These Toxic Things by Rachel Howzell Hall
Mickie Lambert works for Memory Bank, a company that creates digital projects that will tell stories and project holographic images of the client's favorite things. After her latest client, owner of a cluttered curio shop, commits suicide, she plans to finish the job. Maybe the dead woman's family will want the memories associated with the twelve unrelated objects she'd chosen.
It took me a while to get into this one, but once I got past the high tech gimmick involved in the memory boxes and paid more attention to the objects and their stories, I started to enjoy it more. Although I had a hunch what some things might be, and I was right, I never came close to figuring it all out. The ultimate purpose behind the box Mickie is working on is extremely creepy and unsettling.
After She Wrote Him by Sulari Gentill
Madeline is writing about Edward, who is writing about Madeline....and they're each convinced that the other is a character they created. Madeline is a mystery writer who's decided to branch away from her successful series about a maid in the early 1900s to write about Edward, a literary writer who is trying something different by writing about a mystery writer. Have I given you an idea how confusing this all is? The point of view shifts seamlessly mid scene so I was never quite sure if what I was reading was real life or the story being written. Which is the whole point of the thing. This one is a doozy of a murder mystery, unlike anything I've read before.
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