By Trisha Leaver
Farrow, Strauss & Giroux, 2015
It’s hard to review this novel without spoilers so watch for
the alert.
SECRETS is an emotional contemporary YA with themes of devotion between sisters, divisions within family, and the conflict of
teen identity crises. I rated this a B+.
Ella’s character and story are deep
and well presented. Some of it is a little beyond realistic but that’s why we
call it fiction.
Polar-opposite identical twin sisters Maddy and Ella are in
a car accident. Maddy is wearing Ella’s coat when she dies. Ella survives but
wakes with no memory of who she is. Everyone believes she is Maddy; the super-perfect,
popular girl everyone loves. Ella soon figures it out but decides to be Maddy
because that’s who everyone around her wants her to be.
SPOILER ALERT: But when Ella discovers a dark secret about
Maddy. She decides she owes it to Maddy to right her wrong. And now she knows
it’s okay to be Ella, flawed and alive; after all, Maddy wasn’t perfect.
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