A review by chelz286
The Secret Field by Susan Dennis, Susan Dennis

adventurous challenging funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

3.5

This novel was a tangled web of diverse characters that I would have never cast together, and a mess of finger pointing but it all fit together and made for a few laughs and the thriller of trying to figure out what is happening. Kari has a mess of a life she is trying to piece back together and as she is finally starting to let her guard slowly down, it seems one thing after another is happening and pushing her further and further out of her comfort zone and the normal life she tried creating for herself. Having put her mother in an institution and buying herself a little house and piece of land out in the middle of nowhere, she thought she could retreat into herself and be left alone for once. But life had other plans, as well as the very diverse characters she gets acquainted with. Not any fault of her own, but Kari's house may no longer be that safe piece of haven and now she is fighting to keep what she has worked so hard to obtain. But someone has another agenda in mind, and it all lies in historic gossip that may not even hold true from when her piece of land was part of a large plantation, and a mysterious photo of coin so rare, that its worth is not even calculable. Tons of strange acting cats have been on her property, her mother gets dumped on her doorstep, and an unexpected roommate has also wound himself into her life, on the brink of a break down Kari no longer knows what is truth, what is fiction and who to trust. One of my favorite lines in this novel is a theme throughout. 

"The ignorant are always cock sure, but the intelligent are filled with doubt." - Susan Dennis.

Thank you to the author for the free novel and Suzy Approved Book Tours for the invite, I enjoyed the mishmash of characters that helped play out this novel.