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Want to Know a Secret? by Freida McFadden

7 reviews

rockyc5's review

mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

Good F McF!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Bullying

Minor: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Grief, and Stalking

sharlapeggy's review

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

A good book. Good twists and turns, some of them unexpected. Not one of my favourites by her as it didn’t grip me immediately but it was a good one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Dementia, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

challenging mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

I love an untrustworthy narrator, but this didn't work for me as well as it could have. I feel like the best untrustworthy narrators are ones in which you get basically the whole story but in a severely biased bent. In this book, you get the story from April for the first about half of the book, and then the narrator turns to Julia in the second half of the book. So you assume

that April is telling the whole truth initially, and then you doubt her when Julia starts talking, and it becomes clear that that is the actual truth. Which was a little disappointing because I like a little doubt.

But then you realize that

April has been leaving all kinds of events out of her story, which is just like. Oh. And you feel a little left out.

Also I really hated both narrators lol with their classist and annoying selves.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Chronic illness, Stalking, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Forced institutionalization, and Murder

Minor: Body shaming, Gun violence, Medical trauma, and Alcohol

avidreaderandgeekgirl's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

 Narrator Rating: 4.0 stars 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Classism

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Dementia, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual content and Pregnancy

rsagarin's review

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Bullying, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

bookishchaos's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I liked the unreliable narration, and it was very entertaining. However it felt similar to a lot of Freida Mcfadden's other books, the plot twist was unpredictable but very far fetched. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Stalking, and Murder

Moderate: Eating disorder, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Pregnancy

xnolakola's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder and Infertility

Minor: Death of parent