Review: Seven Dirty Secrets - Natalie D. Richards

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Seven Dirty Secrets

Review: Seven Dirty Secrets - Natalie D. Richards - November 2021

One of my favorite YA thriller writers is Natalie D. Richards, I find she is this generation's Christopher Pike and Lois Duncan. All three of these authors are famous for their slasher-type stories and revenge-filled thrillers. Think along the lines of movies like "I Know What You Did Last Summer" or "Valentine". The late 90's/ early to mid-2000's slasher films. In Seven Dirty Secrets, we meet seven friends who each are hiding a dark secret of their own as the seven of them a year ago went on a rafting wilderness trip, but only six returned home safe and sound. The seventh is said to have died. Seven Dirty Secrets takes place one year after the rafting trip and it is our main female character Cleo's birthday. Cleo is obsessed with forensics and mysteries and is hoping to get a scholarship to study forensics and she is hoping that no one will find out what happened a year ago as that could ruin her chances. On the day of her birthday, she wakes up and goes to have a shower and sees a white present box. Inside it is a clue to start a scavenger hunt, Cleo initially thinks it is a prank from her friends. But what will happen when she realizes that it is something more sinister as each clue is something that she used to do with her ex-boyfriend Declan and only she and he knew about it or so she thought. Someone out there is determined to make Cleo and her friends suffer and face the consequences of what went down on the rafting trip. If you love YA thrillers, then Natalie D. Richards is an author you need to add to your reading lists as you will not be disappointed.

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