Still the Queen of Women's Fiction

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	• The Secret Between Us Barbara Delinsky Doubleday, 2008 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 41 reviews view larger image
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AN INTRIGUING STORY

I'm a big fan of Barbara Delinsky. Her clean prose, her research which is always so seamlessly woven into her stories, her incorporation of setting, and her attention to detail are all skills I admire. In THE SECRET BETWEEN US she also manages to plant that question: what would I do in the same circumstances? Throughout the book I kept putting myself into Deborah's shoes and, even though I knew it would be just as wrong as Deborah's choice, I was certain I'd've made the same one. All that said, I couldn't give the book 5 stars because I wasn't as emotionally invested in the characters as I wished to be. And for me, that's the true test of a novel. Do I really care about the people in the story and am I rooting for them? The sad truth is, with THE SECRET BETWEEN US, I had no strong feelings either way. I understood what Deborah did, even agreed with it, but whatever happened to her and her daughter in the end simply didn't matter all that much to me.

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Good story, bad ending

I am a huge fan of Delinsky, but this book disappointed me. The story was good, about the relationship between mother and daughter, and about lying. But the ending was so contrived and "tidy" that it really angered and disappointed me for sticking with the book all the way through. The ending (I won't give it away here) was a very unfortunate and "easy" way to wrap up the storyline. Delinsky can do much, much better than this.

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thought provoking

I liked this book. As a parent, it made me think and rethink many things, and I was intrigued with the way the book played out. How do we ever know if we are doing the right thing?

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Still the Queen of Women's Fiction

I loved this story. Seemed quite realistic and still had some (believable) romance thrown in.
If you love Barbara Delinsky books, reading this one's a no-brainer :)

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