LOST Twenty-five years ago, a jealous ex-boyfriend murdered Mallory Steele's mother. The Quiet Ones a book by Brandon Massey From award-winning suspense author Brandon Massey comes a thrilling new tale of buried secrets and stunning revelations. The opening scene is meant to set the stage for the book, but the fact that there is something “strange” about where the two young girls grow up is only mentioned (repeatedly) but we don’t spend any time there, so it feels a lot more like “telling” rather than “showing.” Again, the plot was interesting, but I think Krentz could have benefited from a hard edit to shape things up a bit better.Īnother little thing that I have to note because it was such a weird thing for me to keep reading: every character’s first and last name is used an inordinate amount of times they are mentioned by other characters. Rating details 704 ratings 71 reviews From award-winning suspense author Brandon Massey comes a thrilling new tale of buried secrets and stunning revelations.

Brandon is a writer of thriller fiction who has at this writing six published novels, one story collection, and has edited three anthologies. He grew up in Zion, a suburb north of Chicago. But unfortunately, The Quiet Ones wasn’t one of my favorites and I can’t really articulate why. To me he is the Jordan Peele of literature. There were a lot of neat ideas in this book, but they all felt really slapped together, and nothing was flushed out. Brandon Massey was born in Waukegan, Illinois. He’s provocative, imaginative, creative and knows how to tell a story that includes suspense, the supernatural and romance.

I found the writing to be pretty bad (around halfway is when the erotic sex scenes came in that were way too graphic for the type of genre I thought I was reading). I pride myself on always finishing a book, no matter what, but I had to skim to the end of this one once I hit the halfway point.

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