All Your Twisted Secrets by Diana Urban

All Your Twisted Secrets

by Diana Urban

A thrilling debut, reminiscent of new fan favorites like One of Us Is Lying and the beloved classics by Agatha Christie, that will leave readers guessing until the explosive ending.

“Welcome to dinner, and again, congratulations on being selected. Now you must do the selecting.”

What do the queen bee, star athlete, valedictorian, stoner, loner, and music geek all have in common? They were all invited to a scholarship dinner, only to discover it’s a trap. Someone has locked them into a room with a bomb, a syringe filled with poison, and a note saying they have an hour to pick someone to kill...or else everyone dies.

Amber Prescott is determined to get her classmates and herself out of the room alive, but that might be easier said than done. No one knows how they’re all connected or who would want them dead.

As they retrace the events over the past year that might have triggered their captor’s ultimatum, it becomes clear that everyone is hiding something.

And with the clock ticking down, confusion turns into fear, and fear morphs into panic as they race to answer the biggest question: Who will they choose to die?

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4.5*

I have seen All Your Twisted Secrets compared to some very fabulous media, namely The Breakfast Club and One of Us is Lying. And do I think the comparison is accurate? Yep, and I'll even do one better and say I think this book combines the best part of both of those, and makes it into a new, even better story. Yeah I said it.

Because the thing that is so genius about this book is that it is literal life and death. So yeah you're absolutely entertained by the characters' stories and secrets, but like, someone might die, too! When you add that all together, it's completely and utterly unputdownable.

And I can't tell you much about this book, for the obvious reasons, so I will keep it short and sweet. We travel between past and present, unraveling the characters' lives secret by secret until the reader finally comes to understand how and why they all ended up in this death trap together. I cared so much about all of them, even the ones I didn't like, because I was so invested in finding out all the answers.

The only thing keeping me from rating this as perfect is that I would have liked an epilogue, or perhaps the ending itself to be a bit more fleshed out. But that is just one flaw among a sea of positives, so don't let that deter you! This book is well worth the ride.

Bottom Line: So engaging and entertaining, I simply had to keep reading to unravel all the secrets!

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  • 4 March, 2020: Reviewed