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Ezi Chinny (ezinwanyi) | 16657 comments Mod
Blurb:
stunning debut novel in which a single mother reconstructs her teenaged daughter's life, sifting through her emails, texts, and social media to piece together the shocking truth about the last days of her life.

Litigation lawyer and harried single mother Kate Baron is stunned when her daughter's exclusive private school in Park Slope, Brooklyn, calls with disturbing news: her intelligent, high-achieving fifteen-year-old daughter, Amelia, has been caught cheating.

Kate can't believe that Amelia, an ambitious, levelheaded girl who's never been in trouble would do something like that. But by the time she arrives at Grace Hall, Kate's faced with far more devastating news. Amelia is dead.

Seemingly unable to cope with what she'd done, a despondent Amelia has jumped from the school's roof in an act of "spontaneous" suicide. At least that's the story Grace Hall and the police tell Kate. And overwhelmed as she is by her own guilt and shattered by grief, it is the story that Kate believes until she gets the anonymous text:

She didn't jump.

Sifting through Amelia's emails, text messages, social media postings, and cell phone logs, Kate is determined to learn the heartbreaking truth about why Amelia was on Grace Hall's roof that day-and why she died.

Told in alternating voices, Reconstructing Amelia is a story of secrets and lies, of love and betrayal, of trusted friends and vicious bullies. It's about how well a parent ever really knows a child and how far one mother will go to vindicate the memory of a daughter whose life she could not save.


VNerdbooks (v_nerdbooks) | 5307 comments Checking in


K~Terror (k-terror) | 4537 comments Hey! I'm here too!

Looking forward to this one too :)


K~Terror (k-terror) | 4537 comments Want to try to get to this one next week?


VNerdbooks (v_nerdbooks) | 5307 comments ya I'm up for it


K~Terror (k-terror) | 4537 comments YAY!! I've heard this one is really good!


K~Terror (k-terror) | 4537 comments I'm thinking I will finish
Bird Box by Josh Malerman
today ~ and can start on
Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight
tomorrow....

How is Bird Box coming for you?

Super creeeeeeeeppppppyyyyyyy.....


VNerdbooks (v_nerdbooks) | 5307 comments sounds good!
Mega creepy lol


K~Terror (k-terror) | 4537 comments Did you finish it????? I just did....
What the heck?????


K~Terror (k-terror) | 4537 comments Had mixed emotions about that ending... Glad she was safe... but what (view spoiler)


I just started Reconstructing Amelia. The very beginning reminded me of Gossip Girl.. LOL!




VNerdbooks (v_nerdbooks) | 5307 comments I haven't started it yet, will be this afternoon, haven't watched GG so I wouldn't know lol

The birds were (view spoiler)


K~Terror (k-terror) | 4537 comments I kept thinking there was more (view spoiler)


VNerdbooks (v_nerdbooks) | 5307 comments Yeah that's about right (view spoiler)


K~Terror (k-terror) | 4537 comments I bet you are right - it probably did have something to do with Gary (view spoiler)


VNerdbooks (v_nerdbooks) | 5307 comments Yeah I know poor Tom! I though it was twins too lol


K~Terror (k-terror) | 4537 comments Don't most of us have a friend like Sylvia? LOL!


VNerdbooks (v_nerdbooks) | 5307 comments Oh shit !
Didn't read the blurb, didn't see that coming !!


VNerdbooks (v_nerdbooks) | 5307 comments okay just read it now, this sounds good lol


K~Terror (k-terror) | 4537 comments Ugh! 1-Hour 33-Minutes in...

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K~Terror (k-terror) | 4537 comments V Audio Nerd wrote: "Oh shit !
Didn't read the blurb, didn't see that coming !!"


Heartbreaking....


VNerdbooks (v_nerdbooks) | 5307 comments OMG her mother did NOT just say that!!!
New found freedom?!?!? is she for fucking real?????


K~Terror (k-terror) | 4537 comments I know it!!! Couldn't have thought of a better come back myself... She is heartless!


VNerdbooks (v_nerdbooks) | 5307 comments I know she said come back to her, and I puched the air lol


VNerdbooks (v_nerdbooks) | 5307 comments or even punched haha!


K~Terror (k-terror) | 4537 comments HaHa!

Then after her mom, she has to deal with the PTA mom....


VNerdbooks (v_nerdbooks) | 5307 comments Not there yet, just up to her going back to work and getting the 2nd text to her phone, how awful!

Amelia is now meeting "The Magpies" under the tree in the park, something tells me that they are not going to be nice girls!!


K~Terror (k-terror) | 4537 comments Being a 15 year old girl is just hard!

My daughter is young for her grade, so she's having to navigate 15 year old girls while she's 14. Sometimes it just makes me go all grrrrrr!


VNerdbooks (v_nerdbooks) | 5307 comments urgh teenage girls are awful!


K~Terror (k-terror) | 4537 comments I had to take a break for a bit so I'm at the part where Kate is talking with Sylvia...


VNerdbooks (v_nerdbooks) | 5307 comments This is confusing!

So I think Ben (view spoiler)


VNerdbooks (v_nerdbooks) | 5307 comments I'm 4hrs 47 min in


VNerdbooks (v_nerdbooks) | 5307 comments Who the hell is sending these texts ??


K~Terror (k-terror) | 4537 comments I know... I've had to back up and re-listen to bits and pieces of this. There is so much information, you really have to pay close attention.

I've gotten confused on what the mom knows and what she doesn't know from Amelia's texts and stuff. Sometimes I can tell it's Amelia's POV but sometimes it's her mom (Kate) reading Amelia's stuff. So when Kate's conclusions are not quite accurate, I end up backing up to listen to it again.

I have roughly 3 hours left. I know what you are saying about Ben too and I'm curious to find out there will be some sort of reveal with "nerd Ben" too. He's been kind of left in the background during the last part of the book.

Let me know when you get to where Amelia's father is revealed by Kate... I have a question.. (view spoiler)


VNerdbooks (v_nerdbooks) | 5307 comments ooh okay I'm not up to that bit yet so I won't read that lol.

I'm up to the kiss!

This is getting interesting now, Zadie (sp) seems the jealous type !


VNerdbooks (v_nerdbooks) | 5307 comments So its not been revealed yet but I think that Seth (view spoiler)


K~Terror (k-terror) | 4537 comments V Audio Nerd wrote: "ooh okay I'm not up to that bit yet so I won't read that lol.

I'm up to the kiss!

This is getting interesting now, Zadie (sp) seems the jealous type !"


It was actually a spoiler you CAN read! HAHA!


VNerdbooks (v_nerdbooks) | 5307 comments Nooo reveal!!!!!


VNerdbooks (v_nerdbooks) | 5307 comments Haha just read it lol


VNerdbooks (v_nerdbooks) | 5307 comments I don't understand why Kate is allowed to go with the detective to ask questions, is that normal?


K~Terror (k-terror) | 4537 comments I know right?? I'm guessing if he needs her insights maybe??? I wondered about that too... Maybe her being a lawyer helps give her street cred with the cop. Lol!


VNerdbooks (v_nerdbooks) | 5307 comments lol yes that's true!

So hit me with the question haha


K~Terror (k-terror) | 4537 comments Did you get to the daddy reveal?


VNerdbooks (v_nerdbooks) | 5307 comments Yes it's (view spoiler) right?


K~Terror (k-terror) | 4537 comments OK - that's what I remembered. Later there's a gray discussion but has to do with someone else, so then I thought I had remembered it incorrectly.


K~Terror (k-terror) | 4537 comments I've got about 3.5 hours left... Kate & the cop just left Ms. Pearl...

(view spoiler)


VNerdbooks (v_nerdbooks) | 5307 comments I don't know if I'm up to that part yet I'm confused now lol.

She has had the meeting with Liv and (view spoiler)

I think you must be ahead of me


VNerdbooks (v_nerdbooks) | 5307 comments OMG Zadie is a bitch!


VNerdbooks (v_nerdbooks) | 5307 comments And so is Dylan too, I didn't see that coming !!


K~Terror (k-terror) | 4537 comments Isn't Zadie awful????? Dylan is spineless... I'm not sure what is up with her but was so disappointed in her.

I'm ahead of you but I don't think by too much.

Yes, that's what I mean about Ian - it relates back to dumb pics.


K~Terror (k-terror) | 4537 comments I'm 30 minutes into part 6...

(view spoiler)


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