A review by kalkie
The Darkest Secret by Alex Marwood

3.0

I must admit, this was my second attempt at reading "The Darkest Secret" after previously giving up on it. This time I persevered and I'm kind of glad I did.  It took me a while to realise the timeline was jumping between past and present events, as the present events aren't dated, but the characters are the same, but once I'd untangled the characters and the style (jumping from emails to witness statements to storyline) I started to get into it and found it was quite gripping. Unfortunately I found the story tailing off somewhat from that point until it limped towards its "not very surprising" ending.

The characters are mostly unpleasant, self-centred, selfish and downright unlikable; so it's hard to find something to hold on to as the story progresses. I also figured out the "twist" at the end way before it was revealed, so there wasn't anything to really draw me in and keep me gripped to the storyline.

It was an OK read, and I may read more from Marwood, but not any time soon.


This review was originally posted on Babs' Bookshelf