A review by joinedfrays
All Your Twisted Secrets by Diana Urban

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

2.0

okay, so i didn’t really have high hopes for a YA murder mystery novel, but my friends had been begging me to read it for ages, so i finally cracked and borrowed a copy from my library.

i think i was right not to expect much to be honest.

on the back of the book, the characters are described according to which high school cliques they fall into. they deviate very little from those cliques. sasha especially got on my nerves—the concept isn’t very realistic on its own, but she’s just too two-dimensional even for this unrealistic story.

one thing i especially disliked was that
it’s told from the point of view of the person who organized the whole room with the bomb
so i had expected the twist to come for a long time.
 
in addition, at the end the culprit is
forgiven for her actions, which are mostly blamed on the aftermath of her sister’s suicide.
that left a very bad taste in my mouth, especially due to the serious subject matter.

so yeah, overall… not a good read. would have DNF-ed if my friends didn’t encourage me to keep reading.
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