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This is a dark, twenty first century, romantic mystery. There is a lot of history in this mix of Charlotte Bronte and Daphne du Maurier . The author's writing mechanics were good, except for the many, many throw away passages. The throw always bothered me at first, but they had a use.The main character, Sarah, falls in love with a man whose wife has gone missing. Where is this wife named Genevieve? Everything points to Alex, her husband, as being complicit in her disappearance. Sarah follows the...
This book was intriguing and it kept me reading all the way through. It started off slowly and gathered pace until it literally galloped to the end. I agree with many reviewers that it was like Rebecca the wonderful classic which is one of my all time favourites but, there wasn’t so much of the creepy undertones which as this book is set in present day isn’t surprising. I loved this book and would happily read more by this author.
In 'The Secrets Between Us', Sarah is reeling from a bad break-up during a vacation when she meets a handsome and mysterious man named Alex. Their passionate affair leads to Sarah agreeing to move in with Alex and his soon-to-be seven-year-old son Jamie. Working as their housekeeper while keeping their relationship a secret, she's over the moon until she finds out that Alex's gorgeous wife, Genevieve is missing. What has happened to her? More importantly, why is he being so tight-lipped about he...
Ah, the trashy summer book! Also known as a 'beach read'. Don't be fooled by the fact that it's almost 550 pages long, this is as feather-light as fiction gets. The unassuming and unremarkable narrator, Sarah, has recently split from her cheating husband when she meets an enigmatic man, Alexander, on holiday in Sicily. The two are immediately drawn to each other and (in a ludicrously unbelievable turn of events) Alexander asks Sarah if she will move into his run-down English countryside home and...
3.5 starsWith vibes of Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier The Secrets Between Us is a Gothic mystery filled with atmospheric doom and a romance for the ages. The author brilliantly disguises the characters' motivations, so that the true causes of things remain a mystery until about two-thirds into the novel when the main crisis unfolds. We then realize that the heroine, who sees things through the lens of her own feelings of inferiority completely misses the truth, which is to her a shoc
This is chick lit lite, an ok story but the characters were a bit flat and the book could have done with some serious editing.
A solid plot with veins of Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca running through it, I found myself engrossed in this romantic thriller. While on holiday in Sicily, Sarah meets Alex and his son Jamie. Strangely drawn to them, she accepts an offer from Alex to return with him and help look after Jamie, whose mother has 'gone', leaving Alex struggling to cope. Trying to escape heartache and a failed relationship, Sarah sees it as the perfect opportunity to start afresh. On arriving at Avalon though, Alex's
This was going to be a three star rating BUT the ending was totally unexpected and so I took it to four stars. I think it could have been less than 550 pages as it went on a bit too long. I don't think I really got to like Sarah until the final quarter of the book - until then she was a bit weak
This is a "who done it" with a modern twist. I didn't guess who the culprit was until near the end. Some have compared it to a hint of Daphne du Mauriers Rebecca which I disagree with. Rebecca is a beautiful classic. The female character has an innocence to her which Sahra in this book does not have. In fact I found her very apathetic and the ending the same.
The book was a page turner. The main character came across as very naive which, for me, detracted from the credibility of the plot
The story starts in Italy when Sarah first meets Alex and his young son, Jamie, on holiday. Sarah is the narrator throughout and she is recovering from the trauma of recently losing her new born baby and then discovering her partner's infidelity, so she is quite vulnerable and that's probably why she jumps at the chance of a fresh start when Alex asks her to come and live with him and help to look after Jamie.Her family and friends all thinks she's mad and she also has doubts as she thinks "what...
After the first few slow chapters this book kept me reading, which is saying something as I generally have a low boredom threshold. However there were several things I struggled with. The style, on occasion, feels very pedantic. One whole chapter is taken up with the heroine sunbathing, showering after sunbathing, and then putting on sun cream. Minute and unimportant details are given in a laundry list format, and it almost kept me from reading more. Once the heroine left Sicily, however, the pa...
