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A review by sde
Four Secrets by Margaret Willey
4.0
Face-paced and clever book told from the point of view of 4 people - three teens in juvie for the same crime and their social worker. Each teen and the teen they perpetrated the crime against all have a secret. Each narrator tells the story in a different way, including a fantasy/fictionalized version and through drawings.
The story was slightly creepy in tone, and I didn't quite get all the points of the story. What exactly were the teens trying to do when they "kidnapped" the fourth teen? What did the boys do to Renata that she couldn't at least somewhat be protected? (In our school a kid who was getting that kind of treatment from others would be allowed to pass through the halls earlier than others or go to the school social worker's office whenever she needed a safe haven.) What was so horrible about Katie's secret if her mother had told it to townspeople before?
Despite these minor plot deficiencies, the book was thoroughly entertaining and the characters were interesting, even if their secrets weren't especially so.
The story was slightly creepy in tone, and I didn't quite get all the points of the story. What exactly were the teens trying to do when they "kidnapped" the fourth teen? What did the boys do to Renata that she couldn't at least somewhat be protected? (In our school a kid who was getting that kind of treatment from others would be allowed to pass through the halls earlier than others or go to the school social worker's office whenever she needed a safe haven.) What was so horrible about Katie's secret if her mother had told it to townspeople before?
Despite these minor plot deficiencies, the book was thoroughly entertaining and the characters were interesting, even if their secrets weren't especially so.