The Secret Between Us | Barbara Delinsky

The Secret Between Us | Barbara Delinsky | Electrifying!

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The Secret Between Us

	The Secret Between Us Barbara Delinsky Doubleday, 2008 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 47 reviews view larger image
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Wow, Barbara!

In going "out of your element" here, you made a giant leap forward, and I love it! This was a great read. It took me only 2 nights to devour and I left the 'meal' feeling quite satisfied. Thanks, dear.
"Funny Feline Fotos" author, Anna Marie Fritz.

Electrifying!

"We love Barbara Delinksky's novels. When a mother tries to protect her daughter, she makes a choice that will have consequences for years to come and Delinsky weaves a plot with electrifying consequences for both women."

AN INTRIGUING STORY

I'm a big fan of Barbara Delinsky. Her clean prose, her research which is always so seamlessly woven into her stories, her incorporation of setting, and her attention to detail are all skills I admire. In THE SECRET BETWEEN US she also manages to plant that question: what would I do in the same circumstances? Throughout the book I kept putting myself into Deborah's shoes and, even though I knew it would be just as wrong as Deborah's choice, I was certain I'd've made the same one. All that said, I couldn't give the book 5 stars because I wasn't as emotionally invested in the characters as I wished to be. And for me, that's the true test of a novel. Do I really care about the people in the story and am I rooting for them? The sad truth is, with THE SECRET BETWEEN US, I had no strong feelings either way. I understood what Deborah did, even agreed with it, but whatever happened to her and her daughter in the end simply didn't matter all that much to me.

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Good story, bad ending

I am a huge fan of Delinsky, but this book disappointed me. The story was good, about the relationship between mother and daughter, and about lying. But the ending was so contrived and "tidy" that it really angered and disappointed me for sticking with the book all the way through. The ending (I won't give it away here) was a very unfortunate and "easy" way to wrap up the storyline. Delinsky can do much, much better than this.

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