Helpful Score: 8
i loved it the twisted plot was really good kept me interested thoroughly. Recommended for lovers of thrillers
Helpful Score: 6
A great book about complicated relationships, psychologically damaging friendships, and secrets
Helpful Score: 5
A psychological thriller. Two Manhattan prep school students make a pact to lose their virginity before graduation. But on one bitterly cold holiday weekend in an isolated cabin in Vermont, a horrifying twist develops in the plan. This novel travels through decades from New York to Vermont to California, showing the friendship between 2 very different women,the burden of carrying a secret, and the lies told to others & ourselves when the truth is too painful to accept.
Helpful Score: 4
Wow! I couldn't put this book down.
A psychological thriller full of secrets, lies and a manipulative villain. A quick read that kept me anxious for Carole's fate from beginning to end.
A psychological thriller full of secrets, lies and a manipulative villain. A quick read that kept me anxious for Carole's fate from beginning to end.
Helpful Score: 3
This book really grabbed me in the beginning chapters but bogged down somewhere in the middle.I finished the book but wasn't really that interested by the ending.Too bad because it was so promising at the start
Helpful Score: 2
This was a great book, I couldn't wait to get to the end to find out what happened!
Helpful Score: 2
This book was a hard read, it is supposed to be a psychological thriller but I didn't really find anything thrilling about it. I only finished it because I can't stand not knowing, and hoping the book would improve. The main character starts off as 16 year old girl, Carole, who makes a pact with her best friend Naomie to loose her virginity during a school break holiday. Little did she know that there would be a horrible accident that leaves one woman dead, and two girls trying to keep a secret. The book follows Carole and Naomi's lives from youth to adulthood, from New York to California and Vermont. The main antagonist in this book is greasy and cruel, not the best choice for their pact. He keeps popping up in Carole's life no matter where she runs or hides. The ending was anticlimactic. Though there was depth to the characters the plotline was slow and boring. The book does draw some interesting thoughts to the psychology of lies, and the path life can lead from one incident.
Helpful Score: 2
Very engaging debut novel about friendship, betrayal, and the price of keeping secrets....
Helpful Score: 2
A very interesting read. Didn't know where it was going in the beginning but half way through I could not put it down.
Helpful Score: 2
I could not bear to put this book down. It was chilling, enthralling..... One of the best mystery/thrillers I've read in a long time.
The beginning was excellent - and while I did finish it the end portions left something to be desired. Great portrayal of a woman terrified by a secret, and a family torn apart by one mistake
Helpful Score: 1
The story captured my attention from the beginning. You feel as if you were a part of the era, growing up in the 1960s. The only negative I found with the book was it got a touch boring around the middle of the book. However, the ending proved to make this an excellent read for a novice author.
Helpful Score: 1
I was hoping for a little more from this book...maybe a better twist that I didn't see coming from the very beginning. I was a little disapointed there was not more suspense or twists. However, it kept my attention and I did somewhat enjoy it.
Helpful Score: 1
Hmmm, despite the great reviews, I didn't like it. I felt that there were a lot of details that were overlooked in the story line. It jumped all over the place at times. Very frustrating.
Helpful Score: 1
Creepy...just creepy.
Helpful Score: 1
This was a good book. I passed it to 3 of my co-workers as well as discussing it in an online book club. The ending was a real twist, and very satisfying for the reader.
Helpful Score: 1
I love when you start reading a book and you feel as though you've stepped into the world of the characters lives in progress. That's how this was, the story line was one I'd never read before and it took you places that could not be guessed. A real adventure.
A teen girl's first experience with sex warped into a lifetime of secrets and shame.
Very worth reading.
A teen girl's first experience with sex warped into a lifetime of secrets and shame.
Very worth reading.
Helpful Score: 1
Great edge-of-your-seat story! A 16 yr. old has to grow up with a haunting secret that keeps popping up in her life.
Helpful Score: 1
Very suspensful- great 1st novel from the author
Helpful Score: 1
What a great page-turner about how a kept secret plays out over your life! Just the kind of book I love to read...grabs you from the start and keeps you wondering what happens next. I would recommend this book highly to anyone who likes a great story!
This book was just OK for me. I guess I couldn't connect to the character or her story. I was able to finish it because I kept thinking it would get good, but it never did.
I stayed up past bedtime to finish this enthralling novel by a new author. I hope she has many more books inside her.
I guess I'm just too used to reading True Crime and not fiction like this ..... so many coincidences just do not happen in one's life.
From the very beginning of this book, I could relate to the narator, Carol. One mistake on top of another, on top of another. Pretty soon, the pile of mistakes is so big, it seems you can never see the light again. The book was slow at times in the middle but by the end I couldn't read fast enough to see how it ended.
This is a great mystery with a great twist at the end.
Great psychological thriller. Haunting and compelling how one night can change the course of the rest of your life. Characters were creepy and spineless. Very chilling, would definately recommend to those that like psycho-thrillers!!!!!
Read it in two days. It is amazing how on lie can change the outcome of your whole life.
This was a fast paced thriller spanning ten years. It was well written and interesting, finished it in 2 days. Not a lot of twists and turns but a good overall story.
I really enjoyed this book. I would recommend it to anymore looking for a thriller/mystery. Put in on your list of books to read.
I highly recommend this psychological thriller! Lies and secrets multiply until the past "rears its ugly head" and truth's surface.
I really enjoyed this story!
Ugh! I couldn't get past the first chapter......too perverse!
Excellent read!
Very good book. Recommend this page turner. Secrets can rule every aspect of your life for years.
This is a wonderfully suspenseful tale.
A real page-turner.
Definatley reccommended :]
A real page-turner.
Definatley reccommended :]
Its a quick and easy read with some of the strangest characters I've ever read about.
Great Reading!
Good story with action right from the beginning.
great book. Had a hard time putting it down
Good book.
Interesting story, interesting characters, though about a quarter way through I had kind of figured out what was going on. I guess what you take away from this is not to lose your virginity to some guy you've never met. Should be required reading for all High School girls !!
Excellent book! Great nail biting and sitting on the edge of your seat suspense! A book you'll never forget!
kind of weird , first few chapters better later on
Wow, this book was really REALLY good.
Really good book, will read more by this author.
