Review: Book 1 in a series of novellas. Funny, sassy, smart, quirky, light, sexy, heartbreaking & intriguing.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 22, 2014
LOVED IT! This book sets up the tone, the characters and their backstories and I can't wait to see where it goes from here. I'm not sure how many books will be in the series but her serials (except for The Arrangement) tend to be 5 book series.I am drawn to H.M. Ward's writting style. In just few simple sentences, using so little words, you feel like you KNOW her characters and she can make you love or hate them and she can have you all teary eyed one moment and laughing out loud the next. Which was the case for me while reading Secrets & Lies. I loved the vibrant feel to this story. Set in a college setting, this book has a much younger and lighter feel to it than some of her other darker and somber series. There are tons of amazing secondary characters and the dialog between them had me stitches. The use of modern day urban vernacular is hysterical, as always. I like that her main female characters are not stick figures. It's not only the hot skinny model type women that get the hot guy! Men love curves! :-)A new adult contemporary romance with sexual content, it's supposedly a Ferro family series yet it is still unclear from volume 1 as to when and where this series fits in the timeline and lineage of the existing Ferro books. H.M. Ward is not one to give away information freely in her books. By the time you finish an H.M. Ward book, you usually end up having more questions than answers, as is the case with Secrets & Lies. Each Ferro family series can be read seperately as stand alone series.I received a complimentary copy for an honest review (and yes, this is my honest review)