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The Secret by Giana Darling

lorenraquel1's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

kodachica90's review

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challenging emotional tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

rcrg's review against another edition

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5.0

Oh Giana is all my muddled brain can manage to say over and over. I am reminded of that poem by Scott- “O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive”. It is 3:30 am here and I just can’t stop my Sin and Elle marathon. It’s all consuming, painful, emotional and so extremely thrilling. I am in awe that you were brave enough to take this subject on and do it to perfection. Love is not always easy, right and romantic. It is often complicated, gritty and sometimes just so hard. To say I am in LOVE with this couple might be the understatement of the year. I am obsessed with this love affair. I am torn apart by the utter heartbreak and emotion. I just want Sin and Elle to come out on top and sail into the sunset. Here I go jumping into Book 3. Please give me and them a happy ending. This book is just so incredible! Xoxoxo

covertocovergirl's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

5.0

amandamcclune's review

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dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

dalilalala's review against another edition

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4.0

Las cosas se ponen interesting en esta segunda parte.
Lo disfrute más que la primera, sobretodo porque sabía hacia donde apuntaban todas las cosas que pasaban en la primera parte.
Es algo raro para mí leer cheating desde el punto se vista de la persona que lo "comete" pero creo que la autora manejo muy bien el tema y creo que de alguna forma mi cabeza entendió las razones que el libro me presento.
De cualquier forma, engañar a una pareja esta mal y en el libro los personajes son conscientes de eso y no se, asumen las consecuencias y el odio que trae eso hacia ellos así como la felicidad que ellos encuentran en el otro.

kellyyoungbl's review against another edition

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5.0

Better than the first

This series is getting better and better. The writing really is so beautiful and I'm loving the story. Highly recommend.

charlottenw1's review against another edition

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4.0

My heart broke for Elle in this book!

She deserved to be treated better and that was frustrating because she kept chasing Sin but everyone knows that the heart wants what it wants and sometimes it's a difficult journey. This was a learning curve for Elle as she's had such a sheltered love life before and now the man she basically loves throws this spanner into the mix and literally breaks her heart in the blink of an eye. The scenes that played out were angsty, heated, chaos and my emotions at times were all over the place. I wanted to continue to love Sin in the moments where I saw what they could be like together and how their future could be but then I wanted to cause him physical harm for how he was walking all over Elle. This was Elle's story and she needed all of these painful, heartbreaking moments to learn and grow. To know her worth and that's what I kept reminding myself throughout the story.

I need to know what happens next because my emotions just can't be left in this state.

pagesofandreea's review against another edition

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4.0

3,5⭐

This volume was definitely better than the first one, the action was more captivating and some times even funny to read.

Can't say much about it without spoiling it, but despite getting over their affair, I still don't like the relationship between the two sisters which was cold even before what had happened.

desiree_mcl's review against another edition

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5.0

4.5 stars.

Could not put this down.

Giselle left Mexico (and Sinclair), in the middle of the night, didn't tell him goodbye or anything, just left. And when she's back home, guess who stops by and is dating her sister, Elena, and has been for 4 years? Sinclair. Let the awkwardness begin!

I loved that Sinclair couldn't keep his eyes off Giselle and couldn't stop being drawn to her. The club scene,
Spoileryea, Sinclair totally had some guy hit the guy dancing with her.


Elena...I should probably be more on Elena's side in all this, and I was briefly, at times, but I still didn't care that she was being cheated on. Elena is not a nice woman to Giselle and in this book I don't think everything is completely revealed (books 2 and 3 are getting a little meshed in my head because I read them back to back) but Elena is so passive-aggressive and just putting people down or trying to embarrass Giselle and I just didn't give a crap that Sinclair and Giselle were bonding behind her back.

Most of the secondary characters (except Elena and a couple others) I loved to read and want more with them and I'm so glad that Cosmia has a couple books (Enthralled and Enamored)!

And this did end on a bit of a cliffhanger, which made me immediately pick up the last book in the trilogy.

Explanation on some of shelves that I put this in:
Spoiler hero-cheating: he definitely cheats on Elena (his girlfriend) physically and emotionally with Giselle. And I think he had sex Elena when he returned home from Mexico at some point because Elena mentions it but I don't know if they actually were together like that because of various things that happened or were said later but we never see them have sex. It's just mostly implied vaguely. So it may be considered cheating on Giselle because it's clear Sinclair cares about and is deeply passionate about her. I don't see it as cheating because they weren't together but that's up to the individual reader. And bdsm & dom/sub shelf: In this book I'd consider it more on the lighter side of bdsm and dom/sub. The next book in the series does delve more into that and talks/does more with it.