Book Review: Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier

Book: 51/100

Rating: 4.5/5

This one is my new go to thriller recommendation!

Summary: Marin had the perfect life. Married to her college sweetheart, she owns a chain of upscale hair salons, and Derek runs his own company. They're admired in their community and are a loving family. Up until the day Sebastian is taken.

A year later, Marin is a shadow of herself. The FBI search has gone cold. The publicity has faded. She and her husband rarely speak. The only thing keeping her going is the unlikely chance that one day Sebastian reappears. She hires a P.I. to pick up where the police left off, but instead of finding him, she discovers that Derek is having an affair with a younger woman.

Kenzie Li is an artist and grad student—Instagram famous—and up to her eyeballs in debt. She knows Derek is married. She also knows he's rich, and dating him comes with perks: help with bills, trips away, expensive gifts. He isn't her first rich boyfriend, but she finds herself hoping he'll be the last. She's falling for him—and that was never part of the plan.

Discovery of the affair sparks Marin back to life. She's lost her son; she's not about to lose her husband, too. Kenzie is an enemy with a face, which means this is a problem Marin canfix. But as she sets a plan in motion, more revelations surface...

Thoughts: This was not your typical kidnapping thriller. I loved all of the layers to this one. It took me a few chapters to get into because it's been a while since I've read a third person narrated story, but after that I was hooked, Towards the end of the book, I did have an inkling of who was responsible for some things, but I thought the unraveling of the reveal was so well done. With thrillers, I find that so often the ending is either super predictable or the 'whodunnit' comes so out of left field it's not believable, There was a great twist and ending to this one. The writing was gripping and I think this will be my next go to thriller recommendation! Thanks to Netgalley and St. Martin's Press for the eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Buy it/loan it/skip it? Buy this one!