Review: The Listener (Virtue Falls, #0.5) by Christina Dodd (Goodreads Author)

The Listener by Christina Dodd
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The Listener by Christina Dodd’s is the prequel for Virtue Falls, the 1st novel in her Virtue Falls Series and gives us a quick introduction to the small and intriguing town of Virtue Falls on the wild coast of Washington State, founded in 1902, population 2487 and known as “a Vacation Destination on the Washington Coast and Home of the World Famous Virtue Falls Canyon”
Oceanview Café,

the town’s local diner is where most of the story takes place…..the depiction and imagery of the town is written very well. You get the feel of a place where life revolves around the locals and their lives, the gossip, the secrets and the quirky and interesting characters that are part of the place.

The story revolves around an out of the ordinary and rather interesting local character named Cornelia. She’s a bit of an oddity and the locals think she’s off the wall and batty. But then if we had to see what she does…well, we could possibly think the same thing. Her way of eating her pie with the milk is a totally quirky scene!! So, Cornelia is very intelligent, rich, married to a loser, and is a whiz on a computer…and a hacker as well. But she only hacks into the local’s emails and e-texts!!!! And one day, she’s in for a different surprise!!!

Hacking into some local’s text discovers that two people are plotting to murder someone in the town. When she informs the local sheriff..well, he’s one of the town's folk who thinks she’s weird!!

I found some of the secondary characters in the story totally fascinating!! Especially, Kateri, the town’s Coastal Guard Commander and Rainbow, the café’s waitress. Their dialogue and interaction was a total hoot!! Hopefully we get more of them in the upcoming books.

The twist at the end….who was plotting a murder revealed …was a totally unexpected surprise!!!
The whole plot kind of reminded me of one of Roald Dahl’s stories…can’t exactly remember which one..but it had something to do with a leg of lamb!!!

I really enjoyed this very short introduction to the town of Virtue Falls and its inhabitants. It certainly sparked my interest to read the series.

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