
Sydney Rye Mystery Box Set, Books 1-3
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Narrated by:
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Sonja Field
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Written by:
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Emily Kimelman
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My dog once took a bullet that was intended for me. A bullet that ripped through his chest, narrowly missing his heart, and exited through his shoulder blade. This left him unconscious on the floor of my home. Amazingly, this bullet did not kill him.
Ten years ago, I adopted Blue after I broke up with my boyfriend one hot, early summer night with the windows open and the neighborhood listening. The next morning I went straight to the pound in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Articles on buying your first dog tell you never to buy a dog on impulse. Going to the pound because you need something in your life that's worth holding onto is rarely, if ever, mentioned. I asked the man at the pound to show me the biggest dogs they had. He showed me some Rottweiler-German Shepherd puppies that he said would grow to be quite large. Then he showed me a six-month-old Shepherd that would get pretty big. Then he showed me Blue, the largest dog they had. He was as tall as a Great Dane, with the snout of a Collie, the markings of a Siberian husky, the ears and tail of a shepherd and the body of a wolf, with one blue eye and one brown.
Crouched in a sitting position, unable to lie down, unable to sit all the way up, he looked at me from between the bars, and I fell in love. "I'll tell you, lady, he's pretty but he's skittish. He sheds, and I mean sheds. I don't think you want this dog," the man told me. But, I knew I had to have him. He was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. I brought Blue home, and we lived together for years. He was, for most of our relationship, my only companion. But, when I first met Blue, a lifetime ago now, I had family and friends. I worked at a crappy coffeehouse. I was young and lost; I was normal.
Back then, at the beginning of this story, before I'd ever seen a corpse, before Blue saved my life, before I felt what it was like to kill someone in cold blood, I was still Joy Humbolt. I'd never even heard the name Sydney Rye.
P.S. The dog doesn't die.
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- Suzanne
- 2023-03-02
Enthralling
I don’t like mystery books but I love a badass female protagonist. Not formulaic and never a dull moment.
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- Francesca G.
- 2025-04-12
improbable
The book has a good pace and the story himself has potential. I finished the firs book and tried to endure the second, bit I had to drop it, I could not take any more.
First: There is a full chapter about this dog, the openimg is about the dog, and then woops, this dog that don't eat, don't pee and don't poo while the Joy is away, let the bed guy in the house and got shot. she did not even think about, untill someone reminds her of the dog.
second: improbable dialogs. who the hell tells you every sordid detail, every secret, everithing, even without asking. she just show up somewhere, and everyone has the urge to confess her something.
third: [spoiler allert] bad guy plan confession, old style. there is no reason in the world why the bad guy would keep Joy and the brother alive, in one apartment, just to tell them all the plan, everything he has done. And even if there was a pale reason, did she really expect him jus to go away because she say so? seriously?????
no, too many improbable things happening
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- jonah
- 2023-05-22
ableist language, narrator too slow.
i had to speed the reading up to 1.2 to tolerate the narrator at all. a lot of ableist language, and. as a result. won't finish the series.
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