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Promise Not to Tell
by Jennifer McMahon
This was a quick read for me but a good story. The author has a great sense of writing and character formation and, even though it was a shorter book, it gave the right amount of detail to really get a great image of the settings where everything takes place. There were a good number of characters to keep track of but I never had difficulty doing so. There are also so many books out there that keep using the different timeline mechanism and this book does a great job at making it a smooth transition and making sure there was an actual reason to do so.
The negatives I found in the book was that the ending was a bit more supernatural than I had hoped for. I like when books lead you to think there are otherworldly figures in play but then every occurrence turns out to have humanistic reasoning behind them. There were also a few (minor) gray areas that you seem to not get full explanations for but, at the end of the day, they don't necessarily affect the outcome, they just create more of a "Hmmm...what happened there?" notion.
All in all, as not a ton of time had to be invested in this one, I found it really good and interesting. I almost wish it was made to be apart of a series instead of a standalone because the characters were quite different than most that I read these days. I will be keeping an eye on this author and would recommend this one to anyone in search of an quick and good read.
The negatives I found in the book was that the ending was a bit more supernatural than I had hoped for. I like when books lead you to think there are otherworldly figures in play but then every occurrence turns out to have humanistic reasoning behind them. There were also a few (minor) gray areas that you seem to not get full explanations for but, at the end of the day, they don't necessarily affect the outcome, they just create more of a "Hmmm...what happened there?" notion.
All in all, as not a ton of time had to be invested in this one, I found it really good and interesting. I almost wish it was made to be apart of a series instead of a standalone because the characters were quite different than most that I read these days. I will be keeping an eye on this author and would recommend this one to anyone in search of an quick and good read.