Review: LOVE this series....Love Charlie's story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 12, 2013
Truthfully, I was expecting this book to have a bit more of a suspense feel to it because of how things ended in Seductive Shadows. I was expecting to get more into how the mansion goes down, but Seductive Secrecy focuses more on Charlie and Cameron. This is not a bad thing at all, I loved it, but I really would have liked to have a little bit more on how all that went down. I feel like the events that take place for that particular event would be pretty huge deal for Charlie and her healing. We do find out bits and pieces of this information through out the book so it's not like we act like it never happened. If you are slightly confused as to what I am talking about then it is because I don't want to give away any spoilers, so if you have read Seductive Shadows then you likely know what I am talking about, if you have not read Seductive Shadows yet then what the heck are you waiting for?! You need to get a copy of that book now, seriously one of the best reads of 2013 for me.I love Charlie and Cameron for much of the same reasons I love all of my couples, they have a way of completing each other. Of helping the other person find the light in what they would assume is only a dark world. I love those stories, I think I will always love those stories and Marni Mann gives us a wonderful story about such a thing. Neither one of them really knows everything about each other's pasts, there is actually a lot that they don't know about each others pasts. What is important though is that they accept each other for who they are now, and who they are becoming. They love each other in spite of the scars their pasts have left on them. They know enough to know that they have each suffered and make it their missions to ease that suffering in any way possible. And some of those ways are pretty hot and sexy.Everyone has a story, everyone has a moment/period of time in their life when they move from what was, to what could be. This is the second half of Charlie's story, the half that takes her from what was to what could be. The half that forces her to face her fears and to live with the choices she has made and the consequences those choices bring. Both Charlie and Cameron have had hard pasts that they have done their best to over come. In hind sight they are realizing that while those choices have lead them to each other, they are not the only choices they have anymore. They can make more of life, find a way to leave the past in the past and make a future together.I seriously love Marni Mann and the way she writes. Everything she writes has a way of getting under my skin. A way of causing me to feel what it is the characters are feeling, to get me caught up in their world and experience what they experience. There is a twist at the end that took me by surprise. I had no idea what to expect at that dinner, well actually I had a theory of what could happen. I had happily ever after for two sets of couples but that all went crazy really quick. I was reading as fast as my eyes would let me to try and get through it to see how it all played out. I don't want you to think this is not a happily ever after story because it is, just not for everyone. The Shadows series is one of my favorite series reads of 2013. It was gritty and different and kept my attention the entire time. I very much look forward to reading more from Marni Mann in the future.