The Truth Project by Dante Medema | AUDIO REVIEW

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Seventeen-year-old Cordelia Koenig was sure of many things going into her last year of high school. For one, she wasn’t going to stress over the senior project all her peers were dreading—she’d just use the same find-your-roots genealogy idea that her older sister used for hers. Secondly, she’d put all that time spent not worrying about the project toward getting reacquainted with former best friend and longtime crush Kodiak Jones who, conveniently, gets assigned as Cordelia’s partner.

All she has to do is mail in her DNA sample, write about her ancestry results and breeze through the rest of senior year. Done, done and done.

But when Cordelia’s GeneQuest results reveal that her father is not the man she thought he was but a stranger who lives thousands of miles away, Cordelia realizes she isn’t sure of anything anymore—not the mother who lied, the life she was born into or the girl staring back at her in the mirror.

If your life began with a lie, how can you ever be sure of what’s true?

The Truth Project by Dante Medema | AUDIO REVIEW

BOOK REVIEW

MY THOUGHTS

I’ve read some amazing novels this year, including some that were written in free verse like LONG WAY DOWN, CLAP WHEN YOU LAND. They were a great way for me to read books that combined the lyrical and the poetic in a way that spoke to me

The Truth Project was similarly unique as it was written in poems, but also in texts and emails. Which made it a quick listen, 400 pages turned into 4 hrs and 36 mins. Which meant I actually flew through the book.

And thanks to an amazing performance by the narrator, I felt EVERYTHING Cordelia went through on her way to come to grips with the results of her DNA test.

What a powerful topic. And a story that touched on all the fears, uncertainty and doubts that come with results like Cordelia’s.

The love story between Cordelia and Kodiak was a great balance to the emotional turmoil. But what I loved the most was the never wavering support she got from her family. And how they all came together and stood by each other in times of doubt.

Fantastic debut novel, strong, powerful, and thought provoking!

FOUR STARS

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The Truth Project by Dante Medema | AUDIO REVIEW