Ellery's mother is from a small town called Echo Ridge. Ellery
has never been there but, she heard about it. Her aunt went missing
when she was seventeen. Five years later, a homecoming queen was
murdered at a local amusement park. Now Ellery and her brother, Ezra has
to move to Echo Ridge to live with their maternal grandmother they
barely know.
Even
the small picture-perfect town is hiding secrets. In a memorial service
before school begins, there was an ominous message about homecoming
becoming deadly as it was five years ago. Shortly after the message
appears, a girl goes missing.
Ellery
knows all about people keeping secrets. Her mother and grandmother are
keeping secrets too. The longer she spends in Echo Ridge, the more she
realizes that everyone is hiding something. She realizes that someone
is willing to kill to keep their secret quiet. Will Ellery be able to
find out what happened to her aunt years ago?
I usually like reading novels like these because they usually have unexpected twists and delicious secrets. I was saddened when the story was predictable except for a portion of the ending. On a side note, while I did enjoy the novel, I found that
there was a lot of characters and the ages were a bit confusing to me.
For example, Ellery's mother and the other students are the same age
but, the other students have younger siblings who are the same age as
Ellery and Ezra. This was hard for me to grasp and conceptualize. I
wish there was a timeline of ages and past events as this would have
made some of the story easier to follow along. Overall, a fun read for
people who love novels with "small towns with deadly secrets".
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About the Book:
Title: TWO CAN KEEP A SECRET
Author: Karen McManus
Pub. Date: January 8, 2019
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Formats: Hardcover, eBook, Audiobook
Pages: 336
Echo Ridge is small-town America. Ellery's never been there, but she's heard all about it. Her aunt went missing there at age seventeen. And only five years ago, a homecoming queen put the town on the map when she was killed. Now Ellery has to move there to live with a grandmother she barely knows.
The town is picture-perfect, but it's hiding secrets. And before school even begins for Ellery, someone's declared open season on homecoming, promising to make it as dangerous as it was five years ago. Then, almost as if to prove it, another girl goes missing.
Ellery knows all about secrets. Her mother has them; her grandmother does too. And the longer she's in Echo Ridge, the clearer it becomes that everyone there is hiding something. The thing is, secrets are dangerous--and most people aren't good at keeping them. Which is why in Echo Ridge, it's safest to keep your secrets to yourself.
About Karen:
As a kid I used to write books when I was supposed to be playing outside, and not much has changed. I'm a marketing and communications professional who also writes Young Adult contemporary and fantasy fiction in Cambridge, MA.
When not writing or working I love to travel, and along with my nine-year old son I've ridden horses in Colombia and bicycles through Paris. A member of SCBWI, I hold a bachelor’s degree in English from the College of the Holy Cross and a master’s degree in Journalism from Northeastern University. Which I have never, ever used professionally.
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