Review: Great promise that didn't deliver....
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 9, 2013
Secrets and Lies - (A Medical Suspense Thriller Novel) has a promising premise. Woman marries husband, loses husband, finds out she's pregnant and gets out there in attempt to love again. Life isn't always what it seems and perhaps the person with whom she's trying to rebuild isn't who he seems to be.  With the focus on Sharona and her struggle to rebuild her life, readers might have connected with her and followed her struggle. The premise was promising but the reality was disappointing. In many ways the story presented feels like an outline instead of a realized narrative.Secrets and Lies - (A Medical Suspense Thriller Novel) isn't really a suspense novel until the end but the end is pretty compelling. I won't give it away. There will be a second book to flesh out the suspense story-line but the authors make a pretty big move in their story development which gives the reader hope that good things are to come. There are some really outdated turns of phrase and I think perhaps the authors, neither of whom are American, wrote American characters in an attempt to appeal to that market when in fact writing what they know might have come of more naturally. There are grammatical and formatting errors that might be a hindrance to some readers. At the end of this novel I wondered if the authors were perhaps victims of over-editing their stories. If maybe they took out things that would enhance the read to keep the length down and direct the narrative.If you like quick reads, you might like Secrets and Lies - (A Medical Suspense Thriller Novel). The lack of meat in the story-line make it very easy to plow through in one sitting. This novel does have a number of very positive reviews on Amazon so check them out and see if this might be a work you'd enjoy though I didn't.