A-
Genre: Romantic Suspense, Romance
This RITA® Reader Challenge 2016 review was written by Goodreads. This story was nominated for the RITA® in the Romantic Suspense category.
The summary:
Two decades after her sister’s brutal attack and murder, Meg Brogan has finally found happiness…or so it appears. A bestselling true-crime writer, Meg has money, fame, and a wealthy fiancé. But when a television-show host presses her to tackle the one story everyone claims she cannot write—the story of her own family’s destruction—her perfect life shatters.
Determined to finally face her past, Meg returns to her hometown of Shelter Bay. Shrouded in cold, brooding fog, the close-knit coastal town harbors dark secrets and suspicious residents. One of the few people to welcome Meg back is Blake Sutton, her high-school sweetheart and the marina’s new owner. Desperate for clues, Meg digs through her family’s files. As Pacific storms brew outside, her passion for Blake reignites.
But someone doesn’t want Meg digging up the past. And that person will go to deadly lengths to prevent the writer from revealing a terrible truth.
Here is Goodreads's review:
I didn’t receive a 2016 RITA® Reader Challenge review for this book, so I’m compiling quotes from reviews online and using the grade average from Goodreads as a substitute.
This book has a 4.24 average, which I’m interpreting as an A-.
…In the Waning Light was a second chance romance between soul mates, but front and center was the riveting mystery that will keep you guessing, and on the edge! Oh, the secrets held by this little sleepy town! Meg quickly finds out just how dangerous it is to unearth them. This is the second mystery I’ve read by Ms. White, and I love how creates tension and suspense with her writing, winding up to a final, thrilling conclusion!
It wasn’t a bad read, not by any means, but it wasn’t that riveting either. I couldn’t feel the connection between the characters, so I couldn’t bring myself to care too much if they ended together or not. The mystery and the suspense were pretty good though, and I really enjoyed the atmospheric writing.
…This is the first Loreth Anne White book that I have read. It should be a good sign of the quality of book you are getting into when you see one of your favorite romantic suspense authors gushing about it too. The suspense factor was high here. While I did make some guesses that eventually lead me to the same conclusion it was still a some of the parties involved and how it had shaped their current lives kept my full attention. This is one of those books that I wish I’d have had the time to devour in one sitting.
This book was simply “okay”. The first half of the book was great. It was interesting, exciting, the characters were spot-on, the details perfect, the mystery to the whole story kept it a decent page turner. The second half of the book was boring, became very bland, and I eventually lost all interest. I solved the mystery as soon as the “murderer” was introduced (the author didn’t do a very good job at actually keeping it a “mystery”) and after that, the book was actually difficult to stay motivated to finish. I found myself forcing to continue reading it, just because the second half lost all of my interest and became a complete snooze-fest. It was very predictable in the end.
It was decent book, I just wish the mystery was better and the ending better. It was very average, not much different from your other mystery books. Nothing really made it stand out or be unique from other reads.
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