I’ve been in a reading mood & reading so many books back to back, fairly quickly, that I didn’t even realize I’d skipped this review. I read this book the 3rd week of May & have read 6 other books since so it’s not exactly fresh in my mind, & this was before I started taking notes while reading, which I just started doing with my latest read lol anyway here we go…
Two Can Keep a Secret
- Category – YA Mystery Thriller
- Length – 329 Pages
- Read Time – 2 Days
- GR Rating – 4 Stars
“O What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.”
This story was a TANGLED web of deceit & secrets, & as it happens with secrets & lies in the end the truth comes to light. I was hooked from beginning to end, as evident by the 2 day read time I couldn’t put this book down. I just had to know what was next, every time I thought I had it guessed nope, wrong.
This story centers around twins Ellery & Ezra, (or maybe Ellery & Malcom? back to Malcolm in a sec) who are moving in with their grandmother in a small town new to them. Echo Ridge was their mothers hometown, a place she doesn’t speak of or visit, their mother who was also a twin. Twin to a sister that was killed in that very town as a teen & whose murder was never solved, being a small town this is a pretty big deal. Fairly early on in the book we find out that Ellery & Ezra’s mother is in some kind of rehab, the twins don’t know their father & their mother won’t talk to them about him or about her murdered sister (their aunt, Lacey).
Calamity ensues QUICKLY, the book beginning with a hit & run that leaves a well known teacher dead on the side of the road & the disappearance of another teen girl, in eerily similar fashion to the twins murdered aunt. Ellery is a true-crime enthusiast & sets herself up (with the help of Malcolm) to be the “Velma” that cracks the case of the dead teacher & the missing/dead girl & her murdered aunt. No, that’s not actually what happens, this time a gang of meddling kids don’t solve the mystery.
Malcolm’s older brother, Declan, was the # 1 suspect in the case of Lacey’s murder & just so happens to have moved back close to town around the time the body is found on the side of the road & another girl goes missing. A fact he hid & kept secret, das suspicious das weird *Cardi voice*. Spoiler, it wasn’t him, either time. Regardless Malcolm is unsure of his brothers innocence in either situation & decides the best course of action is spying with Ellery rather than talking to his brother, even when he is actively suspicious of him, not cool.
In the end most of my predictions turned out wrong & I didn’t guess the killer. I think the other lies & secrets happening around the center big secret convoluted the story more & took away some of the predictability aspect that I see in a lot of mystery thriller books. There were other mysteries taking my attention away from the main plot. Most importantly though, the last sentence! The last sentence bumped my rating up half a star all on its own.
Thank you for joining me for another review, I’d love to read your thoughts on my review & of course on the book too.
- Have you read this book?
- What was your favorite part? (The last sentence!)
- What was your least favorite part? (Can’t remember one.)
- How many stars do you rate this book?
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