Yasmin Angoe
Author Interview - Yasmin Angoe
Author of Her Name Is Knight and Not What She Seems
About Not What She Seems:
She left home as the local pariah at twenty-two, but when a family tragedy brings her back, she must confront her tortured past―and a new danger in town that no one seems to understand but her.
After years of self-exile, Jacinda “Jac” Brodie is back in Brook Haven, South Carolina. But the small cliffside town no longer feels like home. Jac hasn’t been there since the beloved chief of police fell to his death―and all the whispers said she was to blame.
That chief was Jac’s father.
Racked with guilt, Jac left town with no plans to return. But when her granddad lands in the hospital, she rushes back to her family, bracing herself to confront the past.
Brook Haven feels different now. Wealthy newcomer Faye Arden has transformed the notorious Moor Manor into a quaint country inn. Jac’s convinced something sinister lurks beneath Faye’s perfect exterior, yet the whole town fawns over their charismatic new benefactor. And when Jac discovers one of her granddad’s prized possessions in Faye’s office, she knows she has to be right.
But as Jac continues to dig, she stumbles upon dangerous truths that hit too close to home. With not only her life but also her family’s safety on the line, Jac discovers that maybe some secrets are better left buried.
About Her Name Is Knight:
Stolen from her Ghanaian village as a child, Nena Knight has plenty of motives to kill. Now an elite assassin for a powerful business syndicate called the Tribe, she gets plenty of chances. But while on assignment in Miami, Nena ends up saving a life, not taking one. She emerges from the experience a changed woman, finally hopeful for a life beyond rage and revenge. Tasked with killing a man she’s come to respect, Nena struggles to reconcile her loyalty to the Tribe with her new purpose and to ensure that the horrors done to her village in the past are never repeated again.
Author Interview - Yasmin Angoe
Favorite place to read a book:
I'm huge on audio books now so favorite place to listen to them is when I'm cooking or driving.
Book character I’d like to be stuck in an elevator with:
2024: Lily Kitner from Peter Swanson's A Talent for Murder, The Kind Worth Saving, and The Kind Worth Killing. She's a fascinating character who you're supposed to dislike, and yet...
2021: Evelyn Hugo from The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid. I find that character fascinating and was totally enraptured when reading it.
Author Interview - Yasmin Angoe | Book Character I’d Like to be Stuck in an Elevator With
The moment I knew I wanted to become an author:
I don't know about a moment, but the time frame was middle school.
Hardback, paperback, ebook or audiobook:
Audiobook all the way. Having it read to me is very soothing and I can slip away in the story.
The last book I read:
2024: One Of Us Knows by Alyssa Cole. It's brilliantly written.
2021: These Toxic Things by Rachel Howzell Hall
Author Interview - Yasmin Angoe | The Last Book I Read
Pen & paper or computer:
Both. It depends on my mood at the moment. Pen and paper for hits of inspiration or when I want to go down a deep creative hole. Computer when I want to get a bunch of words down fast
If I weren’t an author, I’d be a:
I'd continue to work in education in some capacity.
Favorite decade in fashion history:
I like the fashion today. But I also really love the fashion of the 50's and 60's. There's just something about those dresses the women wore.
Place I’d most like to travel:
All of Europe and Dubai. I'd go anywhere to be honest because I like to see everything.
My signature drink:
A chocolate caramel milkshake. Don't judge me.
Favorite artist:
I don't know that I have one.
Number one on my bucket list:
To travel through Europe.
Author Interview - Yasmin Angoe
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