Since a crack team isn’t available, he enlists his cousin Vernon and Riley Moon. When clues start leading to a dark and sinister secret, Emerson will need to assemble a crack team for help. Finding a missing island is better than Christmas morning in the Knight household. Poof! Vanished without a trace.īoyishly charming Emerson Knight likes nothing better than solving an unsolvable mystery. The Pacific island had a mountain, beaches, a rainforest, and a volcano. Thank you to Penguin Random House Canada for an advance reading copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.Format – ebook, paperback, hardcover, audioīuddhist monk Wayan Bagus has lost his island of solitude and wants it back. I may pick up a future Stephanie Plum novel, but I think I’ll give this series a pass. I’m afraid I haven’t read a Stephanie Plum novel in a while, so apart from a vague memory that I did enjoy that series, I’m not sure how this compares and how Evanovich fans will respond to this. That being said, it was an entertaining story to read, and I think I may have enjoyed it more as a buddy comedy on TV. There are even Batman-type gadgets thrown into the mix.Ī book that follows a standard formula isn’t necessarily a bad thing for me, but this just didn’t quite work. Riley is highly educated and supposed to be brilliant and super talented, but is surprisingly naive about a lot of things, which I gather is meant to make her cute and endearing. Emerson is rude and condescending, but really does care for Riley in his way, so then sexual tension develops. Bad guys want to keep Emerson from his gold, so Emerson needs Riley’s help. I seem to remember enjoying them, and I know humour is one of the trademarks of her mysteries, but the humour in Curious Minds just fell flat for me. While the mystery aspect was interesting, it also seemed more set up for a caper type adventure for the leads than an actual puzzle to solve, which makes the characters and the humour much more important to get right.Ĭurious Minds stars the unlikely duo of Emerson Knight, an introverted, eccentric and handsome billionaire, and Riley Moon, a feisty financial analyst assigned essentially to babysit Emerson when he makes the unusual request to withdraw all his gold from the bank. I’m sure I must’ve read Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum novels before.

Curious Minds is a mystery-adventure caper featuring a pair of quirky and seemingly incompatible leads that I think may work better on the screen rather than as a book. Without charismatic actors to bring Knight and Moon to life, they just came off as trying a bit too hard to be funny but instead are being a jerk (Knight) or simply annoying (Moon).

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