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A review by marcccb
Our Little Secret by Roz Nay
4.0
3.75 stars
Seen this one around a lot so I was very excited when I received this suprise copy from Penguin Random House.
Angela is being interrogated by the police about the disappearance her ex-boyfriend's wife, Saskia. She says she doesn't know anything about her disappearance and that she is innocent. But is she? Or is she somehow involved. We go back years before when Angela and H.P first met and from there, their story is told.
I loved the chornology of this novel. It switches back from past to present very smoothly and Angela is an amazing storyteller. It's very hard not to get sucked into this novel because it is very intriguing and you want to know what happens. It seems like a love story and in some ways it is, but there is also a small mystery aspect to it because the big question is still us trying to figure out what happened to Saskia.
It did kind of go downhill at times, but I was still very interested in where the story was going. What gave this novel the .5 boost in rating was the twist at the end. Many others write their entire novel knowing that they want to put the one and only twist at the end of the novel. I feel that it worked very well for this one because if we were to find out what happened to Saksia before the end, then there would have been no point to continue reading.
The twist was so good! At first I thought it was just the one twist. But then Nay adds a few more and I found myself gasping out loud on the bus ride to work. It was very smartly written and the storytelling had to be my favourite thing about this book. Nay is a master at storytelling and creating Angela's character must not have been easy.
A job well done!
Thank you St. Martin's Press for providing me with a finished copy of this novel in exchange for my hoenst review.
Seen this one around a lot so I was very excited when I received this suprise copy from Penguin Random House.
Angela is being interrogated by the police about the disappearance her ex-boyfriend's wife, Saskia. She says she doesn't know anything about her disappearance and that she is innocent. But is she? Or is she somehow involved. We go back years before when Angela and H.P first met and from there, their story is told.
I loved the chornology of this novel. It switches back from past to present very smoothly and Angela is an amazing storyteller. It's very hard not to get sucked into this novel because it is very intriguing and you want to know what happens. It seems like a love story and in some ways it is, but there is also a small mystery aspect to it because the big question is still us trying to figure out what happened to Saskia.
It did kind of go downhill at times, but I was still very interested in where the story was going. What gave this novel the .5 boost in rating was the twist at the end. Many others write their entire novel knowing that they want to put the one and only twist at the end of the novel. I feel that it worked very well for this one because if we were to find out what happened to Saksia before the end, then there would have been no point to continue reading.
The twist was so good! At first I thought it was just the one twist. But then Nay adds a few more and I found myself gasping out loud on the bus ride to work. It was very smartly written and the storytelling had to be my favourite thing about this book. Nay is a master at storytelling and creating Angela's character must not have been easy.
A job well done!
Thank you St. Martin's Press for providing me with a finished copy of this novel in exchange for my hoenst review.