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A review by marvelouspyt
The Secrets We Keep by Trisha Leaver
3.0
The book description is what hooked me. Twins, secrets, death...I just knew it was going to a fast-paced thriller. I thought were going to find out those deep, dark secrets but no. Maddy and Ella were the stereotypical teenaged identical twins. As always with a twin situation, the were best friends when they were kids but grew apart as teens. It always happens and I as the reader was already expecting it. The book did a great job of highlighting the differences between twins, even in some of the most clichéd ways.
The story starts with Ella at home on a weekend night finishes her art school portfolio. she gets a call from her twin sister Maddy. Maddy is at a teen party and needs a ride home. Ella, being the dutiful sister, goes to the party to pick up Maddy. When she gets there, she notices that Maddy has been crying and barefooted. They get in the car and take off but not before long, the sisters argue. Apparently there is some long time anger between the sisters that was just at the surface ready to be released. Well, the anger was released right at Ella was taking a sharp curve and runs the into the tree. Ella awakens in the hospital two days later with no idea of who she is. Her family assume that she is Maddy as they were driving Maddy's car when the accident happened. Later on, while still in the hospital she realizes the truth. Thinking the alternative would be harder for her parents, she pretends to be Maddy. Living as Maddy has shown Ella that she didn't know her sister as well as she thought and that Maddy has done a unforgivable act.
The author's writing took me through a emotional rollercoaster for sure. I was either mad or annoyed by a character and other times I wanted to cry. Reading a book when a teenager or child has died tends to have that effect on me but I was really a bag of tears at some parts. The ending, when the real twin is revealed the aftermath was so anticlimactic. Where there should have been some anger at being lied to everyone was like "oh you lied, that's no big deal". Everyone was so freaking calm and I thought that was hella weird. And I was hoping for a more emotional reactions to the reveal but no. The ending kind of fell flat into a net package that didn't seem completely realistic. However, I liked the book and the author as I have read some of her other titles.
The story starts with Ella at home on a weekend night finishes her art school portfolio. she gets a call from her twin sister Maddy. Maddy is at a teen party and needs a ride home. Ella, being the dutiful sister, goes to the party to pick up Maddy. When she gets there, she notices that Maddy has been crying and barefooted. They get in the car and take off but not before long, the sisters argue. Apparently there is some long time anger between the sisters that was just at the surface ready to be released. Well, the anger was released right at Ella was taking a sharp curve and runs the into the tree. Ella awakens in the hospital two days later with no idea of who she is. Her family assume that she is Maddy as they were driving Maddy's car when the accident happened. Later on, while still in the hospital she realizes the truth. Thinking the alternative would be harder for her parents, she pretends to be Maddy. Living as Maddy has shown Ella that she didn't know her sister as well as she thought and that Maddy has done a unforgivable act.
The author's writing took me through a emotional rollercoaster for sure. I was either mad or annoyed by a character and other times I wanted to cry. Reading a book when a teenager or child has died tends to have that effect on me but I was really a bag of tears at some parts. The ending, when the real twin is revealed the aftermath was so anticlimactic. Where there should have been some anger at being lied to everyone was like "oh you lied, that's no big deal". Everyone was so freaking calm and I thought that was hella weird. And I was hoping for a more emotional reactions to the reveal but no. The ending kind of fell flat into a net package that didn't seem completely realistic. However, I liked the book and the author as I have read some of her other titles.