Little Secrets by Anna Snoekstra
Publisher :Mira Books
Published: 17th October 2017
Pages: 332
Series: no
Source: Ebook from Netgalley
Blurb:
What happens when ambition trumps the truth?
A town reeling in the wake of tragedy
An
arsonist is on the loose in Colmstock, Australia, most recently burning
down the town's courthouse and killing a young boy who was trapped
inside..
An aspiring journalist desperate for a story
The
clock is ticking for Rose Blakey. With nothing but rejections from
newspapers piling up, her job pulling beers for cops at the local tavern
isn't nearly enough to cover rent. Rose needs a story-a big one.
Little dolls full of secrets
In
the weeks after the courthouse fire, precise porcelain replicas of
Colmstock's daughters begin turning up on doorsteps, terrifying parents
and testing the limits of the town's already fractured police force.
Rose
may have finally found her story. But as her articles gain traction and
the boundaries of her investigation blur, Colmstock is seized by a
seething paranoia. Soon, no one is safe from suspicion. And when Rose's
attention turns to the mysterious stranger living in the rooms behind
the tavern, neighbor turns on neighbor and the darkest side of
self-preservation is revealed.
My thoughts:
Anna Snoekstra has written a complex and riveting novel with a clearly manipulative and unlikeable protagonist.
Straight up Rose starts to manipulate the reader. I initially felt sorry for her but the more I read the more I learned that she was selfish and unscrupulous.
Set in a small country town where unemployment is high and drug use is on the increase you could feel the oppression. Rose’s only ambition is to become a journalist and leave Colmstock behind.
As in “Only Daughter” Snoekstra has again given us a whole load of messed up characters and in “Little Secrets” has placed them in a small town where they can do nothing expect destroy each other.
Many plot lines run through the novel and in a town where everyone has a secret to keep I couldn’t possibly guess the outcome with any of them.
I hated most of the characters, they made me angry, sad and disgusted. All emotions I think the author was trying to evoke.
Little Secrets was a great read! Full of surprises!
Content- Frequent coarse language F –word C-word
Sex scene
Graphic violence
About the Author
Anna Snoekstra was born
in Canberra, Australia in 1988. She studied Creative Writing and Cinema
at Melbourne University, followed by Screenwriting at RMIT University.
Anna's
short films and music videos have screened around the world. She has
written an array of published and award winning short fiction. Her debut
novel ONLY DAUGHTER was published in September 2016 (Mira). Her second
novel LITTLE SECRETS will be published November 2017 (Mira).
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
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