Want to Know a Secret by Freida McFadden

 

Everyone has secrets.

YouTube baking sensation April Masterson knows the secret to the perfect gooey brownies. Or how to make key lime squares that will melt in your mouth. But if you keep watching her offline, you may find out some other secrets about April. Secrets she’d rather you didn’t know.

Like where did her son go when he snuck out of the house? What was she doing with the local soccer coach behind fogged windows?

And what’s buried in her backyard?

Everyone has secrets. Some are worse than others.

April’s secrets are enough to destroy her.

I’ll make sure of that.

I have had a mixed experience with Freida McFadden books, The Housemaid had me gripped but the others I have read haven't quite hit the mark that is until I sat and read Want to Know a Secret where once again I was swept along with a storyline that had me suspecting one character one minute then firmly accusing another one the next only to have me weaved into a web of twists and turns not knowing who to trust.

In the first half of this book which is told by April POV we get to know April who I began to see a little as a people pleaser, using her amazing cooking skills to form a sense of connection and security with people. Through April we meet her new neighbour Maria who she helps to introduce into the neighbourhood and the school mums including April's best friend Julie. In the beginning it feels just like easy reading cosy neighbourhood community vibes but gradually little things begin to make me suspicious and this is when I started collecting clues and suspicions on the women began to arise.

This book I guarantee will be an unpredictable read for every reader because one revelation literally hits so unexpectedly it was completely random. This is a fast paced thriller as we have come to know and expect from this authors books and is what I love as rather than a slow burn it keeps me on my toes right up until that very last page.

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