2020 book 123

Alexandra Rowland's A Choir of Lies
The sequel to A Conspiracy of Truths focuses on the apprentice from that book, now out on his own, writing down his recent past, with frequent interjections from an angry and exasperated reader appearing in the form of footnotes. I ended up liking this a lot, though like its predecessor it was a bit slow, but that interplay of narrative voices was really the star here. That, I loved. A-.