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    With Malice
    With Malice
    With Malice
    Audiobook7 hours

    With Malice

    Written by Eileen Cook

    Narrated by Whitney Dykhouse

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    For fans of We Were Liars and The Girl on the Train comes a chilling, addictive psychological thriller about a teenage girl who cannot remember the last six weeks of her life.

    Eighteen-year-old Jill Charron's senior trip to Italy was supposed to be the adventure of a lifetime. And then the accident happened. Waking up in a hospital room, her leg in a cast, stitches in her face, and a big blank canvas where the last 6 weeks should be, Jill comes to discover she was involved in a fatal accident in her travels abroad. She was jetted home by her affluent father in order to receive quality care. Care that includes a lawyer. And a press team. Because maybe the accident...wasn't an accident. Wondering not just what happened but what she did, Jill tries to piece together the events of the past six weeks before she loses her thin hold on her once-perfect life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJun 7, 2016
    ISBN9781511356886
    With Malice
    Author

    Eileen Cook

    Eileen Cook is a multi-published author with her novels appearing in eight different languages. She spent most of her teen years wishing she were someone else or somewhere else, which is great training for a writer. Eileen lives in Vancouver with her two very naughty dogs and no longer wishes to be anyone or anywhere else. www.eileencook.com.

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    • 2/5
      I thought it was pretty fine but the ending wasn’t my favorite..
    • 3/5
      This book was okay, it was interesting enough to keep me listening but the end kind of fell flat.

      The girl reading it did a good job.
    • 1/5
      Horrible book. I know a lot of people love this book, but it just wasn't for me.
    • 1/5
      Do NOT waste your time. This ending could have been REALLY something - but it was boring and bland. There’s no complex ending.
    • 3/5
      3.5, I enjoyed reading it and was satisfied with the ending, but it didn't wow me and I probably wouldn't reread it.
    • 5/5
      This was a very entertaining story that kept me guessing all the way through. Jill Charron wakes up to find herself in a hospital with a broken leg and a brain injury that has wiped out the last six weeks of her life. She also has aphasia and difficulty remembering familiar words. Jill doesn't know that time has passed and is worried that she won't be able to go on her trip of a lifetime to Italy. She is also distressed that her best friend Simone hasn't contacted or visited her. Her parents, who haven't spent much time together since her father left her mother for a younger woman, are finally forced to tell her that she had been in a car accident in Italy with Simone and that Simone died. But there is worse news yet, the Italian police are convinced that Jill murdered her friend Simone. Jill can't believe that happened. She and Simone had been best friends since fourth grade. They weren't really alike. Jill was from an affluent family and Simone was not. Jill was quiet and studious and a little bit shy. Simone liked to be the center of attention and was charismatic. Nonetheless they were best friends.While Jill is in the rehab hospital trying to get physically better and perhaps to recover some of her memories, she is being tried in the court of public opinion. At first, she is vilified. Every one of her Facebook posts is analyzed by people looking to see signs that she killed Simone. Experts, who never met her, were glad to appear on television and share their opinions about her state of mind and the state of the friendship. The story is partially told in blog posts and police reports but mostly from Jill's point of view as she tries to find out what happened. I was wondering too as I followed the plot and I am still wondering as I finished the book.Have you read this one? I want to talk about it.
    • 5/5
      Received this as an ARC from Edelweiss
      Really good!! Reminded me of We Were Liars
    • 3/5
      After reading Dangerous Girls, this book was very similar-2 best friends, one dead. Is the survivor really a good girl to be trusted? In this book, Jill and Simone have been friends for years. Jill awakes from a coma to find that her best friend is dead, and Jill is suspected of killing her. As Jill recovers from her injuries and her amnesia, will she remember what happened with Simone?
    • 4/5
      I would not call this a great read but gave it four stars because it held my interest. I think it gives us a realistic glimpse into the minds of teenage girls as scary as that is. I feel like not enough emotion was portrayed by the main character. In the situation this young girl found herself in I would expect more frustration and outbursts then what was portrayed.
    • 4/5
      It's not quite "Dangerous Girls", but that's not a bad comparison.
    • 3/5
      3.5
      This book had a really compelling story-line. I finished it in less than a day because I didn't want to put it down, I wanted to know what happened. However, I don't really like how teenagers are portrayed in this novel. I felt like the author leaned too much on the stereotypical teenager who isn't that bright and just likes to gossip. While the main character and Anna were a bit of a break from this, the other characters seen through interviews came off as too artificial.

      The big realization at the end of the novel was pretty predictable. I saw it coming half-way through. Still, for the length of the novel I thought it was interesting and it kept me reading, so overall, a good read.

      I think what I really love about this book is that it sheds light on how much the media distorts the news.
    • 4/5
      This was a great mystery thriller! Jill Charron, a high school senior, wakes up in a hospital bed with no memory of the past six weeks. As facts start to filter in - a trip to Italy, a horrible car accident - Jill starts to question who she is and what her relationship was to her best friend Simone, the other person involved in the accident. Was the accident really an accident?The story definitely kept me guessing. As the story progressed, I was able to figure out a couple of the twists, but only because I had to think diabolically. LOL As the end of the book approached, I saw where it was likely headed, but it still grabbed me when the final twist was revealed. I was right in my guess about the ending, but it still sucker-punched me.If I hadn't been able to guess any of the twists, I would have given the book 5 stars. My being able to guess some of it took some of the wind out of its sails, but it's still an excellent book. I usually don't like books that feature teen-aged protagonists, but I really enjoyed this one.Nicely done, Eileen Cook. I look forward to reading more of your books in the future.
    • 4/5
      Eighteen-year-old Jill Charron wakes up in a hospital room. She has no idea what happened to put her there. In fact, she has no idea what happened over the last six weeks. Her parents and her lawyer have to inform her that she was involved in a fatal accident while on a school trip in Italy and she was flown home to the United States thanks to her rich father. But the Italian police want her to come back. Because they don't think the accident was an accident. They think Jill is a murderer.

      Snippets of memories pop into Jill's head every now and then but she can't seem to get them to stay. She wants desperately to make sense of them so she can clear her name. Deep down she knows she didn't do it, but what if she's wrong?

      I enjoyed the writing. I liked reading the blog posts, emails, texts, facebook pages, and police interviews with those involved in the school trip. I liked the suspense. Basically I liked everything about the book right up until the very end. It felt like it was missing something. It wasn't as in depth and seemed too short compared to everything else that went on in the book.
    • 4/5
      Eighteen-year-old Jill Charron wakes up in a hospital, unable to remember the past six weeks, including the accident that killed her best friend, if it was, in fact, an accident.
    • 4/5
      A sort of retelling of the Amanda Knox story with some twisty turny bits.
    • 4/5
      Jill wakes up in the hospital missing six weeks of her life-including the truth about the car crash that her best friend Simone died in.This was a book I absolutely could not put down. I read it in less than a day. It's so suspenseful, you just have to keep reading.I really liked the way Cook integrated other types of media, such as interview transcripts, blogs, and TV news shows. Alternating these chapters with chapters narrated by Jill just contributed to the suspense.Jill is a complex character, who Cook has managed to make sympathetic, even as readers know Jill is suspected of murdering her best friend. The stakes feel real, and important, and the mystery immense.I'm someone who likes my mysteries completely tied up in a nice bow at the end of a book. Without giving away any spoilers, it was hard for me when there was ambiguity in this story, even though it made sense in the context of the novel.This was a great first read for 2017. I'd be wanting to read this since last year, and it did not disappoint.
    • 4/5
      I liked this book. It has a bit of everything -- Mystery, romance, intrigue, adventure, and the ending does leaving guessing. I wasn't a huge fan of the main character, I found her kind of annoying. But the secondary characters are spot on. I feel parts were a bit cliche for a thriller, but I would recommend this book. 4 out of 5 stars.
    • 2/5
      Really a 2 1/2 - just didn't build to a satisfying conclusion at all.
    • 4/5
      Two eighteen year old girls who are life long friends, Jill and Simone go on an educational trip of a lifetime to Italy but only Jill comes back alive. What really happened in Italy is the plot of this novel. The book is epistolary. Jill's story unfolds in the hospital in the US as she recovers from the injuries sustained in the car wreck that killed her best friend Simone. As she tries to piece together what happened her recollections are interspersed with letters, blog posts, police interviews and internet postings that offers an outside perspective on the girls relationship. The reader gets the feeling that Jill's story cannot be trusted, in part because she suffers from amnesia, but the epistolary parts hint at the darker interactions that Jill and Simone shared.At first I thought that this book was going to be a retelling of the Amanda Knox case, probably the most famous case of an American being connected to a murder in Italy. Although there were a few minor parallels between this story and Amanda Knox's real life case (for instance both the real Amanda and the fictional Jill traveled to Perugia Italy) the stories were otherwise dramatically different. This story focused on the intense relationship teenage girls can develop with one another and how the pressure placed on them can lead to some undesired outcomes. I highly enjoyed this mystery/ thriller.
    • 4/5
      Jill Charron wakes up in a hospital bed somewhere in Italy where she has been on a school trip. She had no recollection of anything that had transpired. She finds out that she was in a severe car accident and the police think that she was at fault. As the police question her over a long period of time she slowly regains her memory about the truth of what happened that fateful night. The publisher recommends for ages 14 and up and that is appropriate as there are both drug and sex references. The book is well written and think that the target audience will find it captivating.
    • 4/5
      Jill wakes up in the hospital to find out that she has been in a terrible car crash in Italy while on a school trip she doesn't remember, and that she is under suspicion of having killed her best friend Simone. The book plot is revealed through a series of interviews, emails, blog posts and typical narration. Well I found it a bit slow in spots I did enjoy the twists.
    • 4/5
      Ripped from the headlines, this is the story of 18-year-old Jill who finds herself in an American hospital after a horrific car accident in Italy, one where her best friend Simone died. The real issue is that Jill can’t remember any of the events leading up to, during or after the accident. While many are ready to prosecute her for murder, there are lots of unanswered questions the lend doubt. Jill is convinced however, that she would never hurt her best friend. However, was Simone such a best friend? The end will make you wonder and think long and hard about who you can really trust.
    • 4/5
      Received from Goodreads FirstReads and HMH Books for Young Readers in exchange for an completely unbiased review.
      Also posted on Silk & Serif
      With Malice was one of those books that catches your interest from the first page and takes you for a ride through a story about coming of age, self-identity and the tricky nature of memory. The narrative is written in the voice of Jill, a girl who cannot remember anything from the six weeks before her car accident that killed her best friend. We follow Jill as she remembers bits and pieces of that fateful summer abroad and follows a bread trail of legal evidence that paints Jill as her best friend’s killer. Did Jill kill Simone, or did her best friend try to kill Jill? Or was it just an accident?

      On the one hand, the cover of With Malice is GORGEOUS. A tiny villa in Italy, with water colored words? I think this is easily one of my favourite covers thus far in 2016. The actual layout of the book is just as wonderful with narrative, witness interviews, e-mails and facebook posts interchanging one another. The interviews help break up the book and add a few extra plot revelations to the following chapter. The interspersed interviews also adds a little mystery to the story – is Jill capable of murder? Was their friendship really so rock solid? Was Simone really jealous of Jill? It was a masterfully written novel with some really genius methods to build paranoia and suspense in equal measures.

      The biggest issue I had while reading With Malice was that the main character of Jill was relatively unlikable. I felt like Jill was selfish and spoiled. She was more interested in her own situation rather than mourning her best friend. We see from the start that she relies on others to take care of the situation for her with money and power. Jill’s reliance on her father’s money and her personality made me dislike Jill from the first few pages – and that dislike only intensified as I continued reading.

      I have to applaud the author because the novel was beautiful and thought provoking without the need to like or relate to the main character. This is a skill so many modern authors possess.

      I loved that With Malice was largely a plot and mystery novel with thought provoking questions about the correlation between memory and truth. We never remember situations exactly as they happened and as Jill’s doctor reminds her when her memories return – sometimes our memories are shaped by others. In the end, Jill an unreliable narrator who’s understanding of the events of that summer in Italy evolve over time as evidence is brought to life, old secrets are revealed and Jill’s memories become less and less reliable until we have no inkling of the truth.

      The reason why I adored With Malice so much? I couldn’t stop reading to see what would happen next and what secret or evidence would be revealed. I loved that I was invested in the story (even if I hated the main character) and that after I’d finished With Malice I experienced a rare desire to think about the messages that were explored within the pages. The malleability of friendship, the unreliableness of memory, the darkness of power and wealth in the face of justice – these were all things I thought about after With Malice affected me deeply.

      This novel with appeal to readers of young adult, mystery and suspense novels. I would recommend this book to people looking for a heavier read that explores deep issues while simultaneously telling a decent story. With Malice is written about issues rather than the experiences of the girl-who-may-have-killed – this is a novel about humanity, power, wealth, memory and friendship.
    • 4/5
      A great summer break page turner. JIll wakes up hospitalized with a huge gap in her memory. She's forgotten her trip to Italy and the car accident that left her seriously injured and her best friend dead. Interspersed with Jill's narrative, there are blog posts, comments, transcripts from police investigations, and media reports about the accident and the subsequent murder investigation. Twists ad turns help drive this novel as readers and Jill slowly try to put together the pieces of what really happened between Jill and Simone during their fateful high school trip.
    • 4/5
      When Jill Charron finally wakes up, she has no memory of the past six weeks of her life, including the accident that put her in the hospital. But with the suggestion that the car crash may not have been an accident, Jill is desperate to reclaim her memory of those missing days in order to know the truth. But it may not be the truth she wants it to be, and knowing may be worse than forgetting. This young adult tale of friendship twists and turns, taking readers in unanticipated directions as it spins teen angst and media ultra-frenzy into an enticing mystery. Blog comments, Facebook entries, police reports, and witness statements pepper Jill’s narrative; all serve to build the tension as they reveal tiny bits of information and provide tantalizing glimpses into her slowly-returning memory. Or are they false memories, created by suggestion and the onslaught of speculative news stories and comments flooding social media? Are gossip and innuendo distorting the truth . . . and can distorted truths affect Jill’s nascent memories? Just how truthful are memories, anyway . . . and will remembering answer all the questions?With its riveting suspense and constantly-building tension, this is a fast, read-in-one-sitting story with an obvious nod to the Amanda Knox case. Characters are well-developed with authentic voices; Anna, with her no-nonsense, tell-it-like-it-is attitude is likely to become a reader favorite. The fast pace, the coming together of the puzzle, the unexpected reveals, and an unforeseen ending will all keep readers engaged until they’ve turned the final page.Highly recommended.
    • 4/5
      This book was provided to me by the publisher via NetGalley.

      This is not normally the kind of YA book I would pick up, but I'm very glad I did. At first, I was concerned that this would just be a ripped from the headlines type of book, given some similarities to a recent big news murder case in Italy. However, I was pleasantly surprised. The characters were well written and very human. The story kept me interested and the mystery was engaging. I enjoyed the ending, and felt it was very appropriate, given the tone of the rest of the story. I will definitely look for more books by this author.
    • 4/5
      This was a compulsively readable book. Almost right from the start, the reader is drawn in - wanting to know just as much as the main character, Jill. This young woman awakens in a hospital, with no memory of her recent past, no memory of the car accident that put her there...and finds she is being accused of a terrible crime...and that her best friend is dead.Having no memory, Jill makes for a most interesting of unreliable narrators. It is not as if she is hiding information from the reader...she just simple does not have any more idea about what happened than the reader.There are several interviews with other characters, details on social media postings...several media reports...the author uses several tools to fill in some of the blanks. Still, none of the characters know what really happened. Not Jill's parents, not her other friends or schoolmates, not the police...there is just a black hole where the events of the accident exist.(I do have to say that trying to read this book without thinking about the Amanda Knox trial is simply impossible. Details are different but the framework is the same.)The end was a bit disappointment. I was neither looking for nor expecting full closure - but there were a few details that were just jumped over. Regardless of what the reader decides REALLY happened - there is a great deal of suspension of disbelief that must take place.Still - a very readable book - one I tore through in a couple of days.