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Seven Dirty Secrets by Natalie D. Richards Published by Sourcebooks Fire on 11/2/21
Genres: Contemporary, Mystery & Detective, Thrillers, Young Adult
Pages: 267
Format: Paperback
Source: Reviewer Purchase
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I know seven dirty secrets:
One caused the fall. One did nothing. One saw it all.
One didn't care. One used their head. One played the hero.
One was left for dead.
On her eighteenth birthday, Cleo receives a mysterious invitation to a scavenger hunt. She's sure her best friend Hope or her brother Connor is behind it, but no one confesses. And as Cleo and Hope embark on the hunt, the seemingly random locations and clues begin to feel familiar.
In fact, all of the clues seem to be about Cleo's dead boyfriend, Declan, who drowned on a group rafting trip exactly a year ago. A bracelet she bought him. A song he loved. A photo of the rafting group, taken just before Declan drowned. And then the phone calls start, Declan's voice taunting Cleo with a cryptic question: You ready?
As the clock on the scavenger hunt ticks down, it becomes clear that someone knows what really happened to Declan. And that person will stop at nothing to make sure Cleo and her friends pay. Can they solve the hunt before someone else winds up dead?
Short and Sweet Review
Last year on Cleo’s 17th birthday her and a group of friends went on a rafting trip where her ex-boyfriend Declan drowned. This year on Cleo’s 18th birthday someone sends her a scavenger hunt which insinuates that someone knows that something more happened on that trip than Cleo and her friends are admitting.
The book starts off on Cleo’s 18th birthday and she discovers a mysterious gift that none of her friends have given her and in the gift is clues it’s basically a long scavenger hunt. This scavenger hunt sets Cleo on edge because the clues are places that were important to her and Declan. We see flashbacks and learn a lot about Cleo and Declan’s relationship, unfortunately there was domestic violence. It was interesting to see Cleo and her friend Hope follow the clues and try to figure out who could be behind everything. This book reminded me of I Know What You Did Last Summer, where someone dies and someone saw and wants revenge. Cleo was an okay character she was kind of naive, but I did like how determined she was to solve the mystery and keep her friends safe.
This book was okay it was kind of predictable and Cleo found herself in some dangerous situations. The ending was okay everything was wrapped up and explained and it really did remind me of the book I Know What You Did Last Summer, there were a lot of similarities.
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