Murder Your Darlings

A Novel

De: Jenna Blum

Narrado por: Ann Marie Gideon, Stacy Gonzalez, Braden Wright, Megan Tusing

“Authors and book tours, stalkers and deadlines, horrid men and ice cold revenge . . . Murder Your Darlings will have you cracking up while you’re checking under your bed.”—Karin Slaughter, New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author

For every woman who’s ever fallen for a bad man comes a hilarious and eviscerating tale of love, loss, and deadlines from New York Times bestselling author Jenna Blum.

Known for such brilliant historical novels as Those Who Save Us and The Lost Family, A Mighty Blaze co-founder and New York Times bestselling author Jenna Blum now offers a contemporary, suspenseful novel about love, loss, and revenge in the world of books.

Simone “Sam” Vetiver is a mid-career novelist finishing a lukewarm publicity tour while facing a deadline for a new book on which she’s totally blocked. Recently divorced, Sam is worrying where her life is going when she receives glowing fan mail from stratospherically successful author William Corwyn, renowned for his female-centric novels. When William and Sam meet and his literary sympathy is as intense as their chemistry, both writers think they’ve found The One.

But as in their own novels, things between Sam and William are not what they seem. William has multiple stalkers, including a scarily persistent one named The Rabbit. He lives on a remote Maine island, where his writer life resembles The Shining. And when writers turn up dead, including from The Darlings support group William runs, Sam has to ask: Is it The Rabbit—William’s #1 Stalker? Another woman scorned? Can William be everything he seems?

Narrated by Sam, William, and The Rabbit, Murder Your Darlings is a wickedly witty look at today’s literary landscape and down-the-rabbit-hole tale of how far people will go for love.

Absolutely Brilliant

I don't typically listen to thrillers, but I loved this! Sharp and spicy, gorgeously written, with laugh-out-loud funny lines and utterly brilliant characters.

Whoa Didn’t see that coming!

Great book with an underlying cautionary tale of “ you never know” and “ be careful who you fall in love with”. Very entertaining and thought provoking, I highly recommend!

Soft core with lots of cringe

If you’re the kind of person who says cray-cray or amazeballs and you read a lot of cringy romance novels then this is the book for you. The story has potential but is so diverted by countless creepy sex scenes full of the main character making the lamest innuendo. No self respecting woman would date a man like this. He’s crude and domineering. Deeply unlikable. And I guess this is intentional but there are way more interesting ways to make a character unlikable.
I almost quit reading after an exceedingly long discussion on being “dickmatized” but I kept listening. I’ll never get those hours back.