Our main two perspectives are Ellery, a true crime obsessed teen who has just moved to her mother’s home town of Echo Park, and Malcolm, the younger brother of a former golden boy. While on the surface our cast seems to fill various tropes of the genre (the cynical new girl, the misunderstood outsider, the manipulative and popular bitch), McManus writes them all in such a way that they feel fresh and unique. Once again, McManus has a compelling hook and likable characters that immediately pull the reader in. The good news is that I liked “Two Can Keep A Secret” even more than “One of Us Is Lying”!

Given my enjoyment of her previous book, “One of Us Is Lying”, I was excited and nervous to read her follow up to a stellar debut. McManus’s newest YA mystery thriller “Two Can Keep A Secret”. But when they do? ( source)Īnd that brings me to Karen M. If a book doesn’t live up to those (probably unfair) expectations, woe be unto the author and the universe they create. Basically, if you are writing a book about a small town with seedy secrets, I’m going to immediately start chanting in my head about magicians longing to see and stuff of that nature. I know that I probably over reference “Twin Peaks” in my blog posts, but given that for me it’s the pinnacle of storytelling it’s a standard that I can’t help but hold certain types of stories to. Review: Thank you so much to NetGalley for sending me an eARC of this book! Which is why in Echo Ridge, it’s safest to keep your secrets to yourself. The thing is, secrets are dangerous–and most people aren’t good at keeping them. And the longer she’s in Echo Ridge, the clearer it becomes that everyone there is hiding something. Her mother has them her grandmother does too. Then, almost as if to prove it, another girl goes missing.Įllery knows all about secrets. And before school even begins for Ellery, someone’s declared open season on homecoming, promising to make it as dangerous as it was five years ago. The town is picture-perfect, but it’s hiding secrets. Now Ellery has to move there to live with a grandmother she barely knows. And only five years ago, a homecoming queen put the town on the map when she was killed. Her aunt went missing there at age seventeen. Ellery’s never been there, but she’s heard all about it. Where Did I Get This Book: I received an eARC from NetGalley.īook Description: Echo Ridge is small-town America. Publishing Info: Delacorte Press, January 2019 Book: “Two Can Keep A Secret” by Karen M.

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