• Still Lives

  • A Novel
  • By: Maria Hummel
  • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
  • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
  • 3.4 out of 5 stars (2,126 ratings)

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Still Lives

By: Maria Hummel
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
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Publisher's summary

A Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine on Audible Pick

"It's the ultimate mystery...The suspense will keep you up all night." (Reese Witherspoon)

Kim Lord is an avant garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the LA art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition, Still Lives, is comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous murdered women - the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown Simpson, among many others - and the works are as compelling as they are disturbing, implicating a culture that is too accustomed to violence against women.

As the city's richest art patrons pour into the Rocque Museum's opening night, all of the staff, including editor Maggie Richter, hope the event will be enough to save the historic institution's flailing finances. Except Kim Lord never shows up to her own gala. Fear mounts as the hours and days drag on and Lord remains missing. Suspicion falls upon the up-and-coming gallerist Greg Shaw Ferguson, who happens to be Maggie's ex. A rogue's gallery of eccentric art world figures could also have motive for the act, and as Maggie gets drawn into her own investigation of Lord's disappearance, she'll come to suspect all of those closest to her.

©2018 Maria Hummel (P)2018 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

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Didn’t catch my attention

I barely caught myself paying attention with this book and the voice seemed a little too monotoned for me.

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STILL LIVES.........

There were many times during this story that I just wanted to stop listening; I paid for it so I continued. It didn't have that WOW! factor that warrants me to want to know what happens next. I would NOT recommend this.

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First Reese Witherspoon I didn’t love.

The story didn’t really go anywhere. It’s the first RWBC I didn’t love. Narrator was good.

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Sheesh!

If you like books that are light on plot and extremely heavy on illustrative, descriptive inconsequential details, then this is for you!
It was not for me…

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enjoyed

A little rambling, but overall, enjoyed. Told in the first person. Fun LA references. I'm in a hurry and having trouble getting to the 15 words required to submit my review.

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ummm ... no

After listening to more than a dozen books this summer, this has been the most disappointing. The narrator's voice does not match the main character's traits. The storyline drags. This was a painful read.

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Not for me

Usually love Reece’s picks but this one was just not for me. Storyline was boring and the end left me shaking my head thinking I had wasted a credit.

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Just okay

I rarely write reviews, but this book has been on my mind since finishing it last week. Not in a good way. So many things about the story bother me. The main character, in fact, all of the characters ... are so dull. I felt no emotion for the characters and I felt like Maggie was just a dreary, boring character. I'd rather take a 9 hour and 35 minute nap than listen to this again.

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too much extra information.

This book got better towards the middle...but I had a hard time staying with it at the beginning. it just drag on and on.

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Least favorite 👎

Out of all the “Sunshine “ / Reese book recommendations, this was the only one I didn’t like so far!

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