I’m please to say I have a review for Sea Shaken by J.M Simpson on my blog today. Thank you to Literally PR for my invitation and for the copy of the book.
All is not well in Castleby.
Her life hangs in the balance… He needs to be sure she’s dead…
Jesse Stevens lies in a coma after being pulled off a cliff by a psychopath who escaped from prison to find her.
He is in hiding, also hurt from the fall, but fuelled with rage. He needs to make sure she’s dead. If she isn’t, he’ll finish the job once and for all.
Military Intelligence Officer, Sam Jones, missing presumed dead, returns from Afghanistan after two years of brutal torture in captivity. Struggling to cope, Sam has no desire to carry on living, or return to family life, with his wife, Sophie, and son, Marcus. Sophie is desperate to help Sam recover and leans heavily on her friend and ex-forces soldier Foxy for support.
Castleby is plagued by a series of unexplained deaths among the elderly and that of a local fisherman. Inspector Steve Miller works closely with the new local GP, Kate Cooper, to try and find an explanation and they eventually uncover the sinister truth.
Intrigue, drama, suspense and a hint of romance continue in the third of the Castleby Series.
The third book in the Castleby series and my first. Even though I jumped in to the middle of a series this book reads really well as a standalone. The author gives enough information to fill in the reader so I wasn’t confused at all.
The cover to this book made me fall in love with it at first sight. I just hoped I would enjoy the story too. I don’t know why I worried really, I found I took to the main characters really quickly and the fast paced story just swept me away as it all unfolded.
This is a multi layered and quite complex plot that the author skilfully weaves the threads together of each separate strand. One which hooked me immediately with the suspense and drama that developed as the story came alive in my mind.
As I said I connected with the main characters and cared what actually happened as I got to know then more. This is a sign of a well written book and it is that. I read it over two days as I kept picking it back up to read ‘just a bit more’, when I should have been doing other things. Thats how much this book engaged me. There is certainly plenty going on to keep the reader entertained and turning those pages!
A book that was definitely an easy read with all the ingredients for a page turning and gripping read. I do recommend Sea Shaken by J.M Simpson and I shall be finding the previous books to read at some point. A new author for me and one I really enjoyed.
Buy Link https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09YDB7996/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_QEX6QC0ZCFPC27H6JKMV
Author Bio
Originally born in Essex, Jo was predominantly raised in the West Country, enjoying a childhood in Devon and Cornwall, never far from a rugged coastline, sandy beach, or harbour.
Jo currently lives in Kent, with her two (occasionally stroppy) teenage daughters, her extremely long suffering husband and her two writing partners Max (who features as Brock in the series) and Merlin, both rescue Border Collie’s.
Jo’s debut set of novels are the Castleby series, set in a coastal community and largely inspired by the plethora of time spent in and around the UK’s coastline, and the never ending visits to RNLI shops that her children insisted on with a regularity. The series seemed a natural progression and the fictional seaside town of Castleby grew with new people and new plotlines.
The first debut novel in the Castleby series was SEA STATE, followed by the second in the series, Sea Change.
Jo is planning a new series set in the Scottish highlands, the first of which will hopefully be published in 2023, as well as a summer thriller for 2023 and a few standalone novels.
In what little spare time Jo has, she spends writing, walking by the ocean, walking the dogs, being an armchair movie critic, and drinking copious amounts of wine in her most favourite pub with friends.
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