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A review by lunabob
Things I'll Never Say: Stories about Our Secret Selves by Ann Angel
4.0
I finished Things I'll Never Say today. Or was it yesterday? Or maybe the day before?
I'm not sure when I finished it but I finished it. It took longer than necessary but I have been busy.
Now I will be honest. When I bought this book it was a random cover buy. I was just grabbing things off the shelves and I just happened to grab this one. I did not realize at the moment that it was a bunch of short stories. I loved it none the less. I love the cover so much because of the symbols put into it. I can't tell you how many times my mom or my grandmother found something out and in my moment of surprise I asked "How did you find out?" and most times they would respond "A little bird told me."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiKrclcBPXY
Thought of this song.
Back to the book! The secrets in this book were interesting and no two stories were alike. In fact, my favorite ones where "Cupid's Beaux" by Cynthia Leitich Smith, "Storm Clouds Fleeing From the Wind" by Zoë Marriott, and "Little Wolf and the Iron Pin" by Katy Moran. They were set in a fictional world (I like fantasy a lot even though I don't read a lot of it) and they were the most interesting in my opinion. I grew attached the the characters rather easily for stories that were only twenty to thirty pages long. There was maybe one story that I did not enjoy as much as the others which was "Lucky Buoy" by Chris Lynch. I just didn't find an interest in it and I had to go back and re-read a page more than once.
Some of these stories have some controversial topics to them. Like drugs and what not. So I would recommend this for an older group. Maybe 17+ unless you feel like you are mature enough to handle the topics properly. That may sound bad but I mean it in the nicest way. These stories do not censor and I would explain further but it is hard to do without including spoilers.
On that note, I may or may not do a review containing spoilers. I don't know many people that have read this but i would recommend it if you are looking for a quite and interesting read.
I feel like the fact that there are so many short stories is what really kept me interested because it wasn't the same thing over and over again from the same person. It was multiple people writing about secrets that may or may not be true stories.
I love secrets. I think secrets are interesting and I love to know them all but I'm not the type of person to open my mouth about them. I usually pretty good at keeping my mouth shut. The only time I have ever opened my mouth about something is when I felt like someone was in danger.
There's not much else to say about this book without leaving spoilers behind. If you have read this and you're interested in my opinion on individual stories then I will gladly post a review with spoilers on my blog.
https://lenalostinthebooks.wordpress.com/2015/07/13/things-ill-never-say-review/
I'm not sure when I finished it but I finished it. It took longer than necessary but I have been busy.
Now I will be honest. When I bought this book it was a random cover buy. I was just grabbing things off the shelves and I just happened to grab this one. I did not realize at the moment that it was a bunch of short stories. I loved it none the less. I love the cover so much because of the symbols put into it. I can't tell you how many times my mom or my grandmother found something out and in my moment of surprise I asked "How did you find out?" and most times they would respond "A little bird told me."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiKrclcBPXY
Thought of this song.
Back to the book! The secrets in this book were interesting and no two stories were alike. In fact, my favorite ones where "Cupid's Beaux" by Cynthia Leitich Smith, "Storm Clouds Fleeing From the Wind" by Zoë Marriott, and "Little Wolf and the Iron Pin" by Katy Moran. They were set in a fictional world (I like fantasy a lot even though I don't read a lot of it) and they were the most interesting in my opinion. I grew attached the the characters rather easily for stories that were only twenty to thirty pages long. There was maybe one story that I did not enjoy as much as the others which was "Lucky Buoy" by Chris Lynch. I just didn't find an interest in it and I had to go back and re-read a page more than once.
Some of these stories have some controversial topics to them. Like drugs and what not. So I would recommend this for an older group. Maybe 17+ unless you feel like you are mature enough to handle the topics properly. That may sound bad but I mean it in the nicest way. These stories do not censor and I would explain further but it is hard to do without including spoilers.
On that note, I may or may not do a review containing spoilers. I don't know many people that have read this but i would recommend it if you are looking for a quite and interesting read.
I feel like the fact that there are so many short stories is what really kept me interested because it wasn't the same thing over and over again from the same person. It was multiple people writing about secrets that may or may not be true stories.
I love secrets. I think secrets are interesting and I love to know them all but I'm not the type of person to open my mouth about them. I usually pretty good at keeping my mouth shut. The only time I have ever opened my mouth about something is when I felt like someone was in danger.
There's not much else to say about this book without leaving spoilers behind. If you have read this and you're interested in my opinion on individual stories then I will gladly post a review with spoilers on my blog.
https://lenalostinthebooks.wordpress.com/2015/07/13/things-ill-never-say-review/