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A review by cala_p
Vow of Silence by Melynda Price
5.0
I received an ARC of this book from Netgalley
After reading Colleen Hoover’s Verity, I realized how much I enjoyed the thriller/mystery genre. Problem is, so many are contemporary thrillers and I have to have a good amount of romance in there. When I stumbled upon this one, I was so excited because it sounded so good with everything I have been looking for in it, along with being set against an Amish background. The last Amish-set series I read was great but nowhere close to this.
Vow of Silence begins immediately with the killer stealing one of the girls. It was a fantastic way to start the book, and sent chills down my spine. It then opens with Josiah, a once-Amish man who left the community and built a life as an “Englisher”. As he is a police detective with ties to the community, they send him in to find the killer of the Amish girls. Not long after being here, he runs into his old flame, who he was forced to leave behind and allow her to get married to someone else and build a family.
Thankfully that someone else is no longer around. So as Josiah is an outsider now, and she has ties to one of the victims, she offers to help him and go to all the families’ houses with him. Having one of their own will encourage them to chat with him. Being together throws them back together.
My favorite part of this book was the slow intensity build of their romance. They’re not new to each other so we didn’t need to have a buildup of getting to know each other. Despite that, there was a lot of sadness and broken trust that needed to be gradually put back together, so nothing was rushed. And nothing was too slow. I found it to be a fantastic pace. I fell in love with both characters and cheered them on.
Additionally, figuring out who did it was so fun. The author did a great job of bringing in a lot of strange or creepy or mysterious characters who could be the killer. So there was many suspects at one time and it really boggles the mind. The author did a fantastic job of building to the truth and keeping it hidden for a long enough time.
This was a fantastic read and I am so grateful for the opportunity to read it.
After reading Colleen Hoover’s Verity, I realized how much I enjoyed the thriller/mystery genre. Problem is, so many are contemporary thrillers and I have to have a good amount of romance in there. When I stumbled upon this one, I was so excited because it sounded so good with everything I have been looking for in it, along with being set against an Amish background. The last Amish-set series I read was great but nowhere close to this.
Vow of Silence begins immediately with the killer stealing one of the girls. It was a fantastic way to start the book, and sent chills down my spine. It then opens with Josiah, a once-Amish man who left the community and built a life as an “Englisher”. As he is a police detective with ties to the community, they send him in to find the killer of the Amish girls. Not long after being here, he runs into his old flame, who he was forced to leave behind and allow her to get married to someone else and build a family.
Thankfully that someone else is no longer around. So as Josiah is an outsider now, and she has ties to one of the victims, she offers to help him and go to all the families’ houses with him. Having one of their own will encourage them to chat with him. Being together throws them back together.
My favorite part of this book was the slow intensity build of their romance. They’re not new to each other so we didn’t need to have a buildup of getting to know each other. Despite that, there was a lot of sadness and broken trust that needed to be gradually put back together, so nothing was rushed. And nothing was too slow. I found it to be a fantastic pace. I fell in love with both characters and cheered them on.
Additionally, figuring out who did it was so fun. The author did a great job of bringing in a lot of strange or creepy or mysterious characters who could be the killer. So there was many suspects at one time and it really boggles the mind. The author did a fantastic job of building to the truth and keeping it hidden for a long enough time.
This was a fantastic read and I am so grateful for the opportunity to read it.