Ohio

Genre: Contemporary / Mystery

Book Type: Audio

Author: Stephen Marley

Narrator: Caitlin Davies, Jayme Mattler, Joy Osmanski, Jonathan Todd Ross, Corey Brill & Gibson Frazier

Pages / Length: 512 pages / 16 hours and 11 minutes

Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition (June 4, 2019) / Simon & Schuster Audio

Book Description:

One sweltering night in 2013, four former high school classmates converge on their hometown in northeastern Ohio.

There’s Bill Ashcraft, a passionate, drug-abusing young activist whose flailing ambitions have taken him from Cambodia to Zuccotti Park to post-BP New Orleans, and now back home with a mysterious package strapped to the undercarriage of his truck; Stacey Moore, a doctoral candidate reluctantly confronting her family and the mother of her best friend and first love, whose disappearance spurs the mystery at the heart of the novel; Dan Eaton, a shy veteran of three tours in Iraq, home for a dinner date with the high school sweetheart he’s tried desperately to forget; and the beautiful, fragile Tina Ross, whose rendezvous with the washed-up captain of the football team triggers the novel’s shocking climax.

Set over the course of a single evening,Ohio toggles between the perspectives of these unforgettable characters as they unearth dark secrets, revisit old regrets and uncover—and compound—bitter betrayals. Before the evening is through, these narratives converge masterfully to reveal a mystery so dark and shocking it will take your breath away.

Thoughts:

🎧 Audio 🎧

This book took me FOREVER to get through. It had a lot of potential for me, and listening to the audio may be the only reason I finished this book.

This was about a groups of high school “friends” and how their lives intersect in high school and in the years following. While this book was full of lies, friendships, heartbreak, youth, mistakes, war, politics, drugs, sex and death, it was about 100 pages too long and was a bit confusing at times.

I hate posting reviews like this, but this one just didn’t do it for me.

Rating: ⭐️⭐️

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