The Secret Keeper - Kate Morton

The Secret Keeper is the second book I've ever read by Kate Morton. I read The House At Riverton a while back ago and feel completely in love with that book. I'm glad my grandmother told me that I should read this right away. If she hadn't borrowed it from me few month ago, then it might have taken some time before I would pick it up (got lots of other books to read so..). But here we are and I was not disappointed at all!

The Blurb:
1961: On a sweltering summer's day, while her family picnics by the stream on their Suffolk farm, sixteen-year-old Laurel hides out in her childhood tree house dreaming of the bright future she can't wait to seize. But before the idyllic afternoon is over, Laurel will have witnessed a shocking crime that changes everything.

2011: Now a much-loved actress, Laurel finds herself overwhelmed by shades of the past. Haunted by memories, and the mystery of what she saw that day, she returns to her family home and begins to piece together a secret history: a tale of three strangers from vastly different world - Dorothy, Vivien and Jimmy - who are brought together by chance in wartime London and whose lives become fiercely and fatefully entwined.

Shifting between the 1930s, the 1960s and the present, The Secret Keeper is a spellbinding story of mysteries and secrets, murder and enduring love.

My Thoughts:
One thing..: How am I going to review this without any spoilers?! This is not going to be easy, mind you but I will try my very best to not spoil anything important!

Ok, first of all, what a book! After finishing the first chapter, I was hooked! Unfortunately my eyes thought otherwise.. which was frustrating. The reason why it took me so, so long to finish this book was because my eyes got tired pretty much in the middle of every single chapters. No matter how thrilling that chapter was, my eyes could barely keep themselves up. Argh! Maybe because the text was small or something.. I don't know.

Despite my tired eyes, I loved this book as much as I loved The House at Riverton. It was suspenseful, thrilling and all in all a great book to curl up with on a rainy day (or weeks in my case).

The characters had their own personalities and you felt like you got to know them well. The shifting from past and present, and between the characters was well written and didn't feel "messy". I liked the way the stories from the past kind of blended with the things Laurel found in present time. I didn't have to wait long for the meaning behind those findings and it still made me wanting to find out more about the life of her mother and also the other people that was part of her life one way or another.

And that ending. That was a huge twist right there! I literally had tears in my eyes reading the last page. I really, really want to spoil it all but I won't do it. You just have to read it yourself!

That's all I'm going to say. If you want to know more then.. well.. read it! (You can also ask me or look up more reviews online :P )

Bye! xx

5/5

Next book to read: On the Other Side by Carrie Hope Fletcher

Oh look! More books!

Like I said last time, no more promises about not buying any more books for a while. So here we are :P

It was half price on everything at work Wednesday evening so I decided to buy some books (you know... because it was 50% off... can't miss those deals, can ya? :P ) and I also bought a book yesterday when I was at work..for uhm.. research..*ahem*. So this week I ended up buying 6 more books to add to my collection. Three of those are in Norwegian and they are also some of the books I don't mind reading in my language. That also mean that I won't be doing any review on those since, you know, they're in Norwegian :P

Steinhimmelen by Karin Brunk Holmqvist
Rosa Elefanter by Karin Brunk Holmqvist
Kaffe med Musikk by Karin Brunk Holmqvist
Six of Crows (#1, Six of Crows) by Leigh Barduco
I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh
Daughter by Jane Shemilt

Lots of things has happened these past few days with work and all so today I felt like I could sit down and write this blog post. I also finished The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton late last night so there will be one more post up pretty soon!


See ya!

Bye xx

When there's a sale online...

Here we are yet again... another book in my shelves. I'm officially done promising myself not to buy any more books for a while. It doesn't work. I give up.

So yes, there'a a sale on Bookdepository where you can buy books with up to 50% off! Yey! Of course I had to check that out when I got an email about this glorious bargain! I found 5 lovely books I wanted and added them to my 'cart' (also found out that some of the books I had bought in August/September-ish was 50% off as well...but hey! What can you do?!). After finishing my little "shopping-spree", I thought I had purchased them and didn't think any more about it, until I got an email last week(?).  They told me that my lovely books felt bit lonely and asked me if I wanted to keep them or not (something like that). I went back to the page (after checking both my email accounts for any confirmations on the purchase with no luck) and saw that 3 out of 5 of the books I wanted was now unavailable... I was sad, but I ended up only order the 2 books that was left from my previous attempt which was still available without really trying to find something else (I did look through the books, you know...just one last check). But, it doesn't stop there because few days later I got this in the mailbox:

"I am terribly sorry to inform you that on this occasion we have been unable to fulfil part of your order.

If your order was a pre-order unfortunately, information ahead of publication is not foolproof so a new title may be cancelled or postponed indefinitely. An edition scheduled for reprinting may be similarly abandoned by the publishers.

If you have ordered other titles, we will send you the remainder of your order immediately."

And the last part of the email:

"Again, please accept my apologies and I hope we can be of service to you in the near future."

So.. I ended up getting only 1 book out of 5, but it's OK because I already got so many I haven't read yet and I don't really mind even though I kinda wanted the book that got cancelled.

The last part of that email sounded so sad that I just want to give them a hug and tell them that I still love them and I will continue to buy books from Bookdepository. Why, you might ask? Because I love this page. The price is just perfect, they arrive pretty fast (and I live in Norway so that says something) and this is also the only time they have "messed up" my order. And I have ordered loads of books from there these past few years! So..

Dear Bookdepository,

I accept your apologies. I am not going to give you up because of this little problem. I will always love you and I know you will "fulfill" my "book-needs" whenever I want to go shopping. So thank you so much of being a part of my life and for being there when a girl needs to burn most of her money on more books even though she already has bought tons of books just few weeks previously. (You should probably put on some limit or something when someone buys more book than actually needed, knowing they won't be able to read all of them in their lifetime unless they got the same powers as The Flash)

Love from,
Me x

Ok.. back to the main reason of this blog post! The newest addition to my bookshelf! 

Before We Met by Lucie Whitehouse

I have been back and forth with this book, but when it was 50% off, I decided that I wanted to buy it after all :) After reading the "blurb" again, it did sound better than I remembered :P 

I have absolutely no idea what else to say.. I think I have already written enough about this whole book-shopping fail and troubles so.. But I can give you a quick update on the book I'm currently (still) reading since I'm already here :)

Currently reading update:

I'm still reading The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton. My grandmother told me I should read this one next and so I did. I got hooked from the beginning, but the saddest thing is is that I get really tired of reading it and ends up closing the book in the middle of the chapter (happens pretty much all the time :( ) It doesn't mean that it's bad, because, trust me.. it's not! It's really good and I hate myself for having those eyes that won't stay open when I'm in the middle of a chapter! I will finish it. I must! It will take some time but I will. So be patient with me! The review will come one day in the near future! 

Bye x

(I was supposed to finish this blog entry earlier today, but things got in the way. I'm sorry for the late update!)