Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Every Secret Thing by Laura Lippman

Summary

"Two little girls banished from a neighborhood birthday party take a wrong turn down an unfamiliar Baltimore street and encounter an abandoned stroller with an infant inside. What happens next is shocking and terrible, and three families are irreparably destroyed.
Seven years later, Alice Manning and Ronnie Fuller, now eighteen, are released from "kid prison" to begin their lives over again. But the secrets swirling around the original crime continue to haunt the parents, the lawyers, the police all the adults in Alice and Ronnie's lives. And now another child has disappeared, under freakishly similar circumstances ..."

Review

I was a little skeptical when beginning Every Secret Thing. I was worried it would be dramatic and morbid, but was immediately drawn into the world of the characters. There are many different characters and sub-plots so that this book creates its own world with its myriad of characters. After seeing things from each characters perspective its almost impossible to not sympathize with them to some degree. The plot took a turn I did not quite expect, and I was hooked into the story so that I wanted to find out what happened. It didn't leave many loose-ends and I felt a nice resolution at the end of the book.



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