yetanothersusan 's review for:

Our Little Secret by Lisa Jackson

2.5

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This feels more like a cautionary tale than a suspense/thriller. The only character I liked was Shep. Now most of the times I can still enjoy a book with unlikeable characters, but there has to be something about them that I can connect with. At first I thought that maybe I needed to get to know Brooke more before she started the affair, but quickly came to realize that wasn't going to help me worry about her and her plight. (And, side note, that woman needs to never ever drive again!) The pacing and space given to different parts of the book also made this a rough read for me. So much time was spent in the first part of the book. It was too much. And then the second part skips ahead a few years without giving the reader any time to feel like the characters had a sense of normalcy before things went haywire again. And the second part needed a lot more time. It concluded way too fast. This was just a sad group of people who pretty much got what they deserved. Well, maybe not Marilee and Shep. They deserved better. So did the reader.

Thank you to NetGalley and Kensington Publishing for a copy of the book. This review is my own opinion.