The result is a taut, suspenseful book about abuse and power that feels personal, as if Summers ( All the Rage), like May Beth and West, can’t take one more dead or abused girl. Initially distracting, the podcast becomes an effective way to build out backstory and let myriad characters have their say. A missing girl on a journey of revenge and a Serial like podcast following the clues she's left behind. The resulting true-crime podcast alternates with Sadie’s first-person narration from the road, West’s knowledge usually lagging behind what readers know from traveling with the driven, grieving Sadie. An innovative audiobook production featuring more than thirty voices, Sadie explores the depth of a sister's love poised to be the next story listeners won't be able to pause. West, initially reluctant to get involved, lets May Beth’s grief and his boss’s urging to start a podcast goad him into starting the search for Sadie. (Their mother, an addict whose boyfriends came and went, is absent.) Despite a stutter that’s gotten her teased and bullied, Sadie is brave unto recklessness, and she won’t rest until she finds the man she thinks killed her sister. Audiobook: Sadie by Courtney Summers Audiobooks Title Video Preview Sadie by Courtney Summers Synopsis A New York Times bestseller 4 Starred Reviews from Kirkus, School Library Journal, Booklist, Publishers Weekly 'Sadie : a novel for readers of any age, and a character as indelible as a scar. Sadie took off from her home in Cold Creek, Colo., when Mattie, the 13-year-old sister she practically raised, was murdered. “I can’t take another dead girl.” That’s why May Beth Foster asks radio reporter West McCray to help find 19-year-old Sadie, May Beth’s trailer park neighbor and honorary granddaughter.
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