What do you think?
Rate this book
Sheila Stone #1
Una chica silenciosa
With a career-ending injury, Olympic kickboxer Sheila Stone is forced back to her small hometown, where her older sister, the local sheriff, offers her a spot on the police force. Sheila, struggling to face past demons, must draw on her fighting skills when a deadly serial killer surfaces, pitting her against an opponent unlike she’s ever encountered….
With her Olympic dreams in tatters, Sheila, 28, struggles to find her place back home. She is surrounded by reminders of what could have been, stuck inside the shadow of her older the golden child, the respected sheriff. But when her sister persuades her to join the local police force, Sheila’s life and career start anew. As she hunts serial killers, Sheila notices clues that others miss and offers a perspective that no one else has. She realizes she has a talent outside of fighting, and that she has a chance to embrace a new life in Salt Lake—a life outside the ring. This is a different kind of ring, though. Sheila quickly realizes that to survive, she will need more than just her strength—she’ll need a brilliance to match that of even the most diabolical killer. Can Sheila win this match? Or will she finally lose it all?
A page-turning and harrowing suspense thriller featuring a brilliant and tortured protagonist, the SHEILA STONE series is a riveting mystery, packed with suspense, twists and turns, revelations, and driven by a breakneck pace that will keep you flipping pages late into the night.
With her Olympic dreams in tatters, Sheila, 28, struggles to find her place back home. She is surrounded by reminders of what could have been, stuck inside the shadow of her older the golden child, the respected sheriff. But when her sister persuades her to join the local police force, Sheila’s life and career start anew. As she hunts serial killers, Sheila notices clues that others miss and offers a perspective that no one else has. She realizes she has a talent outside of fighting, and that she has a chance to embrace a new life in Salt Lake—a life outside the ring. This is a different kind of ring, though. Sheila quickly realizes that to survive, she will need more than just her strength—she’ll need a brilliance to match that of even the most diabolical killer. Can Sheila win this match? Or will she finally lose it all?
A page-turning and harrowing suspense thriller featuring a brilliant and tortured protagonist, the SHEILA STONE series is a riveting mystery, packed with suspense, twists and turns, revelations, and driven by a breakneck pace that will keep you flipping pages late into the night.
215 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 21, 2023
2137 people are currently reading
2143 people want to read
About the author
Blake Pierce
717 books5,823 followersBlake Pierce is author of the bestselling RILEY PAGE mystery series, which includes seven books (and counting). Blake Pierce is also the author of the MACKENZIE WHITE mystery series, comprising four books (and counting); of the AVERY BLACK mystery series, comprising four books (and counting); and of the new KERI LOCKE mystery series.
An avid reader and lifelong fan of the mystery and thriller genres, Blake loves to hear from you, so please feel free to visit www.blakepierceauthor.com to learn more and stay in touch.
An avid reader and lifelong fan of the mystery and thriller genres, Blake loves to hear from you, so please feel free to visit www.blakepierceauthor.com to learn more and stay in touch.
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 30 of 206 reviews
July 16, 2024
Entretenido, lleno de acción y misterio
Sheila está de regreso en su pueblo sin haber logrado su meta de toda la vida. Ahora inhabilitada para luchar, se encuentra deprimida, cansada y sin rumbo. Cuando su hermana, la sheriff del pueblo, le pide que la ayude a investigar un crimen, decide aceptar. Pero está investigación le está obligando a mirar las cosas desde otro punto de vista. Será bueno para ella y su hermana? Podrán encontrar su nuevo camino?
Para ser un libro de investigación policial, la prota es extraordinariamente deprimente, egoísta, entre otras cosas. Hay momentos que quería sacudirla y que dejara tanto melodrama. Por otro lado, el misterio estuvo interesante, aunque nunca nos enteramos por qué lo hacía y cuál era el significado de las "pistas" que dejó. El final también nos dejó como guindando, como que faltará algo más, aunque sea un pequeño epílogo.
Sin embargo, fue una lectura rápida y entretenida, es seguro que volveré a leer otro libro de este autor más adelante.
Sheila está de regreso en su pueblo sin haber logrado su meta de toda la vida. Ahora inhabilitada para luchar, se encuentra deprimida, cansada y sin rumbo. Cuando su hermana, la sheriff del pueblo, le pide que la ayude a investigar un crimen, decide aceptar. Pero está investigación le está obligando a mirar las cosas desde otro punto de vista. Será bueno para ella y su hermana? Podrán encontrar su nuevo camino?
Para ser un libro de investigación policial, la prota es extraordinariamente deprimente, egoísta, entre otras cosas. Hay momentos que quería sacudirla y que dejara tanto melodrama. Por otro lado, el misterio estuvo interesante, aunque nunca nos enteramos por qué lo hacía y cuál era el significado de las "pistas" que dejó. El final también nos dejó como guindando, como que faltará algo más, aunque sea un pequeño epílogo.
Sin embargo, fue una lectura rápida y entretenida, es seguro que volveré a leer otro libro de este autor más adelante.
December 21, 2024
La novela me ha parecido una lectura mediocre y simple. Los personajes nada perfilados y la narración plana.
La investigación es muy simple y prácticamente brilla por su ausencia. Los temas en los que más ahonda el autor son el kickboxing, las secuelas de Sheila y el que Sheila se sienta inferior a su hermana Nat.
La investigación es muy simple y prácticamente brilla por su ausencia. Los temas en los que más ahonda el autor son el kickboxing, las secuelas de Sheila y el que Sheila se sienta inferior a su hermana Nat.
February 29, 2024
Sheila and Natalie are sisters both have competed in competative kick boxing, Sheila has never been able to do as well as older sister Natalie and has had a career ending head injury. Natalie is now a police officer and investigating the disappearance of two women and asks her if her sister will help out which seems a little far fetched. I found Sheila’s repeated complaints of never being as good as her sister annoying but the story did keep my interest especially at the end. The story was a bit predictable for me, the characters were not well developed.
Read
October 2, 2024Le pongo un 2 porque se lee rápido, pero la historia no merece la pena. Bueno, más que la historia, cómo está contada.
Todo atropellado, explican cosas, muchas cosas, pero como se queda todo a medias. Parece una película de Antena 3 de los sábados o domingos por la tarde; aunque esas pelis por lo menos tienen un título correcto (como "La vecina malvada" y cosas así), pero este título...quién es silenciosa? porque la prota se lía a mamporros con el primero que pilla, incluso si llevan un arma!
No sé...esta autora que no existe...quizá no da la cara porque sabe que no escribe bien, quién sabe!
Todo atropellado, explican cosas, muchas cosas, pero como se queda todo a medias. Parece una película de Antena 3 de los sábados o domingos por la tarde; aunque esas pelis por lo menos tienen un título correcto (como "La vecina malvada" y cosas así), pero este título...quién es silenciosa? porque la prota se lía a mamporros con el primero que pilla, incluso si llevan un arma!
No sé...esta autora que no existe...quizá no da la cara porque sabe que no escribe bien, quién sabe!
February 4, 2024
A four hour audio book on 1.75x speed. It was a suspense book. Started off pretty strong but got weak in the middle and even weaker in the end. I was expecting a big suspenseful ending with some action, but the build up let me down. The story line is okay at best, but the author doesn’t really go into any specifics about why the unsub is doing what is happening. I want some criminal mind stuff to learn from. It wasn’t here in this book. Plus a little cliff hanger at the end that kinda pissed me off.
December 21, 2024
Una chica silenciosa by Blake Pierce
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
Un thriller no demasiado original, pero que se lee fácil. Está escrito de forma ágil ya que no podemos hablar de calidad literaria. Los personajes son planos, y el deseo de que empaticemos con la protagonista casi nos hace aborrecerla de las veces que se nos describen sus inseguridades, poca madurez y eso sí, deseo de superación. El resto de personajes, incluido el villano, tienen aún menos profundidad. Ahora bien, me ha enganchado lo suficiente como para acabarlo. Es corto y, como he dicho, se lee sin complicaciones y , bueno, al final a todos nos gusta saber qué pasa con el malo y como lo pillan. Poco más.
Y es una pena. Sheila Stone ha sufrido una terrible lesión durante la celebración del combate en el que se jugaba el oro olímpico, que por supuesto pierde. La lesión le impedirá seguir con la disciplina deportiva que ha sido su vida hasta ahora. Atesora además unos celos irracionales pero comprensibles hacia una hermana mayor exitosa, quién es justamente la que le tiende una mano para salir del pozo. Y ese salir de pozo será participar en la investigación de un asesino de mujeres. Clichés aparte, todo ese potencial, queda en nada.
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
Un thriller no demasiado original, pero que se lee fácil. Está escrito de forma ágil ya que no podemos hablar de calidad literaria. Los personajes son planos, y el deseo de que empaticemos con la protagonista casi nos hace aborrecerla de las veces que se nos describen sus inseguridades, poca madurez y eso sí, deseo de superación. El resto de personajes, incluido el villano, tienen aún menos profundidad. Ahora bien, me ha enganchado lo suficiente como para acabarlo. Es corto y, como he dicho, se lee sin complicaciones y , bueno, al final a todos nos gusta saber qué pasa con el malo y como lo pillan. Poco más.
Y es una pena. Sheila Stone ha sufrido una terrible lesión durante la celebración del combate en el que se jugaba el oro olímpico, que por supuesto pierde. La lesión le impedirá seguir con la disciplina deportiva que ha sido su vida hasta ahora. Atesora además unos celos irracionales pero comprensibles hacia una hermana mayor exitosa, quién es justamente la que le tiende una mano para salir del pozo. Y ese salir de pozo será participar en la investigación de un asesino de mujeres. Clichés aparte, todo ese potencial, queda en nada.
February 20, 2024
A poor plodding storyline. Why would an experienced police Sherriff call on someone with absolutely no legal, criminal, or life experience except kick boxing to help in a murder enquiry?
The conclusion was pathetic.
How did a person not know that there was an extra room in their house?
Who wouldn't notice scratch marks on the floor to this 'secret' room?
Who replaced the rug over the scratch marks when you closed the door from the inside?
How did Sheila manage to to zip tie her hand together behind her back?
Those are just a few of the points that I can be bothered to list (of the many).+
The conclusion was pathetic.
How did a person not know that there was an extra room in their house?
Who wouldn't notice scratch marks on the floor to this 'secret' room?
Who replaced the rug over the scratch marks when you closed the door from the inside?
How did Sheila manage to to zip tie her hand together behind her back?
Those are just a few of the points that I can be bothered to list (of the many).+
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 12, 2024
MFC so whiny
No way a police Sheriff would invite an untrained person to help on an investigation
Bad AI reader on the audiobook
No way a police Sheriff would invite an untrained person to help on an investigation
Bad AI reader on the audiobook
September 28, 2025
This book was all over the place
Repetitive, boring, the writing style
Repetitive, boring, the writing style
April 14, 2024
שילה היא קיקבוקסרית אולימפית, שבקרב שלה באולימפיאדה, גם הפסידה וגם נפצעה בצורה כזו שמונעת ממנה להמשיך לעסוק בספורט שבו עסקה כל חייה. שילה חוזרת לעיירת הולדתה ולא יודעת איך להמשיך עם חייה. אחותה הגדולה של שילה, קיקבוקסרית אולימפית בעבר בעצמה, שגם זכתה במדליות, והשריף של העיירה בהווה, מציעה לה להצטרף אליה ולסייע בחקירה משטרתית שהיא מנהלת ומערבת את האקס של שילה. שילה מוצאת את עצמה מעורבת במרדף אחר רוצח סדרתי ובמקביל מנסה להתגבר על רגשי הנחיתות שלה מול אחותה הגדולה והמוצלחת ועל התרסקות החלום שלה להיות אלופה אולימפית. ספר מתח מהיר ומוצלח, למרות שלא עמוק במיוחד, ושילה היא אחלה דמות. לא הבנתי מה הקשר בין השם של הספר לעלילה, אבל לא נורא.
October 8, 2024
Malo. Sin más.
Trama inverosímil, personajes cliché, reacciones absurdas, un drama tonto y la parte policiaca más tonta aún.
El estilo es totalmente simplón. Da la impresión de estar escrito, al menos en parte, por una IA.
Me pensé en poner dos estrellas porque contra todo pronóstico acabé el libro: se lee fácil, incluso sin ponerle mucha atención y además es gratuito, pero ni por esas.
Un libro muy malo.
Trama inverosímil, personajes cliché, reacciones absurdas, un drama tonto y la parte policiaca más tonta aún.
El estilo es totalmente simplón. Da la impresión de estar escrito, al menos en parte, por una IA.
Me pensé en poner dos estrellas porque contra todo pronóstico acabé el libro: se lee fácil, incluso sin ponerle mucha atención y además es gratuito, pero ni por esas.
Un libro muy malo.
December 13, 2024
Silent girl
What did I just read? This book seems to be written by an inexperienced teenager. I am surprised this even turned out to be a series (there are apparently 8 books in this Shiela Stone mystery). Very little research has been done to write the story. My problems with the book:
1. Multiple instances of repeated dialogues and sentences. Brings in so much monotony to the already boring story. You feel like reading an essay of a kid rather than an author.
2. A sherif allows a civilian, with no police training or PI skills (except that the Sherif Natalie, who is also Shiela’s sister, believes that Sheila can become a detective give her keen observation skills, which by the way is nowhere evident before in the book) to partake in an active murder investigation, and NO ONE in the department says anything to it?!. I mean, what nonsense is this? Also the Sherif allows Sheila (A CIVILIAN!!!) to be in the interrogation room while her high school ex is being questioned, because her presence can throw him off guard and he will confess. I was basically shouting, really?!! How can a sherif be so stupid.
3. Sherif asking Sheila to participate in questioning her ex because she needs an unbiased opinion. I never knew you get an unbiased opinion from someone who was cheated on for someone who cheated. Come on!! Sherif Natalie could have been an Olympic gold medallist but she is also one big airhead.
4. Lines such as “She gave Sheila a sidelong look – a warning, perhaps, not to let this get personal – and leaned forward in her chair. …”. What do you expect when exes meet after years? The author herself had an idea that her storyline in some parts are ridiculous.
5. Sherif Natalie asking her colleagues who are working with her on the active investigation, to divulge details and findings related to the case in front of Sheila, who is a CIVILIAN AND NOT A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL OF ANY KIND!!! How was this woman even recruited as a sherif?
6. The writing style is very sloppy. Some of the lines seem very clichéd (I was rolling my eyes quite a few times when I was reading those lines).
7. Sheila’s constant urge of competing with Natalie on every other thing possible, be it sports or dealing with people. She even “took” the “case” to prove she was not inadequate unlike her sister who outshone in every field.
8. The ending was a fizzle. No explanation on why the perpetrator did what he did. Even if he was a psycho, the character was very weakly written. This character should have been explored or written in a better way.
This book is an absolute waste of time. Could have been written off as a short story. There are parts of the book that can be skipped (like someone called Earl describing his inventions that is nowhere necessary in the book, nor does it add any value). Will not recommend.
What did I just read? This book seems to be written by an inexperienced teenager. I am surprised this even turned out to be a series (there are apparently 8 books in this Shiela Stone mystery). Very little research has been done to write the story. My problems with the book:
1. Multiple instances of repeated dialogues and sentences. Brings in so much monotony to the already boring story. You feel like reading an essay of a kid rather than an author.
2. A sherif allows a civilian, with no police training or PI skills (except that the Sherif Natalie, who is also Shiela’s sister, believes that Sheila can become a detective give her keen observation skills, which by the way is nowhere evident before in the book) to partake in an active murder investigation, and NO ONE in the department says anything to it?!. I mean, what nonsense is this? Also the Sherif allows Sheila (A CIVILIAN!!!) to be in the interrogation room while her high school ex is being questioned, because her presence can throw him off guard and he will confess. I was basically shouting, really?!! How can a sherif be so stupid.
3. Sherif asking Sheila to participate in questioning her ex because she needs an unbiased opinion. I never knew you get an unbiased opinion from someone who was cheated on for someone who cheated. Come on!! Sherif Natalie could have been an Olympic gold medallist but she is also one big airhead.
4. Lines such as “She gave Sheila a sidelong look – a warning, perhaps, not to let this get personal – and leaned forward in her chair. …”. What do you expect when exes meet after years? The author herself had an idea that her storyline in some parts are ridiculous.
5. Sherif Natalie asking her colleagues who are working with her on the active investigation, to divulge details and findings related to the case in front of Sheila, who is a CIVILIAN AND NOT A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL OF ANY KIND!!! How was this woman even recruited as a sherif?
6. The writing style is very sloppy. Some of the lines seem very clichéd (I was rolling my eyes quite a few times when I was reading those lines).
7. Sheila’s constant urge of competing with Natalie on every other thing possible, be it sports or dealing with people. She even “took” the “case” to prove she was not inadequate unlike her sister who outshone in every field.
8. The ending was a fizzle. No explanation on why the perpetrator did what he did. Even if he was a psycho, the character was very weakly written. This character should have been explored or written in a better way.
This book is an absolute waste of time. Could have been written off as a short story. There are parts of the book that can be skipped (like someone called Earl describing his inventions that is nowhere necessary in the book, nor does it add any value). Will not recommend.
April 1, 2024
I got this book because it was free on kindle & given the poor writing I’m not surprised.
I almost DNF but forced myself to continue hoping it would get better. Unfortunately not.
The author finds it necessary to mention the main character was competed in the Olympics for kickboxing at least 3 times per chapter. The main character is also extremely unlikeable, constantly moaning about how her sister is better than her. She’s supposed to be 28, not 8!
I almost DNF but forced myself to continue hoping it would get better. Unfortunately not.
The author finds it necessary to mention the main character was competed in the Olympics for kickboxing at least 3 times per chapter. The main character is also extremely unlikeable, constantly moaning about how her sister is better than her. She’s supposed to be 28, not 8!
March 12, 2024
I read this book in Two days. If I didn't have stuff to do I would have finished it in a day. It was fast-paced...
And left you hanging for more...
And left you hanging for more...
November 22, 2024
I had to add this to my current reading list because of the FABULOUS cover! :-)
April 1, 2024
I won't be reading anymore in this series..
July 29, 2025
La trama es predecible, pero te atr
Apa el chismecito de saber lo de los asesinatos xD
Apa el chismecito de saber lo de los asesinatos xD
August 13, 2024
Certainly not the worst I've read, but not great either. The whole premise of this work is pretty convoluted; there's no way a police sheriff would bring an inexperienced civilian along on a murder/missing persons case. There were a lot of inconsistencies like that throughout the book that just didn't add up. Little details that with a few moments of research could have been fixed. For example, kickboxing is not an Olympic sport, yet the main character went to the Olympics and competed in that sport, and her older sister is the gold medalist.
The whole storyline felt like fanfiction of another story. There was a general narrative, but it was put together like a child's puzzle; just a few pieces and they easily fit together without any real challenge.
The version I read was free and I'm not sure if I would pay money for the rest of the series.
The whole storyline felt like fanfiction of another story. There was a general narrative, but it was put together like a child's puzzle; just a few pieces and they easily fit together without any real challenge.
The version I read was free and I'm not sure if I would pay money for the rest of the series.
May 9, 2025
3.5-4 stars. "Why did some people get everything they ever wanted, while others were left to pick up the pieces of their shattered dreams?"
I was expecting and hoping to be as hooked as I was when reading The Perfect Wife, but I wasn’t. While this book offers an interesting concept of blending a female kickboxer’s athletic prowess with a crime narrative in hunting down a serial killer in a small-town setting, the heavy focus on Sheila’s internal struggles, often in a self-deprecating way, as well the constant reminders of her comparing herself to her sister’s achievements and finding herself falling short, took away from the plot itself. I do, however, feel that fans of crime thrillers and strong female leads may enjoy this one more than I did.
I was expecting and hoping to be as hooked as I was when reading The Perfect Wife, but I wasn’t. While this book offers an interesting concept of blending a female kickboxer’s athletic prowess with a crime narrative in hunting down a serial killer in a small-town setting, the heavy focus on Sheila’s internal struggles, often in a self-deprecating way, as well the constant reminders of her comparing herself to her sister’s achievements and finding herself falling short, took away from the plot itself. I do, however, feel that fans of crime thrillers and strong female leads may enjoy this one more than I did.
March 7, 2024
Was not a bad book. Do not like how it spoke in 3rd person? Otherwise book was okay. Not the best but not the worse. Need to read the rest just to know what happens
June 24, 2025
First DNF of the year. Read about 15% and couldn’t get past the whiny petulance of the main character. It was annoying
January 28, 2024
Fast moving. Good read.
Started slow but picked up. Hard to put down. I don't like being tied into how many words I have to use in a review.
Started slow but picked up. Hard to put down. I don't like being tied into how many words I have to use in a review.
February 8, 2024
WOW! What An Ending !
Shiela has been trying to follow in her older sister’s foot steps but can’t quite make it. She’s a champion kickboxing fighter but her sister won at the Olympics. Shiela suffered an embarrassing loss at her champion fight AND suffered a career ending brain injury. Now she doesn’t know what to do with her life.
She goes back home to see her father and brother where her sister is sheriff of her home town. Although she always feels her sister is better than her, Natalie really doesn’t feel that way. She asks Shiela to help with a murder investigation even though Sheila has no police experience.
One of the suspects is Shiela’s old boyfriend and Natalie feels she will be a big help in reading him and his responses. While investigating the murder, another abduction takes place and now they are working fervently to solve one murder and prevent another. Shiela proves her worth by adding some pertinent invites and using her skills when necessary.
Shiela proves her worth but gets ahead of herself sometimes making the story exciting.
I found the story riveting and couldn’t put it down. I could not believe the ending. So I won’t elaborate.
There were a few editing issues but none so bad as to confuse the reader.
I Hope you enjoy this as much as I did.
Shiela has been trying to follow in her older sister’s foot steps but can’t quite make it. She’s a champion kickboxing fighter but her sister won at the Olympics. Shiela suffered an embarrassing loss at her champion fight AND suffered a career ending brain injury. Now she doesn’t know what to do with her life.
She goes back home to see her father and brother where her sister is sheriff of her home town. Although she always feels her sister is better than her, Natalie really doesn’t feel that way. She asks Shiela to help with a murder investigation even though Sheila has no police experience.
One of the suspects is Shiela’s old boyfriend and Natalie feels she will be a big help in reading him and his responses. While investigating the murder, another abduction takes place and now they are working fervently to solve one murder and prevent another. Shiela proves her worth by adding some pertinent invites and using her skills when necessary.
Shiela proves her worth but gets ahead of herself sometimes making the story exciting.
I found the story riveting and couldn’t put it down. I could not believe the ending. So I won’t elaborate.
There were a few editing issues but none so bad as to confuse the reader.
I Hope you enjoy this as much as I did.
July 21, 2025
decepcionante, a maior parte do livro foi a Sheila duvidando de si mesma e se auto depreciando. A mulher com o número de celular da Irene O TEMPO TODO e só lembrou disso no final do livro. Ela burra, os policiais burros também, é um grande livro de gente burra para todos os lados. A escrita do autor melhorou, mas sua habilidade de escrever uma história boa ainda é muito fraca.
May 26, 2024
It started off full of promise but began to flag about half way through, and it wasn't a long book! Sheila Stone was an olympic boxer but in the final received a head injury and was out of the running. She has slunk off home and is aware that in her family's eyes she is second rate to her big sister Kate who has risen to the giddy heights of local sheriff, currently trying to find a murderer of a young woman who was the girlfriend of Sheila's previous boyfriend.
It goes a bit wobbly at this point, Kate gives Sheila a sort of badge, not exactly police but allowing her to sit in on interviews, but not conduct them. The latter seemed to be discarded from the first interview with him. At this point I admit to losing interest, I presume that in America this sort of thing is usual, non-police officers allowed to sit with the police and interview suspects?
I don't think I will be reading any more of these books about Kate and her unlawful family!!
It goes a bit wobbly at this point, Kate gives Sheila a sort of badge, not exactly police but allowing her to sit in on interviews, but not conduct them. The latter seemed to be discarded from the first interview with him. At this point I admit to losing interest, I presume that in America this sort of thing is usual, non-police officers allowed to sit with the police and interview suspects?
I don't think I will be reading any more of these books about Kate and her unlawful family!!
April 8, 2024
Nonsensical plot
Our protagonist is Sheila, a competitive boxer who's on the brink of retirement because of a life threatening injury that she sustained in a recent match. In her mind, she lives in her successful sister's shadow, which the book never let's us forget, mentioning it every other sentence or so. Said sister is a Sheriff and our 1st introduction to her is when she basically manipulates Sheila into helping her with a case. Why? Because, for some strange reason, she thinks Sheila might have some important intel on the lead suspect who happens to be her ex from high school.
Now, I was hoping the story would grow on me but it didn't. It was hard to like Sheila or really any of the characters. The plot also just didn't seem believable - I gave up after Sheila's sister started using her as a lie detector.
Our protagonist is Sheila, a competitive boxer who's on the brink of retirement because of a life threatening injury that she sustained in a recent match. In her mind, she lives in her successful sister's shadow, which the book never let's us forget, mentioning it every other sentence or so. Said sister is a Sheriff and our 1st introduction to her is when she basically manipulates Sheila into helping her with a case. Why? Because, for some strange reason, she thinks Sheila might have some important intel on the lead suspect who happens to be her ex from high school.
Now, I was hoping the story would grow on me but it didn't. It was hard to like Sheila or really any of the characters. The plot also just didn't seem believable - I gave up after Sheila's sister started using her as a lie detector.
January 30, 2025
Silent Girl by Blake Pierce was the first book in the series. I accidentally listened to the sixth book in the series last month so I wanted to go back to the beginning and see if I liked this book any better. And I did. I have gotten used to the reader’s cadences and I have become good at ignoring the irritating stuff. I liked the storyline and the characters. I got to know the two sisters. Shiela, the sister who thinks she is always in her big sister’s shadow (Episode 58 of the Brady Bunch: Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!) and Natalie, the big sister who is a sheriff at the police department. It ended with a great cliffhanger which makes it easy to borrow the next book in the series from the library. I have found myself with a long commute recently so audiobooks are saving me right now!!! 3 stars ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️
May 27, 2025
All I can think is 'immature.' At first, I wanted to give a little leeway, this is the first in a series, I set the bar low. But the writing is immature, the story line is immature, the characters are immature. I was very close to just not finishing it. A cop can't just decide her sister is now her consultant. They don't have exes interview potential suspects because only they can tell if they are lying. I can keep going. The MC had a pity party because her cop sister "broke her trust" by not telling her confidential information about an active investigation? One, maybe two days, and she's already frustrated and worried they will never solve the case? Oh and severe overuse of the phrase, his/her "eyes filled with..."
(side note, the synthesized voice narrator did add some comedic relief. Did anyone check this before they put it out? The mispronunciations were hilarious)
(side note, the synthesized voice narrator did add some comedic relief. Did anyone check this before they put it out? The mispronunciations were hilarious)
September 19, 2024
A very solid three stars.
The ending honestly made me very annoyed, like in my opinion it should've ended on a cliffhanger for the next book not us waiting to see if the ambulance will arrive.
Also I would've appreciated if we got more of Finn because he low-key cute.
The plot was good, the characters were okay but something that was very annoying was how quickly Natalie and Sheila kept making up, like where is the fighting where is the Finn helping the two sisters get back together? I had this thing in my brain where Sheila is fighting Natalie for not telling her the important info and then she walks off and then Finn finds here and comforts her ☺️ but that didn't happen, it's okay though.
But the story was really good nonetheless ✨️
The ending honestly made me very annoyed, like in my opinion it should've ended on a cliffhanger for the next book not us waiting to see if the ambulance will arrive.
Also I would've appreciated if we got more of Finn because he low-key cute.
The plot was good, the characters were okay but something that was very annoying was how quickly Natalie and Sheila kept making up, like where is the fighting where is the Finn helping the two sisters get back together? I had this thing in my brain where Sheila is fighting Natalie for not telling her the important info and then she walks off and then Finn finds here and comforts her ☺️ but that didn't happen, it's okay though.
But the story was really good nonetheless ✨️
September 28, 2024
I guess the silent competition between kids for attention and praise will always be a "thing." Such as between Natalie and Sheila Stone, even though the sisters love each other.
However, author Blake Pierce took this a bit further in the sense that both these girls excelled in kickboxing on international level and at the Olympics.
But that is but the general background in a suspenseful thriller where these two sisters get to deal with an uncommonly malicious deviant serial killer.
And suddenly the reader seems too scared to take a deep breath for far too long periods whilst reading Silent Girl as the suspense keeps on building.
Thank goodness this is the sort of a series that I have no doubt will prove very popular indeed.
Enjoy
However, author Blake Pierce took this a bit further in the sense that both these girls excelled in kickboxing on international level and at the Olympics.
But that is but the general background in a suspenseful thriller where these two sisters get to deal with an uncommonly malicious deviant serial killer.
And suddenly the reader seems too scared to take a deep breath for far too long periods whilst reading Silent Girl as the suspense keeps on building.
Thank goodness this is the sort of a series that I have no doubt will prove very popular indeed.
Enjoy
Displaying 1 - 30 of 206 reviews