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The Blurb On The Back:

At Whisper Cove,
what the sea wants,
the sea will have

When Avril was a child, her mother drowned at Whisper Cove. Local legend claims that the women in the waves called her into the ocean with their whispering.

Now Avril is seventeen and as she investigates what happened all those years ago, Whisper Cove reveals itself to her. Distances shift in the strange fog. Echoes of the past rebound from the ocean. And Avril is sure she’s met Cole - the gorgeous but disturbed boy she can’t seem to keep away from - late at night at the edge of the ocean.

The truth Avril seeks is ready to be discovered. But will come at a terrible cost.

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The Verdict:

Ginny Myers Sain’s paranormal YA thriller is a slow-paced affair populated with generic characters (with the exception of Avril) structured around a central play that simply didn’t convince me as being something so extraordinary as to be Tony Award winning. Worse, the twists (with one exception) are telegraphed too early and the paranormal elements too wishy-washy. It isn’t a bad book, but it did struggle to hold my attention.

SECRETS SO DEEP was released in the United Kingdom on 29th September 2022. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

The Blurb On The Back:

A missing girl.
A town full of psychics.
A secret that won’t stay buried …

Seventeen-year-old Grey returns to La Cachette, Louisiana - the small town where she grew up - every summer. But this time is different. Grey’s best friend Elora has been missing for months.

When Grey discovers a connection between Elora’s disappearance and a pair of grisly murders thirteen years earlier, she realises she can’t trust anyone. Not her grandmother; nor her childhood love, and least of all the stormy-eyed boy who emerges from the bayou. Magic and secrets fester beneath the surface of La Cachette and its dark and shallow lies are about to blow the town apart …

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The Verdict:

Ginny Myers Sain’s debut YA paranormal thriller is an absorbing read with strong first person narration and a Southern gothic vibe. I believed in Grey and Elora’s relationship, Grey’s reaction to learning La Cachette’s dark past and the psychic elements but the obligatory YA love triangle is unconvincing, I wanted to see more of all the Summer Children and the pace sags at times. That said it held my attention and I’d read Sain’s next book.

DARK AND SHALLOW LIES was released in the United Kingdom on 2nd September 2021. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.