A review by sienaro
The Secrets We Keep by Trisha Leaver

2.0

This book had great potential. Identical twins, one dies, the other pretends to be her when she wakes up from unconsciousness not remembering anything. I was actually excited to read it. What I found, though, was bitter disappointment. I did not like Ella, the main character, and she never committed to any of her decisions. She should have actually been Maddy or owned up and it was very annoying to me when she did neither. The other characters also fell flat as we literally knew nothing about them except Josh wears ratty clothes usually and Alex is popular. There were a lot of ways this story could have gone to be interesting –such as memory loss gained in small snippets like the Adoration of Jenna Fox– but it fell short entirely. I honestly wished that Ella would have won the Snow Ball queen at the end because winning a crown at a high school dance court would have been the least cliché moment in this book.

On the bright side, its reading level is low and it only took me an hour to finish.

2 stars out of 5.