[My Review]
Dead Secret by Ava McCarthy combines suspense, mystery and action to create a really great debut novel. I was so impressed at Ava McCarthy’s writing throughout this novel; although I don’t have children myself the writing made me put myself in her shoes and imagine what she must be feeling. Jodie’s desperation at times was really powerful and I truly hated her husband the more I read about how he treated her. McCarthy portrayed this behaviour in what I imagine is a very convincing way, and managed to create realistic characters that I wanted to read more about, and cared what happened to. I felt that the ending was also well-written, satisfying and quite plausible too.
The storyline moves along at a good pace and really kept my interest- I didn’t want to put it down! It had enough twists and turns to surprise me, without straying too far into unbelievable territory.I can’t say much more as I don’t want to ruin any of it for future readers!
Overall I am hugely impressed with Dead Secret and am looking forward to reading more by this author- if other work is anywhere near as good as this one then I’m sold! 🙂
[Rating: 5/5]
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for providing a copy of this novel in return for an honest review.
Dead Secret is published on January 14th.