Every Silent Thing had suspense and was such a fun read I couldn't put the book down until the very end.

What a great novel!!

Synopsis:
Shy and deaf, twenty-three-year-old Claire Deveraux has worked hard to land her dream job as a foreign service officer at the U.S. Embassy in Paris. Yet her idyllic life is shattered when she finds a woman lying on the restroom floor dying from a gunshot wound.

The dying woman utters three words to Claire and conceals a thumb drive in Claire’s pocket. The items are keys to the location of proceeds from a bank robbery.

The killer, certain Claire now has sole possession of those items, must find her, recover the code words and the drive, then kill her before she can solve the puzzle and recover the money.

Book #1 in a series that offfers readers some unique main characters, a set of triplets, identical triplets, that will provide enough adventures to keep the series moving along for several more books. The three sisters, Claire, Boyd and Megan will most likely alternate their adventures to keep everything fresh and interesting. The first book in a series must introduce the characters and the community in which they will live and work. Alan Brenham has done an excellent job of making the sisters independent yet supportive of each other. Their supporting characters fit neatly into the story lines. So far, Brenham is batting 1000.

In book #1, we join Claire as she accomplishes a major goal of working in the US Embassy in Paris. This was made harder by the fact that Claire is deaf, an unusual challenge for a main character in a thriller. Claire tries to helped a wounded woman who later dies. This woman will give Claire information on the location of some very valuable stolen goods. As she becomes the target for those looking for the treasure, she and her sisters will work together to stop the thefts and save the day.

Brenham sets up the ending of the story to over arc into Book #2.

I read about 1/3 of this book before deciding not to finish it. There were several reasons for this:

-The characters seemed flat and 2D. In the beginning, I thought that they were interesting, especially with Claire Devereux, but as I read on, the quality degraded.
-The swear words were so frequent that I didn't enjoy the novel. This is just a personal reading preference, but for me, there is a such thing as too much cursing.
-The plot wasn't compelling. There were 3 storylines going on at the same time, which I found confusing. Usually, I love dual points of view, but it was not well executed in this novel

"Every Silent Thing" has potential, but it's not quite there. This is a two-star read.

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Post Date: December 4, 2023
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💎Action adventure for Texan triplets✈🗼🚅

3.5🌟 stars
I found Every Silent Thing an entertaining read with a few reservations. It set a good pace and had plenty of danger, action and excitement. Claire and her triplet siblings Boyd and Megan just fall from one dangerous situation to the next, with thugs, cartel kingpins, thieves and contract killers chasing them all over Europe after a disastrous, botched division of robbery takings in Texas and a mysterious murder in a public restroom at the Louvre Museum in Paris.

The part that just rang too fantastic and not based in reality was the part involving Claire's work at the Embassy. She's very young and a neophyte yet by story's end she's supposedly risen in the ranks to a position of authority. Just not realistic. And there was very little depth to the characters, especially their nagging adoptive mother Annika and her critically ill husband. Finally, I could not believe the rate Claire is purchasing and eating large quantities of French pastries! In fact, it's her addiction to pastries that puts her in reach of the guys chasing her more than once.

But I have to hand it to the author for not shying away from dire endings for some characters that cut close to Claire.

Thanks to BooksGoSocial and NetGalley for sharing a complimentary advance copy of the book; this is my voluntary and honest opinion.

The premise of this book is that Claire is a triplet (one sister Megan and one brother Brody), orphaned very young and brought up by a strict family. Claire is profoundly deaf, but has made a good life and is currently working for the American Embassy in Paris. Her sister Megan is different, always challenging, always rebelling.

Megan's boyfriend steals diamonds, but is killed in front of her so she takes the diamonds, but finds herself on the run as some serious criminals want them back. Meanwhile Claire has stumbled into a ladies' toilet at the airport only to find a woman dying of a gunshot wound, who whispers three words and passes on something.

There begins some serious chasing, as the cartel want Megan and the murderer wants whatever Claire was given. Its a fun roller coaster, perhaps not very believable that two sisters could get into such trouble and play off each side to try to get out of the mess. But its a good read and I enjoyed it enough to look for the sequel. Good to see a main character with a disability who doesn't make that their main attribute.

Thank you to NetGalley and Books go Social for allowing me access to the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

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Very interesting new series with a trio of unlikely personalities who are once orphaned triplets. Each one has their own issues and strengths as well as bad guys hunting them. Well done!
I requested and received an EARC from BooksGoSocial/Brenham Publishing via NetGalley. Thank you!

This book is action packed, full of danger, adventure, excitement and romance. Great beginning of a very promising series I will keep my eye on.