Secrets book review:

For our Summer Holiday homework we had to read this book called Secrets. I was really looking forward to this considering that last Summer Holiday I got seven pieces of homework from all different subjects. The author of this book came to our school and only our year got to talk to her. She read us a little parts of the book and asked us a few questions like how many of you read and for how long etc... Then we got to ask her some questions and this lasted for an hour. Me and my friend went to see her at lunch and asked her some other questions. After this we got given a book each and were told to read it over the summer. So I thought if I have to read it I might as well do a blog post about it and tell you lot about this.
   It wasn't the greatest book ever as you can guess if the author has time for a secondary school that to be fair isn't well known at all. Unless you live in the area you won't even know it exist. It was about a teenage girl that moves into a house that a man that her mum met on the internet owns. Her mum and the man (Shaun) get married in a week after they move in together. This Shaun has a son called Joe that seems too quiet and distant from his dad and the house. Then the day after they pick up her dog, he digs up something that Brooke also found in her room and she keeps it. The more she finds out about Shaun and his family the more scared she gets. She tries to get out the house as much as possible and Brooke makes a friend called Rose who is a traveller. Rose and her brother said they'll help Rose with Shaun in any way possible. Afterwards she makes a shocking discovery.
   I think my favourite character has to be Brooke's Yorkshire terrier . He reminds me so much of my old Yorkshire terriers. He helps Brooke to find evidence and is her comfort when Shaun is around. He was described as a really cute little dog.
   This post is going to be a bit short this time because I actually didn't really enjoy this book. It was building up the suspense all the way through the book and the end just dropped the suspense like that. It was a bit of a let down to be honest. However the start and the middle were really good it's just the ending that let the book down. When she spoke with my year she said that not many children read so to keep our attention she keeps her books short. I think if you're going to write a book use as many pages as you need if you don't use enough it's to fast paced for most people to read or like this one the start, middle or end will be over too quickly. If you use too many pages then you will drag the story on too long and the readers will get bored.

Hope you enjoyed this post and I'll see you next time. If you have any books you want me to read then please put them in the comments.

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