Review: Tell Us No Secrets: A Novel – Siena Sterling

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This stunning debut thriller, set in a girls’ boarding school, will leave you breathless until the final page is turned.

Sometimes girls are the meanest of them all...

Female friendship is intense and that intensity can erupt into dangerous passions when teenage girls are cooped up in an exclusi...

This stunning debut thriller, set in a girls’ boarding school, will leave you breathless until the final page is turned.

Sometimes girls are the meanest of them all...

Female friendship is intense and that intensity can erupt into dangerous passions when teenage girls are cooped up in an exclusive East Coast boarding school.

Beautiful, streetwise Cassidy Thomas; debutante jock Abby Madison; academic, sensitive Karen Mullens; and sophisticated troublemaking Zoey Spalding are four seventeen-year-olds who should be cruising happily through their Senior Year. But jealousies are simmering. And when Zoey plays a game with the class list—if you lose your virginity you get a star beside your name—it sets in motion a chain of shocking events.

Nine months later, when one of the girls is murdered, the others must ask themselves if they can carry the truth of what happened the rest of their lives.

Tell Us No Secrets describes the bonds between these adolescent girls as well as the terrible pain of betrayal and the tragic consequences of peer pressure running riot at a time when the seismic shift of the Sixties changed the rules for everyone.

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Tell Us No Secrets was a very good “who did it” because of all the drama leading to the event. Four seventeen-year-old girls in a boarding house, trying to navigate this thing called life and doing what girls do at that age, up to a point. Sadly one of them goes too far, and it causes the “event” that they will carry with them throughout their lives and into their 60s. When a woman who was at the school shows up to say she doesn’t believe the stories that came out of the “event” and wants to do a documentary about it, this causes a “ut oh” moment. What will they do about it?

I am so happy I had a cup of coffee when I started reading this book because it was a page-turner for me, and it was very realistic about the behavior of teens, especially during the time set in the 70s. The book has twists and turns and an ending I didn’t see coming!

I will certainly read other books by this author, and I look forward to the next one!

Reviewed by: Linda C

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