Nothing More To Tell book review

Nothing More to Tell by Karen M McManus follows Brynn who recently moved back to Sturgis after moving away four years ago, not long after her favourite teacher was murdered. Now she’s got an internship at a true crime show and is determined to find out what happened that day in the woods and where better to start than with her ex best friend Tripp Talbot, who is definitely hiding something.

I am a big Karen M McManus fan and I was highly anticipating the release of this book and it did not let me down. I really enjoyed this book, it’s not my favourite by Karen M McManus but it was still really enjoyable and I highly recommend it.

Brynn, Tripp and Ellie were all different great characters to read about. Ellie was a bit of an annoying younger sister, rather smart and a good person for Brynn to be around with her advice and the fact that she was Brynn’s younger sister who was just there for her too. I also really liked Tripp, he had so much complexity to him and you could understand why he did everything he did because of how his priorities lied. He was a contrast to Brynn in many ways and the two of them were great together, whether it was working out what was happening, as friends or whatever else they had with each other. Brynn, I liked her as a main character, it was obvious why she wanted to find out what had happened and she did keep too many of her promises but similar to some of Karen M McManus’s other female protagonists she did do some things that made sense for the plot but possibly weren’t the best actions for a character to make.

The mystery was very interesting and had me hooked but there weren’t loads of big twists that had me gasping which is a shame because I do look for some good big ones in Karen M McManus’s books. I also feel like there weren’t as many high-tension scenes in this one, almost like it was a slightly smaller mystery with slightly less danger to it but just as big consequences, it also didn’t feel like a put the post it notes together afterwards with the evidence type of mystery, the characters were very much in the throws of the danger.

Something I loved in this book was all the mentions to Karen M McManus’s previous books, tying them all together and just being little easter eggs for the fans of all her books to find. They were sprinkled throughout the book in different situations and contexts, and then just when you’d had them all there was another big one that had you all excited (or maybe that’s just me).

Even though there were some bits I didn’t enjoy so much, I did enjoy this and there were quite a few bits I really loved. 4 stars and highly recommend, I doubt Karen M McManus is going to stop being an auto-buy author anytime soon.

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