Reviews

The Night Whispers by Caroline Mitchell

sophwent's review

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

look2kell's review

mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

katelorette's review

dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.0

I really struggled with this book. I liked the idea of the paranormal feels of the book but it wasn’t explained or portrayed very well. After finishing it, I’m so confused. Don’t know if I'm just being dumb but I don’t understand why the ghost children would visit, why the eyes were removed from the bodies, and who the actual murdered was, because the person who it was revealed to be just isn’t explained well. Basically super confused and feel like I’ve wasted my time reading this book. 

coffee_booked's review

lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

ravenjones's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense

4.0

Really enjoyed this. I’ve read of a lot of crime thrillers but it’s the paranormal/horror aspects that really make it for me. Hope there’ll be more of them. Was really good to revisit all of these characters. 

As an aside, if my friend suddenly came into shitloads of money, brought our mutual friend a house and then bought me a treadmill I’d be furious. 

our_bookish_reads's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I didn't realize this was part of a series or even a book two. So once I read the book, I found that you NEED to read book one,  "The Nightmare Man", first as it contains a lot of info from book one. This is definitely not a stand-alone.
Anyway, I was very submerged in this The Night Whispers. It has great eerie atmosphere and creepy events.

lizziestewart's review

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

andreahorton's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

sarahs_bookish_life's review against another edition

5.0

This is the second book in the crime series featuring Detective Sarah Noble of which would highly recommend you read in order as a lot of what happened in the previous novel, The Midnight Man, is mentioned in this one. It’s also a brilliant book and not to be missed!

I love that quite a few of the characters from the first novel, are heavily featured in this one also. Elliot especially I was pleased to see as I haven’t stopped thinking about him from the last book so was good to be able to catch up with them and see how they were doing after the horrors of The Midnight Man.

I actually didn’t think the author would be able to top the start to this series but she has. Whilst these maybe crime thrillers, there is an element of horror to them also. Mentions of children with black eyes spooked me out and have to say it probably wasn’t the best thing to read before going to bed as couldn’t get the image of them out of my head!

The Night Whispers is a cleverly plotted story that guarantees to hook the reader from the chilling start. It’s like when you get onto one of those roller coasters where you try and prepare yourself for it picking up speed and the hair raising twists and turns that lie ahead, only for it to shoot off at full force. Wow, what a ride the author took me on! This series is turning out to be one of the most thrilling as well as chilling that I have read in this genre. One to most definitely read with the lights on!

My thanks to Embla Books and NetGalley for an advanced readers copy of this book. All opinions are my own and not biased in anyway.

clair_82's review

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0