High School Fiction
F/A Leaver, Trisha. The Secrets We Keep. Farrar,
Straus and Giroux, 2015. 304p. 978-0374300463. 17.99
When identical twins
Maddy and Ella are involved in a deadly car accident, Ella was driving Maddy’s
car. When she wakes up in the hospital, everyone thinks that she is Maddy and
that Ella died in the crash. Ella is confused and doesn’t bother to correct
anyone, instead she decides that she will just be Maddy from now on, thinking
that everyone loved her more anyway. Little does she know that Maddy has some
secrets that even Ella didn’t know about. But how long can Ella pretend to be someone that clearly she is not? The premise is frustrating because
it’s so unlikely that she could keep up the façade (and why would she want to),
but the writing is decent. Teens will love it, even if it’s not exactly
plausible. Loren Spector, LAPL, Memorial Branch
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