Curious Minds
by Janet Evanovich, Phoef Sutton
Series: Knight and Moon #1
Series Rating:
on August 16, 2016
Pages: 322
Format: Hardcover
Janet Evanovich, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum series, teams up with Emmy-winning writer Phoef Sutton for a brand-new series of thrillers featuring the invincible and incompatible pairing of Knight and Moon.
Emerson Knight is introverted, eccentric, and has little to no sense of social etiquette. Good thing he’s also brilliant, rich, and (some people might say) handsome, or he’d probably be homeless. Riley Moon has just graduated from Harvard Business and Harvard Law. Her aggressive Texas spitfire attitude has helped her land her dream job as a junior analyst with mega-bank Blane-Grunwald. At least Riley Moon thought it was her dream job, until she is given her first assignment: babysitting Emerson Knight.
What starts off as an inquiry about missing bank funds in the Knight account leads to inquiries about a missing man, missing gold, and a life-and-death race across the country. Through the streets of Washington, D.C., and down into the underground vault of the Federal Reserve in New York City, an evil plan is exposed. A plan so sinister that only a megalomaniac could think it up, and only the unlikely duo of the irrepressibly charming Emerson Knight and the tenacious Riley Moon can stop it.
Another great book by Mrs. Evanovich and Mr. Sutton.
It took a while for me to get into Curious Minds, and whenever my cat would allow me time to read but once I did, it’s a wonderful book. Both writers had shown brightly about how they write in this book and it worked just as good as with another book they both co-wrote together. Curious Minds is a good start to a new series for Mrs. Evanovich and Mr. Sutton.
Riley Moon
The main character, or protagonist, in my mind, is Miss Riley Moon because she is one of the most followed characters in the story. What I like about Riley Moon is that she is different than of Stephanie Plum, Kate O’Hare, and kind of like Elizabeth “Lizzy” Tucker. The reason I think that is because Stephanie Plum and Kate O’Hare both work in law enforcement in a way while Lizzy Tucker isn’t and stumbled into helping the male lead in her book. Just like Riley did in this series. What I also liked about Riley in this story is that she doesn’t follow the rules very well or cares about harming Emerson’s feelings. I also like how she isn’t afraid to use a gun along with her wonderful phrases. What I don’t like about her is that she is all about her career at the bank.
Emerson Knight
The next character is Emerson Knight. Emerson is a tall person that is very attractive. He’s also very rich. What I like about Emerson is that everyone has said that he is just as eccentric as the other males in his family but I didn’t really see it. He doesn’t let what everyone thinks about him or his family affect him as a person. What I also like about him is that yeah, he is this rich guy, but he doesn’t seem like it. Well maybe if you see him get out of one of his very expensive cars (ones that he inherited from his dad.) Emerson to know what everyone is expecting it from him and doesn’t think anything about it when he does it. What I didn’t like about him is that he seems to zone in and out when he is mediating. Don’t you think that is odd? Especially, when he claims to be talking to some guy. Emerson has the fascination with the gold even though he doesn’t want anyone to know that. Overall Emerson is a pretty great character, which is seen at his best when paired with Riley Moon.
Gunter Grunwald
The last secondary character is Gunter Grunwald. What I like about Gunter is that he is in the middle ground about who he is and who he wants to be. Also, Gunter is that he is the youngest of his family and isn’t trying to be anything big. He just wants to be himself. Which must be hard with all of his dad and brothers’ big achievements. Always being compared to them probably didn’t make him want to succeed more than them. What I didn’t like about him is that he didn’t really stand up for himself. He lets his brothers kind of walk over him. Then there is Werner his boss, who treats him terribly.
Curious Minds by Janet Evanovich and Phoef Sutton is another great book by them. It kept me guessing and in the story, most of the time. I’m giving this book a four stars rating. I will also recommend this book to anyone that likes Janet Evanovich and to anyone that likes Phoef Sutton.
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About Janet Evanovich
Janet’s Bio (quoted from her website)
When I was a kid I spent a lot of time in LaLa Land. La la Land is like an out-of-body experience –while your mouth is eating lunch your mind is conversing with Captain Kirk. Sometimes I’d pretend to sing opera. My mother would send me to the grocery store down the street, and off I’d go, caterwauling at the top of my lungs. Before the opera thing I went through a horse stage where I galloped everywhere and made holes in my Aunt Lena’s lawn with my hooves. Aunt Lena was a good egg. She understood that the realities of daily existence were lost in the shadows of my looney imagination.After graduation from South River High School, I spent four years in the Douglass College art department, honing my ability to wear torn Levis, learning to transfer cerebral excitement to primed canvas. Painting beat the heck out of digging holes in lawns, but it never felt exactly right. It was frustrating at best, excruciating at worst. My audience was too small. Communication was too obscure. I developed a rash from pigment.
Somewhere down the line I started writing stories. The first story was about the pornographic adventures of a fairy who lived in a second rate fairy forest in Pennsylvania. The second story was about …well never mind, you get the picture.
I sent my weird stories out to editors and agents and collected rejection letters in a big cardboard box. When the box was full I burned the whole damn thing, crammed myself into pantyhose and went to work for a temp agency.
Four months into my less than stellar secretarial career, I got a call from an editor offering to buy my last mailed (and heretofore forgotten) manuscript. It was a romance written for the now defunct Second Chance at Love line, and I was paid a staggering $2,000.
With my head reeling from all this money, I plunged into writing romance novels full time, saying good-by, good riddance to pantyhose and office politics. I wrote series romance for the next five years, mostly for Bantam Loveswept. It was a rewarding experience, but after twelve romance novels I ran out of sexual positions and decided to move into the mystery genre.
I spent two years retooling –drinking beer with law enforcement types, learning to shoot, practicing cussing. At the end of those years I created Stephanie Plum. I wouldn’t go so far as to say Stephanie is an autobiographical character, but I will admit to knowing where she lives.
It turns out I’m a really boring workaholic with no hobbies or special interests. My favorite exercise is shopping and my drug of choice is Cheeze Doodles.
I read comic books and I only watch happy movies. I motivate myself to write by spending my money before I make it. And when I grow up I want to be just like Grandma Mazur.
About Phoef Sutton
Phoef Sutton started as an actor and playwright in college; he was lucky enough to go to a small liberal arts college in Virginia, James Madison University, which encouraged student playwrights. Phoef was one of the only undergraduates to win the Norman Lear Award for Comedy Playwriting. After graduation, Phoef had plays produced at various regional theaters around the country, had his award winning play BURIAL CUSTOMS selected for publication by the Theatre Communications Group and was awarded a National Endowment for Arts Playwrights Fellowship.
After marrying and moving to Los Angeles, Phoef started his career at the NBC television show CHEERS. He stayed with the show for eight years, working his way up from staff writer to executive producer, winning two Emmys and a Writer’s Guild Award. A greater training ground for a writer could not be imagined. Phoef lives in South Pasadena, California with his wife Dawn and his daughters Skylar and Celia.
