Dead Silence Blog Tour Review & Giveaway

I’m so excited for Books-n-Kisses to be a part of this fabulous blog tour for the wonderful Kimberly Derting.  Thank you so much Candace at CBB Productions for hosting this great tour.  The Body Finder series is a great YA series filled with mystery, suspense and a dash of romance.  If you haven’t read this series, I suggest that you try the first book, The Body Finder, but don’t blame me if you leave all the lights on.  🙂

Author Bio:

Kimberly Derting is the author of the BODY FINDER series (HarperCollins) and THE PLEDGE trilogy (Simon & Schuster). She lives in the Seattle area, with her husband and three children, who often find the outrageous things they say either in the pages of her books or posted on Twitter or Facebook for the entire world to see.

You can visit her website at www.kimberlyderting.com.

 

 

Jennifer’s Review of Dead Silence

SERIES #: Body Finder #4

CHARACTERS: Violet Ambrose

AUTHOR:  Kimberly Derting

PUBLICATION DATE:  04/16/13

ORDER LINKS:  Amazon | B&N

BOOK SYNOPSIS: Violet thought she’d made peace with her unique ability to sense the echoes of the dead and the imprints that cling to their killers…that is, until she acquired an imprint of her own. Now she’s more determined than ever to lead a normal life.  However, the people who run the special investigative team Violet works for have no intention of letting her go.

When someone close to her becomes a suspect in a horrific murder, Violet finds herself pulled into a hunt for a vicious madman with an army of devoted followers–and quickly discovers that protecting those closest to her is far more difficult than protecting herself.

 REVIEW PROVIDED BY: Jennifer             NUMBER OF STARS: Four Stars

 REVIEW: Kimberly Derting has written a pulse-pounding story full of suspense with Dead Silence and the stakes are much higher for Violet and her special investigative team. In this installment, Violet is dealing with the recent events that have left her with an imprint of her own. I just want to say that Violet has come so far in her journey from the first novel in the series and finally seems to be coming to terms with her unusual gift.  She seems stronger, more grown-up and I was impressed by how well she was handling everything in her life. She is still in limbo in regards to her feelings toward Rafe while having a romantic relationship with her longtime boyfriend, Jay.  All this changes when she accidentally finds the bodies of a family and is thrown into a murder investigation where someone she knows becomes the prime suspect.

I really enjoyed this story and I liked how Violet was able to understand more about her gift by finding journals that belonged to her grandmother, who also had Violet’s ability. It helped to provide some answers that she had always wondered about, yet provided more questions as to what her future holds with her fellow team members of the special investigative unit.  I was also impressed by her boyfriend, Jay, because all through this series, he has been a great guy that has stood beside her and would do anything to protect her.  He doesn’t particularly care for Rafe and knows that Rafe has feelings for Violet but is able to put those emotions aside because they ultimately have to work together.  I felt sorry for Rafe throughout this book because of his unrequited romantic feelings toward Violet but I was also glad to see there could possibly be a new love entering his life soon.

 The killer in this book was absolutely creepy and I had a hard time with some of the scenes just because of the gore content.  Makes you want to double check your locks and get home before it gets dark after reading this.

 Kimberly Derting is such a talented writer and I have enjoyed every one of her books in the Body Finder series.  I have loved Violet’s transition from being just this young girl with a bizarre talent to a young woman who now wants to help people with her “gift.”  I’m hoping that there will be more books in this series because Kimberly has done a wonderful job creating these characters and I can’t wait to see what is next for Violet and her friends.