Title: Can You Keep a Secret?
Author: Caroline Overington
Published: Random House AU September 2014
Status: Read from September 09 to 11, 2014 — I own a copy {Courtesy the publisher/Netgalley}
My Thoughts:
It happens on very rare occasions that I can’t quite figure out how to articulate my thoughts about a book. I have written and rewritten my thoughts about Can You Keep A Secret? a half a dozen times and still can’t pull together anything cohesive.
I think it is because I didn’t like it for reasons that are purely emotive. I know that when I finished the last page I dropped my Kindle in a mixture of frustration and incredulity. Some sort of trust had been broken between the author and myself that I can only partially attribute to the protagonist’s ‘secret’, and feels too complicated to explain.
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Also by Caroline Overington reviewed at Book’d Out
Sep 15, 2014 @ 19:52:32
It is disappointing when books do not turn out as you would like or expect–or when you find that for whatever reason, you just cannot connect with the ending. I have not read this one, so I cannot offer any insights there, but I’ll keep my fingers crossed that the next book you read works a bit better for you.
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Sep 15, 2014 @ 22:09:35
I found it hard to write about without giving anything away. I thought it had something interesting to say about our online lives…. but going much further than that – well, it’s giving too much away!
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Sep 16, 2014 @ 16:47:46
I actually do agree with you Deb, I think it does have interesting things to say about online identity and international adoption.
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Sep 16, 2014 @ 00:19:09
I have had that experience with the occasional book…it is very frustrating! So sorry you didn’t enjoy this one.
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