What was once an interesting part of Sawyer’s story became doltish and obnoxious as it became EVERYONE’S story in book two. I know we’re supposed to view this group of people as full of dirty secrets, but am I really supposed to believe there are THIS many parentage scandals in one community?!

I enjoyed the first book in this series and didn’t mind the parentage questions about Sawyer that occurred because it was just one part of the plot and also fundamentally important to Sawyer’s identity.īut in this book, it seems that almost everyone is a baby switched at birth, or an adult pretending to be someone else, or an illegitimate/bought on the black market/bastard baby. Unfortunately, it’s also a convoluted, difficult to follow mess, and fraught with all sorts of absurd soap opera elements that are too ridiculous to be believed and irritating to slog through.

I’ll say this for Deadly Little Scandals: It certainly keeps you compulsively turning those pages. National Enquirer headlines, or plot points from this book? Secret identical sisters who switch places! Illegitimate children! Black market babies! Several dozen other murky parentage plot lines! This review can also be found at A Take From Two Cities. ** I received an ARC from NetGalley and the publisher (thank you!) in exchange for an honest review. I have no idea if this is the final book in the series or if there's more to come - because things did kind of follow a natural conclusion and close the book on all the scandals - but if so. I would definitely recommend this for fans of Pretty Little Liars and, even if that's not your thing at all, but you still like tightly packed twisty stories with strong characters, you'll dig this, too. ' At this point, I could literally become a porn star, and I still wouldn't be the real scandal in this family.' The predictable pacing of a typical kind of mystery doesn't really apply here.

Not too devastating and yet packing the right kind of punch for you to feel the rollercoaster without being too numb from all the wow moments.īarnes keeps you guessing all the way through, and even leaves reveals almost to the very last chapter, and I think that adds to the fun. The hijinks are a little less light hearted and yet the way things resolved, and didn't, felt. But definitely not how far things will go or the surprises that are in store. And also as long you read book one, and I don't know why you'd skip it, you'll be prepared for the kind of unreal and unbelievable things. That said, things do veer towards the unreal and unbelievable but honestly it was still a really fun time. If I thought the first book in this series was wild, I didn't know anything.

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