Wow. What a book! Little Secrets is a shining example of a domestic thriller. It’s been sixteen months since Marin and Derek’s son Sebastian was abducted, and Marin is now faced with another harsh reality - her husband is having an affair with a 24 year old Art student. The saying goes that, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” and this book truly explores the depth of that idiom.
Little Secrets is a painfully realistic take on the sense of loss felt by parents following the disappearance of a child, and albeit it painful to read at times, it solidifies the readers ability to empathize with the main characters. My heart was bleeding for Marin, especially, and I was taken on a whole rollercoaster of emotions with regards to Derek!
Her husband’s affair takes Marin along dark paths, which in a more level-headed headspace (and without a missing child tugging on her soul), she would never have imagined herself capable of such actions. Marin is damned that she’s not going to lose her husband as well as her child, and the book plays out through her need to avenge her fate, and seek a way of erasing the threat of the other woman - permanently.
Interestingly, this story is told from the first-person perspective of both Derek’s wife, and his mistress, but we never see the turn of events from his perspective. Hilliers’ character development is spot-on, and I can feel that I’m going to have a bit of a book hangover with this one!
Little Secrets had me entranced from the off, and it proved to be a thoroughly wonderful addiction, right up until the very last word. A twisty, turny and fantastic thriller - based on elements of real life that we all fear to some degree (infidelity and child abduction), which makes this a story in which we can all ask ourselves, “what would we do in Marin’s situation?”.
In terms of the plot, this storyline contained several unexpected twists, which I did not see coming at all. Yet, looking back over the book in retrospect, we see that Hillier has carefully entwined all the subplots throughout, and we find ourselves having many “lightbulb moments” when the subplots come together towards the end of the book.
I would recommend this book to all readers, as I think we all have something to learn from the underlying moral compass of this story. And given the gravity of the subject matter, I think most people would find this book incredibly thrilling, right from the off.
Little Secrets is a painfully realistic take on the sense of loss felt by parents following the disappearance of a child, and albeit it painful to read at times, it solidifies the readers ability to empathize with the main characters. My heart was bleeding for Marin, especially, and I was taken on a whole rollercoaster of emotions with regards to Derek!
Her husband’s affair takes Marin along dark paths, which in a more level-headed headspace (and without a missing child tugging on her soul), she would never have imagined herself capable of such actions. Marin is damned that she’s not going to lose her husband as well as her child, and the book plays out through her need to avenge her fate, and seek a way of erasing the threat of the other woman - permanently.
Interestingly, this story is told from the first-person perspective of both Derek’s wife, and his mistress, but we never see the turn of events from his perspective. Hilliers’ character development is spot-on, and I can feel that I’m going to have a bit of a book hangover with this one!
Little Secrets had me entranced from the off, and it proved to be a thoroughly wonderful addiction, right up until the very last word. A twisty, turny and fantastic thriller - based on elements of real life that we all fear to some degree (infidelity and child abduction), which makes this a story in which we can all ask ourselves, “what would we do in Marin’s situation?”.
In terms of the plot, this storyline contained several unexpected twists, which I did not see coming at all. Yet, looking back over the book in retrospect, we see that Hillier has carefully entwined all the subplots throughout, and we find ourselves having many “lightbulb moments” when the subplots come together towards the end of the book.
I would recommend this book to all readers, as I think we all have something to learn from the underlying moral compass of this story. And given the gravity of the subject matter, I think most people would find this book incredibly thrilling, right from the off.