Some secrets are not meant to be kept...
Tell No One
by Donna M. Zadunajsky
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Mia Barnes rubbed her fingers across the scars on her
wrists. No matter how hard she tried, she would never forget what happened to
her. The night her whole life changed. The night he took everything from her.
Judith Barnes couldn’t shake the vivid memories of that night. The night she
found her daughter near death. Since that day, all she wanted was to know why.
Why her daughter thought her life wasn’t worth living.
A story of family, love, and grief. How far will a mother go to find out the
truth? How far will a daughter go to hide it? What happens when the truth comes
out?
Review: It all began with an attempted suicide of a mother’s teen daughter. How could a certified psychiatrist not have seen the signs? That was the first part.
In part 2, we get the story from Mia and her attempted suicide. She mentions something about being told to “tell no one.” The whole time Mia was hoping to hide from “him.” Right away, we get a mystery right here.
Whatever intrigue I had for the story, however, quickly settles to a slow crawl in part 3, which re-hashes the family dynamic about 3 months in the past. It’s quite a long part, too. While reading this part, I kind of made a guess of who the “him” might be…and it turned out that my guess was right. Something did happen on that family vacation with “him.” After that, Mia couldn’t tell anyone what happened, especially her mom whom she was sure wouldn’t believe her. For a long while afterward, we deal with both mother and daughter battling with what they know and with their crushing guilt. It all boiled down to a sad, tame, and relatively satisfying conclusion.
It was a pretty good read, and I liked it.
Rating:
4 stars
Donna M. Zadunajsky started out writing children’s books
before she wrote and published her first novel, Broken Promises, in June 2012.
She since has written several more novels and her first novella, HELP ME! Book
1 in the series, which is about teen suicide and bullying.
Her third novel Family Secrets, “Secrets and Second
Chances”, which is first in a series she is writing, was given a publishing
contract through California Times Publishing.
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This was a great read!
ReplyDeleteSounds like a good thriller. Thanks for sharing.
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