Review: Secrets and terrible secrets
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 29, 2013
Please leave comments on Lucky's 4 1/2 sweet pea review at mrsconditreadsbooks.com/index.php/?p=13418Noah's life used to be idyllic. He had his father, whom he adored, and his best friend Phoenix, whom he loved with his whole heart. When his father dies, he needed his best friend, but Phoenix pulled away from him. When Noah went to see Phoenix, he's given the bit of news that shatters his world. Phoenix is dead.Noah is pulled away from town and goes to live with his mother and step-father, but his life is never the same. An accident injures his body, and that matches his shattered spirit. Now with his birthday coming up, he returns home to fulfill a promise he made to his best friend. His first stop is the diner where Gracie pulls him back in and just like that (snaps fingers) Noah is back again. Without Phoenix, though, it will never be his home.Gracie tells Noah to take a ride tomorrow out to the old silver mine. She won't tell him why, just that he needs to do it. He says he will. He can't wait to find out and drives out only to find nothing there. He comes back to town and stops at the bar where his life is spun on its axis as one secret is revealed that changes his life.Many other secrets will be revealed before the story is over. One of them was so terrible that I cringed when I read it. Be prepared to feel revulsion for another human being on a cellular level when you find out what happened the night Phoenix died.