Want to know a secret
Author : Freida Mcfadden
Language : English
Genre : Crime, mystery thriller
About the book
Everyone has secrets.
YouTube baking sensation April Masterson knows the secret to the perfect gooey brownies. Or how to make key lime squares that will melt in your mouth. But if you keep watching her offline, you may find out some other secrets about April. Secrets she’d rather you didn’t know.
Like where did her son go when he snuck out of the house? What was she doing with the local soccer coach behind fogged windows?
And what’s buried in her backyard?
Everyone has secrets. Some are worse than others.
April’s secrets are enough to destroy her.
I’ll make sure of that.
About the author
Freida McFadden is a practicing physician specializing in brain injury who has penned multiple Kindle bestselling psychological thrillers and medical humor novels. She lives with her family and black cat in a centuries-old three-story home overlooking the ocean, with staircases that creak and moan with each step, and nobody could hear you if you scream. Unless you scream really loudly, maybe.
My take
This story takes place in a simple, close knit residential block, reminding me of desperate housewives, with women trying to show off their own talents and assets, mom's obsessed and sometimes overly involved in the school activities of their off springs, wives prying on others' husband's and poking nose in others business, a dominating, judgemental woman who decides that she is the authority, and formulates her own rules and regulations, as other women try to swoon around her and compete with each other to win over her heart.
April Masterson is one such mom, the wife of a super busy lawyer who doesn't have time for his wife or seven year old son Bobby. But April has made her own identity, by hosting a baking show on YouTube, which is slowly becoming an internet sensation.
Her best friend Julie Bressler is the self declared boss whom April keeps trying to please, by attending the book clubs she hosts, albeit never reading the concerned book, and by volunteering for anything that Julie asks from her as the president of parent teacher association, be it a bake sale or a silent auction.
A new neighbour, Maria, arrives next door and she has a son the same age as April's and Julie's. April now hopes the kids will be best friends and so will be the mom's. But there's one more thing. Maria has a super handsome hot husband Sean, and he seems to be falling for April's baked goods.
But things don't happen as planned. April begins receiving messages from a blocked number - messages that threaten to expose her reality. Things for which there is no explanation begin to happen and soon April's life begins spiralling out of control. And April has no idea who is doing this. And why.
The story is very well written. Even though the plot sounds cliche, it still makes an interesting read. Most part of the story is narrated from the POV of April and the rest is from the POV of the perpetrator.
The flow of the story is nice and the incidents that happen keep us hooked on to know what exactly is going on, what exactly is happening and what is it that April is trying so hard to hide.
The ending is twisted and I never saw it coming. The characters are well sketched, and I have started appreciating unreliable narrators as well.
I am absolutely loving this author - the way she can twist even the simplest of plots in such a way that a normal story becomes a nail biting thriller.
The cover page is attractive, and I rate this one 4 stars.
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