Week 19 Review: Seven Dirty Secrets

From Goodreads:

I know seven secrets:

One caused the fall. One did nothing. One saw it all.

One didn't care. One used their head. One played the hero.

One was left for dead.

On her eighteenth birthday, Cleo receives a mysterious invitation to a scavenger hunt. She's sure her best friend Hope or her brother Connor is behind it, but no one confesses. And as Cleo and Hope embark on the hunt, the seemingly random locations and clues begin to feel familiar.

In fact, all of the clues seem to be about Cleo's dead boyfriend, Cyrus, who drowned on a group rafting trip exactly a year ago. A bracelet she bought him. A song he loved. A photo of the rafting group, taken just before Cyrus drowned. And then the phone calls start, Cyrus's voice taunting Cleo with a cryptic question: You ready?

As the clock on the scavenger hunt ticks down, it becomes clear that someone knows what really happened to Cyrus. And that person will stop at nothing to make sure Cleo and her friends pay. Can they solve the hunt before someone else winds up dead?

My Review:
This was another really great mystery! I really enjoy the stories that Natalie D. Richards tells, they're so intriguing, and I want to know all of what is going on, and this was just as good! It was fast paced, and I had to know what was going on!

Last year, Cleo's boyfriend died on a trip, right after her birthday. It's now a year later, and she's sent on this scavenger hunt of clues, each one leading to the next. But there's something sinister about it all, from how it was left in her bathroom-while she was in the shower, and the way the notes are pretty threatening.

Oh, and how all of these locations that the clues are leading to, are places that are significant to her and the boyfriend who died. Which as the book progresses, we find out more about their relationship, like the fact that he was abusive. And what happened that night.

That ending though? That was so unexpected, and devastating, to find out who was behind it all! But it really worked! I just wish we could've had a bit more time of the aftermath, it was so short, and I would've liked a bit more! 

This was a really great read, and I can't wait to read more by Natalie D. Richards! 

Author: Natalie D. Richards
Read: May 9th, 2023 
Source: NetGalley/Bought
Reason Why: Love her writing and it sounded really great, and it's a SAC 2023 Book and a WoW Book!
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Published: November 2nd 2021

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars