Review – The Stars Shine Bright

I was pleasantly surprised by The Stars Shine Bright and how much I liked it. This is the first book I’ve read by Sibella Giorello, so I didn’t know whether or not I’d like it and if my not having read the earlier “Raleigh Harmon” novels would affect my enjoyment of this book. For the most part, I don’t think it did. There were a few things that I think if I would have read the earlier books I wouldn’t have found as confusing, but mostly things were explained very well.

The characters were nice and I particularly liked Jack. The story was good throughout with a little suspense sprinkled throughout – more so towards the end. The Stars Shine Bright did, at times, seem a little long – I don’t know how to explain this well, but sometimes it seemed like the story should be almost done, but there were still a lot of pages left. I will say, though, I don’t think I was ever bored while reading this book, but it wouldn’t have been hard to put down either (until the end, then it was great).

I liked how the main character, Raleigh, was working undercover – it was interesting to read and neat to see some of the things she did (especially regarding the lie detector test).

Overall, The Stars Shine Bright was a good book that I enjoyed reading. I hope there will be another book in this series because the ending didn’t seem finished and I’d like to see what happens next in Raleigh’s life.