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Secrets [Kindle Edition]

Lynne Barrett-Lee
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Romance and intrigue from best-selling Cardiff author, Lynne Barrett-Lee

Sisters Megan and Ffion have never had secrets, so when Megan goes to flat-sit all she's expecting is a rest and a change.

When a stranger called Jack phones, Megan wonders who he is. Ffion behaves like she's just seen a ghost, and refuses to say any more.

So is Jack a ghost?

Ffion's not telling and when she disappears too, the mystery deepens. Megan begins to fear for the future. She's always been the one who's looked after her little sister.

Is this going to be the one time she can't?

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Sisters Megan and Ffion have never had secrets, so when Megan goes to flat-sit all she's expecting is a rest and a change. When a stranger called Jack phones, Megan wonders who he is. Ffion behaves like she's just seen a ghost, and refuses to say any more. So is Jack a ghost? Ffion's not telling and when she disappears too, and the mystery deepens. Megan begins to fear for the future. She's always been the one who's looked after her little sister. Is this going to be the one time she can't?

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 116 KB
  • Print Length: 112 pages
  • Publisher: Accent Press (21 July 2012)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B008NX8FNK
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Not Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #88,401 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Gripping 16 Feb 2007
By Mrs
Format:Paperback
I really enjoyed this book - I wanted to know more about the relationship between Megan and Ffion. It's always good to have a happy ending!
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1.0 out of 5 stars Should This Be A Short Story? 10 Aug 2006
Format:Paperback
The blurb on the back of the book gives the impression that this is a mystery although the only mystery that I could find was why it was every published in the first place.

The story's predictable and quite honestly, little more than a short story that's been padded out in order to fill the required 96 pages of large type. Hardly what you'd call a novel and while I realise that this is one of a series designed to bring books to emergent or infrequent readers, I really can't help asking whether it was really worth it. If I'd never read a book before and was handed this, I'd really wonder why on earth people ever bothered.

Ms Barrett-Lee's characters were two-dimensional, there was no sense of place and the story itself held absolutely nothing unexpected. I don't blame the author entirely, though. I just think it's a shame she accepted the offer to be part of this series because, as a first time reader of hers, it certainly hasn't inspired me to look for more of her work. From about one third of the way in, I just kept thinking "get on with it". Shame.

Buy a decent women's magazine for less a pound instead, and get at least a handful of short stories that are generally better paced and actually have surprising twists.

Unless you're learning to read and aren't interested in the story as much as being able to understand words, this is definitely not worth bothering with.
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Amazon.com: 3.0 out of 5 stars  1 review
3.0 out of 5 stars Weak Revelations for What Was Setting Up to be an Interesting Secret of Who is Jack? 20 Mar 2011
By James N Simpson - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
Secrets by Lynne Barrett-Lee starts off okay, Megan, an older sister whose always been overprotective of her younger sister Ffion, agrees to babysit Emily, Ffion's daughter and their dog while Fion, goes on a business trip. However when a phone call leaves an incomplete message for her sister from a guy named Jack, and Megan can't cure her busybodiness due to the fact Jack has a private number which Ffion's phone company doesn't allow the redial last caller function, Megan decides to call her sister. Her sister is obviously shocked this guy has called but refuses to go into details of who he is. When Ffion's ex comes to pick up Emily, and Megan mentions Jack, he says he doesn't know who he is, even though it's obvious he's lying.

With the title of the book being Secrets, you're kind of expecting some big secrets or at least one. There's a predictable minor one, which I won't give away but after setting the reader up for something, the story never delivers. You're hoping for Jack to be some kind of serial killer, blackmailer or something interesting, but nope. The short story also finishes with a pointless sudden romance for Megan, almost as if the author didn't know how to end the story any other way.

Secrets is part of the Quick Reads series of books to increase literacy levels by encouraging those who don't like to read beyond magazines and comic books to try fiction through cheap priced short story length fiction and non fiction. The problem with Secrets is I don't think it would encourage readers who don't read much fiction to pick up other books. Like various short story author anthology collection, some of these quick read short story books are really good, and others like this one are pretty average.
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