New Author Obsession: K.L Slater @KimLSlater @bookouture

New name, new image, new author love!  Have you ever come across K.L Slater before? I hadn’t up until maybe 6 months ago, now I’m completely obsessed if I’m honest.  I’ve actually read/listened to all of her books to date, and eagerly awaiting her newest to be released, “Little Whispers”.

Her most recent that I finished was “The Apartment”, I listened to it on audiobook, and it was just fantastic. The commute to and from work was fantastic and I never wanted to leave the car, LOL.  Here’s the list of her titles, and my ratings. If you haven’t read any K.L Slater yet then I urge you to give her a try if you like suspenseful thrillers!

  • BlinkWhat if the person you love most in the world was in terrible danger Screen Shot 2020-04-10 at 5.52.52 pmbecause of you?
    Three years ago, Toni’s five-year-old daughter Evie disappeared after leaving
    school. The police have never been able to find her. There were no witnesses, no CCTV, no trace.
    But Toni believes her daughter is alive. And as she begins to silently piece together her memories, the full story of the past begins to reveal itself, and a devastating truth.
    Toni’s mind is trapped in a world of silence, her only chance to save herself is to manage the impossible. She must find a way to make herself heard. She must find her daughter.

Rating:  4 star rating

  •  LiarHow far would you go to protect your family?
    Single dad Ben is doing his best to raise his children alone, with the help of his Screen Shot 2020-04-10 at 6.12.55 pmdevoted mother Judi. Life isn’t easy, but Judi’s family means everything to her and together, they manage.
    Then Ben meets Amber. Everyone thinks this is a perfect match for Ben but Judi isn’t sure … there’s just something about Amber that doesn’t add up.
    Ben can’t see why his mother dislikes his new girlfriend. And Amber doesn’t want Judi anywhere near her new family. Amber just wants Ben and the children.
    The further Judi delves into Amber’s personal life, the closer she gets to shocking secrets that could change everything. And Judi must make a decision that could lead to the most disastrous consequences.

Rating; 5 star rating

  • Safe With MeAnna lives a solitary existence, taking solace in order and routine. Screen Shot 2020-04-11 at 5.34.39 pmHer only friend is the lonely old lady next door. She doesn’t like to let people get too close – she knows how much damage they can do.
    Then one ordinary day Anna witnesses a devastating road accident and recognises the driver as Carla, the woman who ruined her life all those years ago. Now it’s Anna’s chance to set things straight but her revenge needs to be executed carefully …
    First she needs to get to know Liam, the man injured in the accident. She needs to follow the police investigation. She needs to watch Carla from the shadows…
    But as Anna’s obsession with Carla escalates, her own secrets start to unravel. Is Carla really dangerous or does Anna need to worry about someone far closer to home?

Rating: 4 star rating

 

  • The MistakeYou think you know the truth about the people you love.
    But one discovery can change everything… Screen Shot 2020-04-11 at 5.40.54 pm
    Eight-year-old Billy goes missing one day, out flying his kite with his sister Rose. Two days later, he is found dead.
    Sixteen years on, Rose still blames herself for Billy’s death. How could she have failed to protect her little brother?
    Rose has never fully recovered from the trauma, and one of the few people she trusts is her neighbour Ronnie, who she has known all her life. But one day Ronnie falls ill, and Rose goes next door to help him… and what she finds in his attic room turns her world upside down.
    Rose thought she knew the truth about what happened to Billy. She thought she knew her neighbour. Now the only thing she knows is that she is in danger…

Rating: 4 star rating

 

  • The Silent One This morning, I was packing up lunches, ironing, putting on the laundry I should have done last night. Now my precious daughter is accused of murder. Screen Shot 2020-04-11 at 5.43.10 pm
    When ten-year-old cousins Maddy and Brianna are arrested for a terrible crime, Maddy’s mother Juliet cannot believe it. How could her bright, joyful daughter be capable of such a thing?
    As the small village community recoils in horror, the pressure of the tragedy blows Juliet and her sister’s lives apart. And things get even worse when their daughters retreat into a self-imposed silence. Can anyone reach Maddy and discover the truth before her fate is sealed?
    Juliet is crushed. Nothing will ever be the same for her darling girl. But she knows that to find out what really happened that day, she and her sister must unlock the secrets of their own terrible past, a past they swore never to speak about again

Rating:   5 star rating

 

  • Finding GraceThis morning, my daughter sat right here, munching her breakfast, too excited to finish it. Now, she is missing. Screen Shot 2020-04-11 at 5.45.23 pm
    The day after her ninth birthday, Lucie and Blake Sullivan agree, for the very first time, to let their daughter, Grace, make the four-minute walk back home alone from a friend’s house just down the street.
    They joke with friends about hiding behind bushes to ensure she is safe. But the joke turns sour when Grace does not appear.
    Despite the best efforts of the police and local community, Grace seems to have vanished into thin air. With hope fading fast, Lucie knows she can rely on her husband to support her through such dark times. That is until the day she makes a shocking discovery, hidden in Blake’s desk, and suddenly she begins to doubt everything she knew about the man she married.
    But Lucie harbours a terrible secret of her own. One that she has never shared with anyone, even Blake …
    And as the search for Grace reaches fever pitch, Lucie receives a terrifying message. If she is ever to see Grace again, Lucie has no choice but to face the past she tried hard to bury forever. And she must do it alone.

Rating:   4 star rating

 

  • The Secret You turn your back for a minute. And now your son is in terrible danger …Screen Shot 2020-04-11 at 5.48.04 pm
    Louise is struggling to cope.  As a busy working mum, she often has to leave her eight-year-old son Archie at her sister Alice’s flat.
    Alice and Louise used to be close.  But there’s a lot they don’t know about each other now – like the bottle of vodka Louise hides in her handbag, Alice’s handsome new friend and the odd behaviour of her next-door neighbour.
    Archie is a curious little boy. He likes to play on his own at his auntie’s flat until one day when he sees something he shouldn’t. Now he has a secret of his own.  One he can’t tell his mum. One that could put him and his family in terrible danger.

Rating:   4 star rating

 

  • The VisitorEveryone has a secret in their past.
    Everyone pretends to be something they’re not.
    But someone is always watching… and that someone is closer than you think.

    Holly returns to her home town after some time away – she has been throughScreen Shot 2020-04-11 at 5.49.48 pm something terrible and now she needs a safe haven in which to recover, and to plan the rest of her life. She finds a room in a quiet and leafy suburban street, in the home of Cora Barrett.
    David lives next door to Cora Barrett and he sees everything that happens on Baker Crescent. David stays at home, and he watches: he likes to feel safe and he doesn’t like to leave the house. He wants to keep his friends and neighbours safe too. So he observes them, and he records every tiny detail of their lives, just in case the information is ever needed.
    Both lonely and vulnerable, Holly and David gradually begin to strike up a friendship. But Holly can’t shake the feeling that someone from her past might have tracked her down. And David is always watching… But uncovering the secret that could save his new friend and neighbour could be the one thing that destroys him.

Rating:   5 star rating

 

  • CloserI know my daughter better than I know myself and if there’s one thing I know for sure at this moment: it’s that Maisie is not ok.Screen Shot 2020-04-11 at 5.51.38 pm
    My ex-husband Shaun and I are still friends.
    We would do anything for our beautiful little girl, Maisie.
    But now Shaun has moved in with Joanne and suddenly, Maisie has a brand new family.
    And there’s something not quite right about it…I know Joanne isn’t everything she says she is. Yet no-one will listen.
    I need to discover what she’s hiding.
    Because if I don’t, my daughter will be in terrible danger.

Rating:   4 star rating

 

  • Single‘I keep feeling like I’m being watched – dropping the boys off at school, choosing wine at the supermarket – but when I turn around there’s nobody there…’
    When single mother Darcy’s son falls from a rope bridge at a local playground, life Screen Shot 2020-04-11 at 5.54.01 pmstands still. She clutches his small, limp body, frozen, until a pair of strong hands push her aside, and she watches as George, a local doctor, saves her son’s life.
    George is a single parent too, and with his twinkling hazel eyes, easy charm, and lack of wedding band is almost too good to be true, but coffee becomes lunch, lunch becomes dinner, and soon they can’t go an evening without seeing each other. When he invites her to move into his beautiful home with its sprawling garden for her boys, Darcy doesn’t hesitate.
    But as Darcy is settling in, she receives a bunch of flowers with a chilling message. George says they’re from an obsessed ex-girlfriend, Opal, and days later Opal turns up at Darcy’s son’s football match. She claims to have shocking information that could threaten George’s custody of his daughter.
    Darcy doesn’t know who to trust, but she’s starting to suspect that, whatever the truth, she might have put her beloved boys into terrible danger…

Rating:   5 star rating

 

  • The ApartmentThey say every cloud has a silver lining. . .
    When Freya Miller is struck by tragedy, losing her husband and her home within a short time, she is burdened with many worries. The main one being where she and her five-year old daughter, Skye, are going to live. A chance meeting with the charismatic Dr. Marsden changes all that. He offers the young mother the most Screen Shot 2020-04-11 at 5.55.58 pmamazing opportunity; an apartment at one of London’s most exclusive addresses for a fraction of the market rental cost. It’s an offer Freya simply can’t refuse. Within a couple of weeks, Freya and Skye are moving into Adder House and meeting the other welcoming residents. They very quickly feel part of the family.
    But just when Freya truly believes all her problems are history, a series of strange, unexplained occurrences begin. It leaves Freya with the unshakeable feeling that even when their apartment door is securely locked, she and her daughter are not alone. Freya thought she’d left all her troubles behind her yet she soon realizes there are problems here that are far more terrifying than before.
    For behind the doors of Adder House, everything is most definitely not as it seems.
    Old secrets refuse to stay buried and someone is determined to keep a terrible past, very much alive.

Rating:   5 star rating

 

So there’s a few there and all available via Amazon or Audible.

Have you read any? What were your thoughts?

Happy Reading/Listening

Nat

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Audiobook Review: How To Walk Away by Katherine Centre #review #Macmillan

Blurb

Margaret Jacobsen has a bright future ahead of her: a fiancé she adores, her dream job, and the promise of a picture-perfect life just around the corner. Then, suddenly, on what should have been one of the happiest days of her life, everything she worked for is taken away in one tumultuous moment.

In the hospital and forced to face the possibility that nothing will ever be the same again, Margaret must figure out how to move forward on her own terms while facing long-held family secrets, devastating heartbreak, and the idea that love might find her in the last place she would ever expect.

How to Walk Away is Katherine Center at her very best: an utterly charming, hopeful, and romantic novel that will capture reader’s hearts with every page.

 

My Thoughts

WHAT A STORY!!!

I just loved this. So much that I give it 6/5 stars! It was Uplifting, funny, quirky, sad, infuriating, comical, heartwarming, inspirational and everything else. I actually loved each character, including Miles! Everyone had their own personalities that were so special to them. Kitty’s made me laugh so much, I LOVED the scene where she and he BF walked into the dark cabin room “O.M,G”, I was gasping at that one.

I loved the scene with the Wasabi, i was on my way home from work with that one and laughed so hard the water I was drinking came out of my nose. I loved her mom’s character and how she had to overcome something from her past.

And let’s not forget Chip. My unprofessional opinion is that he is a jerk-wad. Complete donkey ass.

The narrator was magical in this, I loved her voices although sometimes her Scottish sounded European but she did the best job to date of bringing the story to life. I really didn’t want this one to end. My favourite read of the year so far.

Have you read it? What did you think?

I rated How To Walk Away;   5 pink stars

Happy reading

Nat

REVIEW: Little Darlings By Mellisa Golding #review #bookreview #littledarlings

Blurb

“Mother knows best” takes on a sinister new meaning in this unsettling thriller perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman, Grimms’ Fairy Tales, and Aimee Molloy’s The Perfect Mother.

Everyone says Lauren Tranter is exhausted, that she needs rest. And they’re right; with newborn twins, Morgan and Riley, she’s never been more tired in her life. But she knows what she saw: that night, in her hospital room, a woman tried to take her babies and replace them with her own … creatures. Yet when the police arrived, they saw no one. Everyone, from her doctor to her husband, thinks she’s imagining things.

A month passes. And one bright summer morning, the babies disappear from Lauren’s side in a park. But when they’re found, something is different about them. The infants look like Morgan and Riley—to everyone else—but to Lauren, something is off. As everyone around her celebrates their return, Lauren begins to scream, “These are not my babies!”

Determined to bring her true infant sons home, Lauren will risk the unthinkable. But if she’s wrong about what she saw, she’ll be making the biggest mistake of her life.
Compulsive, creepy, and inspired by some our darkest fairy tales, Little Darlings will have you checking—and rechecking—your own little ones. Just to be sure. Just to be safe.

 

My Thoughts

Right, I’ll be brutally honest, I was not a fan of this initially. The best word I could describe it was… weird. I wasn’t the biggest fan of the narrators voice initally, but I gave it a go and I actually ended up liking it.

The story like I said, was weird to me initially, but after about half way I was good with it. The husband was a right, twat. That whole thing with Natasha really irked me about his character and now that I think about it, I don’t think it was really tidied up properly in the end (without spoiling anything for future readers).

I though the first 4 chapters just dragggggggggged on. I can see that the author really wanted to get across how difficult pregnancy and labor is for us, and even once we’ve had the baby it hard, however I think there’s a fine line with how much and how descriptive you can before irking a reader. I’ve always found that the authors who turn that description into dialogue, get a better result because there’s more action for us to follow rather than being stuck in words.

I was a bit confused in the end was there truth in her thoughts, because what about the visit to the nursing/care home and what that woman said? Sounded legit… Ugh giving me headache thinking about it again now LOL

Have you read it? What did you think?

Happy reading

Nat

Is it time for a change?

I’ve been MIA for a little while on my blog. I was finishing up my Masters degree last year and then managed to land my dream job in the last two months of it, which in hindsight, was mad.

I ‘m currently deciding how I want to redo my library 🤔 I’ve loved the colour co-ordination but feel like a change. Although I have to admit, it’s also causing some anxiety because I’m hoping I like the change! 😂 #bookwormproblems

It’s a lot of books to move and the regret will be real if I don’t like it 😂 I’m thinking I might go by alphabetical order via author this time…

How have you got tour library?

Happy reading

Nat ⭐️

AUDIBOOK REVIEW: The Night Visitors by Carol Goodman #audiobook #audiobookreview @HarperAudio

Blurb

ALICE gets off a bus in the middle of a snowstorm in Delphi, NY. She is fleeing an abusive relationship and desperate to protect…

OREN, ten years old, a major Star Wars fan and wise beyond his years. Though Alice is wary, Oren bonds nearly instantly with…

MATTIE, a social worker in her fifties who lives in an enormous run-down house in the middle of the woods. Mattie lives alone and is always available, and so she is the person the hotline always calls when they need a late-night pickup. And although according to protocol Mattie should take Alice and Oren to a local shelter, instead she brings them home for the night. She has plenty of room, she says. What she doesn’t say is that Oren reminds her of her little brother, who died thirty years ago at the age of ten.

But Mattie isn’t the only one withholding elements of the truth. Alice is keeping her own secrets. And as the snowstorm worsens around them, each woman’s past will prove itself unburied, stirring up threats both within and without.

My Thoughts

So I’ve been a little MIA these last 2-3 months because I’ve been in my final stages of my Masters, and I started a new job in a prison. There’s been little time to read. To when i realised that I’d be able to listen to audiobook instead on my 2 hour daily commute I dug in!

With an audiobook it’s SO important to have a good narrator. Excellent, really. I generally do a sample test before i buy/borrow and if the voice doesn’t suit me then I’ll save that book to read myself. The narrator on this one, for me, was perfect. I LOVE when they do different voices for different characters, even if it’s only minor. Gives it a “movie” feel.  I found that with the sound of the voice, and the pacing of the flow there were times in this book that I was gripping the wheel so hard I had white knuckles!

The story itself was quite riveting.  I really enjoyed Mattie’s story, she was very identifiable to me and I also loved her personality.  There were a few really great spots that had me gasping “WHAT!” “No-Way”, there was a twist or two, and there was afew evening on the way home I considered driving around the block so I could listen a little more.

My only complaints with the story was Alice. I didn’t mesh well with in in the beginning, but she did grow on me by the end.

If you haven’t read/listened to this, then I recommend you giving it a go. And if you have, what did think?

I rated The Night Visitors: 4/5 stars

Happy Reading

Nat

Review: The Forever Gift by Brooke Harris #review #bookreview

Blurb

My hands are shaking as my fingers curl around the small, neatly wrapped box. There’s a tag dangling front he centre of the red bow which says Love from Kayla in her beautiful, swirly handwriting. I read over the three words countless times, tracing the letters with my fingertip. How is this possible? Heather’s beloved daughter, Kayla, is her world. She is fifteen, a brilliant basketball player and a fierce friend. Heather and Kayla have always has a special relationship. For so many years it was just the two of them, watching Friends, baking cupcakes and laughing together. But now Kayla knows her time is short, and she wants to give something back to the mother she loves more than anyone else in the world. A gift that will change Heather’s life. With just a handful of days left, Kayla will need help from everyone around her to make this last surprise happen. Along the way, the people whose lives have been touched by Kayla’s light will be changed by her loss, and by her plan for Heather. And as Heather’s whole world threatens to fall apart, could Kayla’s forever gift be the key to piecing her life back together?

My Thoughts

Overall, I enjoyed this story. It was easy to read, not complicated, and most of the characters were likeable. Was it as dramatic as the blurb reads? I don’t think so. The plan that Kayla comes up with for her mother, was only introduced near the end. It was a really nice idea though. It was a bit of a tear jerker, for me anyway. You can only imagine how you would feel if your child died from illness. If you have children, that will be at the back of your mind when reading this one. I cried at the funeral, that was a great scene.

I did not, however, like Charlotte’s character. I thought she was incredibly unreasonable at times with her husband, who was in the process of loosing a child. I actually felt very angry with her, that she was choosing that time to behave, at times, so childish. I am a stepparent, and sometimes we do have to “suck it up” the the mental and physical well-being of little people. Charlottes character just didn’t sit well with me and I fought to groan many times she was in it.

Apart for that one issue, like I said, it was a lovely book to read and I recommend you give it a go and let me know what you thought.

I rated The Forever Gift: 4/5 starts

Happy reading

Nat

Review: Someone Knows by Lisa Scottoline #bookreview #bookblogger

Blurb

Twenty years ago, in an upscale suburb of Philadelphia, four teenagers spent a summer as closest friends: drinking, sharing secrets, testing boundaries. When a new boy looked to join them, they decided to pull a prank on him, convincing him to play Russian roulette as an initiation into their group. They secretly planned to leave the gun unloaded–but what happened next would change each of them forever.

Now three of the four reunite for the first time since that horrible summer. The guilt–and the lingering question about who loaded the gun–drove them apart. But after one of the group apparently commits suicide with a gun, their old secrets come roaring back. One of them is going to figure out if the new suicide is what it seems, and if it connects to the events of that long-ago summer. Someone knows exactly what happened–but who? And how far will they go to keep their secrets buried?

My Thoughts

You know, I found this book hard to put down. Every turn of the page just kept you wanting to read more. I really enjoyed the differences in characters.  They each had their or personality and they were all very unique. I was so shocked when the actual shooting happened. I gasped out aloud. I. Did. Not. Expect. That. To. Happen.  I actually had to put the book down for a few seconds and come to terms with what I had just read. And that, to me, is a fantastic sign of a briliant read.

The pace was also a real winner. Another reason why you just wanted to get through it as quickly as you could. I really loved that the other did go back to the past and come back in choppy sections, but rather devoted half the book to the past, and allowed us to really get to know the characters before the incident, and the the second half of the book saved for them all grown up.  And wow, I didn’t see that end coming.

And I felt so so awful for the poor mother having lost her son, having had to endure the past regarding her relationship with her husband and what he had done. Your heart really ached for that poor little mother-son household. How unfair that any of that had to have happened.

I’m definitely a Lisa Scottoline groupie now. And I’m looking forward to my next read from her. Have you got any recommendations on what I should read of hers next?

I rated Someone Knows: 5/5 stars

Happy Reading

Nat

Review: These Hidden Things by Heather Gudenkauf #bookreview #bookblog

Blurb

When teenager Allison Glenn is sent to prison for a heinous crime, she leaves behind her reputation as Linden Falls’ golden girl forever. Her parents deny the existence of their once-perfect child. Her former friends exult her downfall. Her sister, Brynn, faces whispered rumors every day in the hallways of their small Iowa high school. It’s Brynn–shy, quiet Brynn–who carries the burden of what really happened that night. All she wants is to forget Allison and the past that haunts her. But then Allison is released to a halfway house, and is more determined than ever to speak with her estranged sister. Now their legacy of secrets is focused on one little boy. And if the truth is revealed, the consequences will be unimaginable for the adoptive mother who loves him, the girl who tried to protect him and the two sisters who hold the key to all that is hidden

My Thoughts

At first, I was confused by all the people we were introduced to with their first chapters. I thought, geeze I’m going to get everyone mixed up… But I didn’t. In fact, I was completely thrilled that everyone was included and I got to see this story from all their perspectives because it was a fantastic read! Without giving anything away, I thought the baby abandoned at the fire station was someone else’s until it was revealed, and I gasped. Yep, I got that physical response that I yearn for when I read. I cried in it. Another physical response. I berated characters. Felt like I was in the story with the characters, and finished it as quickly as I could with the workload I have at the moment.

The timeline for this was fantastic, it flowed so well, that you could definitely finish it in a setting if you didn’t have a pesky life to worry about.  Allison’s labor… WOW didn’t see that coming. BAM! And the ending with Brynn… my lips are sealed! But I think if you haven’t read this one, you’ll definitely need to give it a go because it’ll touch a couple of emotions that’ll have you sitting on the edge of your seat over.

My only complaint about this book was the cover. Had nothing to do with the story in my opinion, LOL.

I rated These Hidden Things: 5/5 stars

Happy Reading

Nat

Review: Body Count by Burl Barer #bookreview #bookblog

Blurb

He Seemed So Normal . . .

By day, Robert Lee Yates, Jr., was a respected father of five, a skilled helicopter pilot who served in Desert Storm and the National Guard, and a man no one suspected of a deadly hidden life. By night he prowled the streets where prostitutes gathered, gaining their trust before betraying them with a bullet to the head.

On August 26, 1997, the decomposed bodies of two young women were discovered in Spokane, Washington. Within months four more women were added to the mounting death toll.

In 2000, Yates pleaded guilty to thirteen murders to avoid the death penalty. But in 2001 he was convicted of two more murders and is now on death row in Washington State, waiting for the day when he will die by lethal injection.

Updated with the latest disturbing developments, award winning author Burl Barer’s real life thriller is a shocking portrait of one man’s depravity.

My Thoughts

True crime is one of my favourite genre’s to read. Maybe even my 1st preference.  I’ve always been fascinated by crimes and criminals, and I guess that’s what lead me to my career/profession.  For me, the main point I like to get from a true crime book is that the victims were people. Human beings. Capable and worthy of love, and who had people in their lives who made and impact and feel their loss. And from this book I got that. Which was respectful and oh so sad.  It’s awful that women with addiction and who prostitute are treated or are thought of an throwaways. That breaks my heart.  Everyone has a story, some aren’t as ‘rosy’ as others, but at the end of the day, we’ve all got beating hearts, we all deserve love, respect, and compassion. Yet these, poor women, 11 in total, were unlikely to get any of that because of what they did to survive.

This was the first book about Robert Lee Yates Jnr, that I’ve read. Although, I loved and appreciated the way the author treated the victims, that was almost all I liked about this book.  It was pretty wordy throughout, which interrupted the flow.  I did, at times, have trouble getting through each chapter especially when quotes from forensic or behavioural science professionals were added to the book. I can appreciate that the author perhaps wanted to show his research, but it really made the book drag and felt quite out of place.

But again, I really appreciate that this telling of Yates crimes was focused on showing us that the victims were people telling us about their lives and interviewing those who loved of knew them.  The reporting of their horrible murders were done so respectfully, and I didn’t feel like the murderer was given the spotlight, which was excellent.

So although it was a bit of a struggle for me, there was the respect and compassion for the victims that I really admired.

I rated Body Count: 3/5 stars

Happy Reading

Nat

Review: Keep Quiet by Lisa Scottoline #bookreview #bookblog

Blurb

Jake Buckman’s relationship with his sixteen-year-old son Ryan is not an easy one, so at the urging of his loving wife, Pam, Jake goes alone to pick up Ryan at their suburban movie theater. On the way home, Ryan asks to drive on a deserted road, and Jake sees it as a chance to make a connection. However, what starts as a father-son bonding opportunity instantly turns into a nightmare. Tragedy strikes, and with Ryan’s entire future hanging in the balance, Jake is forced to make a split-second decision that plunges them both into a world of guilt and lies. Without ever meaning to, Jake and Ryan find themselves living under the crushing weight of their secret, which threatens to tear their family to shreds and ruin them all. Powerful and dramatic, Keep Quiet will have readers and book clubs debating what it means to be a parent and how far you can, and should, go to protect those you love.

My Thoughts

I actually finished this one a few weeks ago but forgot to put my review up!

I actually really enjoyed how this one started. Father son issues that are complicated by a tragic event. I’ve hit a dog once, after I was unable to stop on a busy highway and it was awful, so I can’t only imagine how it would feel to hit a human being. So I really empathised with both Jake and Ryan. Can’t say I agreed with Jakes actions though, to hide the fact. I’ve always stuck up for the hit and run driver, because it’s completely normal to be in a fight or flight mode in this type of situation. Once the shock has worn off, the driver will turn themselves in, yet people make out that they’re monsters for not stopping. No. They’re humans. It actually makes a lot of biological sense.

There were parts of this story that were a tad slow, I liked when the mysterious man and the basketball game showed up, he was a good twist. I liked the way the author took the story, actually and the ending… I never would have guessed that. I found Jakes wife to be pretty hypocritical, with her secret and I found it hard to be on her side after that to be honest. She was probably one of my least favourite characters. I’m the the story ended the way it did. I feel like all the questions were answered for me, and overall it was a great story to read.

I rated Keep Quiet: 4/5 stars ⭐️

Happy Reading

Nat