Name: The Book of Living Secrets
ISBN: 9780062941428

Madeleine Roux

The Book of Living Secrets

The start was a lil slower but as I read it kept getting better and better (and more action packed and scarier). 

The twists were genius, I loved them so much!!

The ending of the epilogue??? I read a few times and I have so many questions. 

The themes of this book are also super important, I don't want to spoiler anything so I won't mention them. 

Yalin Tsikun

The start was a lil slower but as I read it kept getting better and better (and more action packed and scarier). 

The twists were genius, I loved them so much!!

The ending of the epilogue??? I read a few times and I have so many questions. 

The themes of this book are also super important, I don't want to spoiler anything so I won't mention them. 

Perfect for fans of The Hazel Wood, this genre-bending page-turner from New York Times bestselling author Madeleine Roux follows two girls who transport themselves into the world of their favorite book only to encounter the sinister alternate reality that awaits them. 

No matter how different best friends Adelle and Connie are, one thing they’ve always had in common is their love of a little-known gothic romance novel called Moira. So when the girls are tempted by a mysterious man to enter the world of the book, they hardly suspect it will work. But suddenly they are in the world of Moira, living among characters they’ve obsessed about for years. 

Except…all is not how they remembered it. The world has been turned upside down: The lavish balls and star-crossed love affairs are now interlaced with unspeakable horrors. The girls realize that something dark is lurking behind their foray into fiction—and they will have to rewrite their own arcs if they hope to escape this nightmare with their lives.

Maegan Kennedy

Rating: 1⭐️ 

Thank you to the publisher for gifting me an arc via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. 

I loved the idea of this book. Falling into one of your favourite books sounds like a booknerd’s dream! Adelle and Connie seem to think so, but their favourite book isn’t all it seems to be. 

I read the first 100 pages before becoming bored and skimming the next 100ish. Then I decided to jump right to the end. I was able to predict the ending just from skimming the first little bit. That was a let down. 

This story moved so fast but left no space for growth. Within the first few chapters, the girls had fallen into their favourite book and one had been whisked off to the mansion and the other had been kidnapped. There’s was a lot of action in this book but there was no story growth. It all felt like it was there just to be there. Like the characters that kidnapped Connie. There was no mention of them in the book Connie was familiar with but they were present when she was magically transported into the story. That’s just weird. The majority of the beginning had me rolling my eyes at the cliches that were included. And the end wasn’t anything spectacular either. It was predictable and cliche. 

I really wanted to like this book but unfortunately it just wasn’t for me.