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A review by burningupasun
The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets by Eva Rice
4.0
This book wasn't quite a five star book but oh it was close, and it was good! I think this was recommended to me either by a person or Goodreads (I can't remember) as being similar to I Capture The Castle. I definitely see the similarities, though this book was a bit more grown up, and a bit more racy. It had more lipstick and flirting and girls screaming at American male singers, haha. This book was very much about love. About losing love and what it does to you, but I think also on a whole the impact of young love; not just on the teenage characters but on the adults around them who fell in love young, too, and are now dealing with the loss of it, or how it changed them.
I think the main character Penelope and her best friend Charlotte were my favorites, but the whole cast of characters was fascinating. They were realistically well written in that way where there were times when they irritated you, but you still liked them and sympathized with them, too.
And of course I cried at the end, which is pretty par for the course these days when it comes to me reading good books! I definitely recommend if you like a good historical YA fiction, this is a fun, lively, but emotional one.
Some favorite quotes:
“As he started 'Whisky and Gin' and the cheering and the shrieking filled my senses, I thought of Mama, shattered by the war and Papa's death and I wished with all my heart that she could understand how it felt to be us that night - how it felt to be eighteen and unbeaten, eighteen and alive.”
“Men, I thought, were more trouble than they were worth. Really, one should stick to books where one sees the hero coming a mile off.”
I think the main character Penelope and her best friend Charlotte were my favorites, but the whole cast of characters was fascinating. They were realistically well written in that way where there were times when they irritated you, but you still liked them and sympathized with them, too.
And of course I cried at the end, which is pretty par for the course these days when it comes to me reading good books! I definitely recommend if you like a good historical YA fiction, this is a fun, lively, but emotional one.
Some favorite quotes:
“As he started 'Whisky and Gin' and the cheering and the shrieking filled my senses, I thought of Mama, shattered by the war and Papa's death and I wished with all my heart that she could understand how it felt to be us that night - how it felt to be eighteen and unbeaten, eighteen and alive.”
“Men, I thought, were more trouble than they were worth. Really, one should stick to books where one sees the hero coming a mile off.”