Long Bright River

A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)

De: Liz Moore

Narrado por: Allyson Ryan

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE PEACOCK TV SERIES STARRING AMANDA SEYFRIED

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR—BY THE AUTHOR OF THE GOD OF THE WOODS

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK

Two sisters travel the same streets, though their lives couldn't be more different. Then one of them goes missing.

In a Philadelphia neighborhood rocked by the opioid crisis, two once-inseparable sisters find themselves at odds. One, Kacey, lives on the streets in the vise of addiction. The other, Mickey, walks those same blocks on her police beat. They don't speak anymore, but Mickey never stops worrying about her sibling.

Then Kacey disappears, suddenly, at the same time that a mysterious string of murders begins in Mickey's district, and Mickey becomes dangerously obsessed with finding the culprit--and her sister--before it's too late.

Alternating its present-day mystery with the story of the sisters' childhood and adolescence, Long Bright River is at once heart-pounding and heart-wrenching: a gripping suspense novel that is also a moving story of sisters, addiction, and the formidable ties that persist between place, family, and fate.

"[Moore’s] careful balance of the hard-bitten with the heartfelt is what elevates Long Bright River from entertaining page-turner to a book that makes you want to call someone you love.” – The New York Times Book Review

"This is police procedural and a thriller par excellence, one in which the city of Philadelphia itself is a character (think Boston and Mystic River). But it’s also a literary tale narrated by a strong woman with a richly drawn personal life – powerful and genre-defying.” – People

"A thoughtful, powerful novel by a writer who displays enormous compassion for her characters. Long Bright River is an outstanding crime novel… I absolutely loved it."
—Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Girl on the Train

Has no heft

I chose this book because of how much I enjoyed Moore's novel Heft. This doesn't compare. It rambled. It explained things in detail that it had mentioned in detail 3 hours earlier. Sure it had plot twists but nothing extraordinary. She is playing in the space of police procedurals which so many other people do better. Perhaps a different backdrop for her character study would have suited her better.

Her sense of place and architecture is strong.

“I say”!

Five hours in & a lot of fluff. She says, “I say” & “He says” after every sentence practically. I’m sure there are other ways of expressing what a person has said. I’m hoping it gets better. I’m from Philadelphia & grew up in Port Richmond & Kensington so I enjoy hearing about familiar places. It was a nice place at one time. So sad how it is today!

Philadelphia is Portrayed So Well!

As a native Philly resident, I found this account moving and fascinating. Some of the accents in the narration were off and sounded more like Brooklyn or other parts of NYC rather than Philly. This bothered me some, but the story was very good.

Captivating story

I became very entrenched in the storyline. I was not a big fan of the narrator, I found her too monotone. I actually wondered for the first 2 hours if she was an AI generated voice. I did eventually get used to her, but I thi k she could have narrated with a more captivating voi e--perhaps it was the production/director that requested her somber tone for the entire book.

A little above par

Some sections were more captivating than others, but I had a hard time sticking with it