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Book ReviewsDark Secrets: Don't Tell (Dark Secrets) |
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Book: Dark Secrets: Don't Tell (Dark Secrets)
Written by: Elizabeth Chandler |
Publisher: Rebound by Sagebrush
Average Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5
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Don't Tell by Elizabeth Chandler
Rating:
5 / 5
Don't Tell is one of the Dark Secrets series that I highly recommend to be read - in fact I also highly suggest that everyone read all the Dark Secrets books. Don't Tell is about a seventeen year old girl name Lauren, who has finally came home to where her mother had died mysteriously seven years ago. While just arriving there, she meets her old friend Nick who flirts and tease with her before realizing that she was his old playmate. When she finally arrives to her Aunt's Jule's house, everyone seems to be very warm and welcoming - everyone that is except Nora. Lauren discovers that she wasn't the only one that finds Nora's behaviour strange, Holly, Nora's sister, does too but Aunt Jule doesn't believe that Nora really needs medical attention and wasn't planning to do anything about. Then unexpectedly Lauren finds things in her room twisted in knots - just like what happened to her mother before she died. Nick at first seems to be nice and acting more than a friend to Lauren, but then all of a sudden turns cold and hating towards her and starts to stick to Holly and take her side. Then Lauren experience many horrifying collisons - which she was told to be only 'accidents'. Was her mother's death really accident just as everyone told her? Someone wants her dead, just as someone had wanted her mother... Lauren better hurry and find the killer before they get her...
I find this book to be very thrilling a moment then strange the next. I read it in two hours or so because I kept wondering about lots of things and so I couldn't put it down. When you read this book everything may seem strange and odd, but at the end it gives you answers to all the questions you have been wondering about. I didn't really understand the whole book till I read the ending. However, I don't suggest you skip to the end till your there, it ruins the value of the book and then you won't find it thrilling any longer. Don't Tell definitely deserves a rating of five stars. In most hte Elizabeth Chandler's books the person you always least expect to be the 'bad guy' always end up being it, I found that many people have written that they don't like it. Well I find it an excellent way of writing, it keeps you wondering and guessing who actually did the crime, and at the end it makes you go oh why haven't you thought of it, and thats partly why I read her books so I don't really know why people are saying they hate it. In reality thats mostly what happens, the person who you mostly suspect ends up to be innocent. If Elizabeth Chandler writes that the person everyone suspect is the bad guy then it won't really surprise me and it won't be that good. I just wanted to clarify that. Other than that I hope everyone reads this book because is worth taking time to read!
Mysterious, romantic, and suspensful "Page Turner"
Rating:
5 / 5
Elizabeth Chandeler is a gifted wtitter... she is able everytime to make the dark secrets book so good. I love these books.. and everytime i finsh one i go to the next one.. I found this book in my school libray.. I read this one first followed by "NO time to die" which was such a good book.. and read it over, b/c u will find so many good things in that book. then i read " The Deep end of fear" which iam actaully just finshing right now.. once im done this im reading the first book in the coollection " Leacy of lies"
heres a breif summary:
17 year old Lauren comes back to Wisteria, Maryland 7 years after her famous mothers (Sondra) mysterious drwoning.. they said it was an accident but magazines and tabloids scream murder.. She has returned to her grandmother, Aunt jule. She treats Laurn as if she was her own child and gives her all the attentionn a person would ever want. Which makes her own daughter Holly jelous. Nora, anunt jules other daughter is slinet and spooky and stares at lauren with frightening intensity. She allso cliams that she talks and see laurens dead mother 'Sondra' and taht she get very angry wen laurn wears anunt jules dress and heart neckalce. Before seeing anunt jule. she stops at Wsiterias annual street festival adn meets Nick Hurley, a tease a flirt, a child hood paly mate. And falls for him.. the day is allmost perfect until she relizes shes being watch. Nick seems liek he wants to be more the Lauren freind. But the why all of a sudden does he become hostile and to lauern and guled to holly. how can she trust Nick, the guy that she is fallling for, but slowly has turned aginst her for no reason... how can she trust him or anyone now that a seris of 'accidents' have happned. Lauren beings to think that her mothers death was no accidnet it was murder,and now somone wnats her dead. This time, thers no place to run and no one to turn to.
great boook.. love the romance and suppnse and mystery.. read the book and the rest.. for now bye ---- Jess-----
Accident or Not?
Rating:
4 / 5
Dark Secrets: Don't Tell is about Lauren,a senator's daughter that returns to Wisteria seven years after the summer her mother drowned there. She thought she would feel comfortable with her Aunt Jule and cousins, Holly and Nora, but finds that her mother's death still haunts her. She notices that Nora has grown into a quiet and spooky girl. She gets along more with her other cousin Holly. She soon runs into Nick, a childhood friend, and develops a crush on him.
Things go well for Lauren until scary things start happening to her. At first she thinks that she's imagining the knots and that she's being paranoid about her mother's death, but soon the 'accidents' she's been having could've resulted deadly. She starts wondering if her mother's death was really an accident and feels that someone wants her dead also.
With Nick suddenly dating Holly, who has also turned against her, Lauren doesnt know who to turn to for help. Aunt Jule ignores Nora's weird behavior. If Lauren were to start accusing Nora of all the things happening to her, Aunt Jule might not be so hospitable towards Lauren.
This book is a page-turner with many twists in its plot. The author reveals both good and bad traits about all the characters, often confusing the reader about whether to like the character or not but at the same time not exactly leading you to a biased opinion of the characters. In the last chapters everything, including the mystery of her mother's death, unfolds and makes sense. It's ending is completely unpredictable, making this a good read if the events in the story did not.
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