Title:
All Her Secrets
Author:
Kate Avery Ellison
Publisher:
Self-Published
Release
Date: October 18, 2016
Genre:
Young Adult Psychological Thriller
ISBN:
9780998103907
Nothing
is as it seems in this psychological YA thriller set in a not-too-distant
future.
A
GIRL WITH SECRETS
Eighteen-year-old
Victoria, the daughter of inventor and visionary-genius Bill Faraday, was
almost murdered by a stranger four years ago. She's been trying to forget the
incident ever since.
When
Victoria discovers something that might explain why she was brutally attacked,
she heads home from college to uncover the truth. Then, she’s kidnapped.
A
GUY FROM THE WRONG SIDE OF THE TRACKS
Sam’s
just a poor kid from Toivo, an experimental utopia gone wrong, but he knows who
Victoria is as soon as his cousin Craig drags her from the trees. He doesn’t
want anything to do with what appears to be a revenge kidnapping, but Craig has
a gun and needs someone to take the fall if things go wrong.
A
DESPERATE PLAN TO SURVIVE
Craig
and his buddies imprison Sam and Victoria in an abandoned mountain cabin to
await ransom. Putting aside mistrust for tentative friendship, Victoria and Sam
conspire to escape together, and the close quarters ignite a startling
attraction between them. Then they discover strange tunnels beneath the cabin.
And what they find inside the tunnels proves more bizarre.
With
a plan in place to escape, freedom seems within reach. But Sam and Victoria are
both keeping secrets about their past.
And
secrets can be deadly.
My Review:
What could have been a story we have heard before, about a kidnapping and the bond that forms because of it, is instead a unique and gripping tale full of surprises and twists.
Ellison's best move is the world she creates for her characters. The "experimental utopia gone wrong" gives Ellison a fascinating and unique world to play in, and sets up the great twists and turns to follow.
Even though much of the story takes place in one setting, with the two main characters trapped in a cabin, the revelations and secrets each character shares keep the story from dragging.
I would definitely recommend this book for fans of young adult books, especially psychological thrillers.
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About Kate Avery Ellison:
Kate
Avery Ellison decided she wanted to be an author when she was five years old,
and with hard work, determination, and the support of loved ones along the way,
her dreams of telling stories for a living came true in 2011 with her first
novel, The Curse Girl, and continued with her Amazon bestselling series The
Frost Chronicles and numerous other fantasy and science fiction novels. She
loves putting a dash of mystery in everything she writes, an ode to her childhood
spent reading Nancy Drew, Agatha Christie, and Sherlock Holmes, and she can’t
resist adding a good twist in the story wherever she can.
Kate
wishes she could live in a place where it’s always October, but until that’s
possible, she makes her home in humid Atlanta with her husband, son, and two
spoiled cats. When she isn’t dreaming up her next novel or holed up writing it
down, Kate can be found binging her favorite shows on Netflix, reading on her
Kindle, building intricate train track configurations with her toddler, and
playing board games with her husband and friends.
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