with portraying the characters, their struggles and the books are just impossible to put down in general! And that's basically it! Ty for asking <3

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April Reads

9 books this month!

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (★ ★ ★ ★/5): I’ve finally read the og fantasy book and honestly it was so nice to go back to the basics before “romantasy” became a thing. An adventure for an adventure's sake !

The War of Two Queens by Jennifer Armentrout (★ ★ ★/5): this book should’ve been book 2 and we could’ve skipped those other ones. There’s a lot of unnecessary back and forth in this book and once again I stress the importance of editors. The anticipated threesome was okay, could’ve been better tbh. Honestly, I will not be finishing this series- especially after learning that book 5 is literally just a retelling of book 1 in Casteel’s POV. Respectfully I don’t care enough to continue

Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade (★ ★ ★/5): this book, much like the storyline consists of, reads like fanfiction. I was genuinely taken aback by the Ao3-formatted chapters within this book, like I did not think that was necessary but okay. Not awful, but be prepared for cringy adults (almost 40 yrs old btw) that have little to no communication skills

Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco (★ ★ ★/5): I'm a little late to the hype of this book but it was enjoyable nonetheless. I loved Audrey Rose and Thomas' interactions and all props to them both for being interested in mortuary science... couldn't be me

Hunting Prince Dracula by Kerri Maniscalco (★ ★ ★ ★/5): this was a good mysterious follow up to the first book, although I think it's funny that they went through all of that to not get admitted into the forensics school (also these poor children have soo much trauma now)

Recoding America by Jennifer Pahlka (★ ★ ★/5): a good insight into how efforts to make the government smaller have actually made possible technological advancements nearly impossible (at least on government websites). The policy loopholes (more like tangles) are astounding and frustrating and the government is a mess

Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel (★ ★ ★ ★ ★/5): I'm only a little familiar with the original Hindu myth of Ramayana but I feel like this take was so good! I really enjoyed Kaikeyi's story and learning abt her motivations for what she did, mythology (and history) is never kind to female voices, and I think their stories need to be told too

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson (★ ★ ★ ★/5): what a fun little mystery novel! The humor of the narrator made this quite enjoyable and quick to read, although I'm a little disappointed this wasn't a story about a family of serial killers

Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune (★ ★ ★ ★ ★/5): this was such a wholesome story about life after death and seeing the best in humanity. This also taught me that life is too short to not be lived. Go out into the world and live and love and learn and do all the things you want to do without waiting for the "right" moment !

[a-ramblinrose]

“Call me a reliable narrator. Everything I tell you will be the truth, or, at least, the truth as I knew it to be at the time that I thought I knew it.” ― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

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Here's sample of Don't Hang Up by Benjamin Stevenson, narrated by Luke Arnold and Sibylla Budd.

Description:

‘You and I are going to have a chat. If you hang up, this girl dies.’ Adam Turner works the mid-dawn shift at his local radio station. From 12am to 6am, it’s his job to fill the airtime with old songs, inane chatter, and the occasional talkback caller. It’s a long way from his prime-time slot from over a decade ago, when he was a star in the making. Now there’s no producers, no billboards, no stakes, and, crucially, not many listeners. His frequent callers are drunk college students headed home from a night out, or long-range truck drivers. He is completely alone in the studio from midnight until dawn every night. And then one night at 12:45am, he gets a different kind of call, with higher stakes than he could ever have wanted. The caller’s rules are simple – stay on the line, live on air, until dawn, or the woman they are holding captive will die. The night wears on and Adam is tormented by his caller, forced to answer increasingly personal questions, exposing his fall from grace for all to hear. He must try to figure out just who is calling him, what they really want, and how he can stop them. All while staying live on air, and keeping the psycho talking. But as the conversation gets deeper, is Adam willing to broadcast his darkest secrets to the world in order to keep a stranger safe?

You can buy full version of Don't Hang Up by Benjamin Stevenson on Audible here

[razreads]

Family is not whose blood runs in your veins, it's who you'd spill it for.

Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

[caffeinated-bibliophile]

Ok, this (Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson, read by Barton Welch) is fun and I'm having such a good time so far 😊

[desdasiwrites]

– Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone