Two Can Keep a Secret

Karen M. McManus

2019 • 323 pages

Ratings107

Average rating3.7

Echo Ridge is small-town America. Ellery's never been there, but she's heard all about it. Her aunt went missing there at age seventeen. And only five years ago, a homecoming queen put the town on the map when she was killed. Now Ellery has to move there to live with a grandmother she barely knows.

The town is picture-perfect, but it's hiding secrets. And before school even begins for Ellery, someone's declared open season on homecoming, promising to make it as dangerous as it was five years ago. Then, almost as if to prove it, another girl goes missing.

Ellery knows all about secrets. Her mother has them; her grandmother does too. And the longer she's in Echo Ridge, the clearer it becomes that everyone there is hiding something. The thing is, secrets are dangerous--and most people aren't good at keeping them. Which is why in Echo Ridge, it's safest to keep your secrets to yourself.

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Minki

extremely underwhelming.
could not tell the characters apart from one another and they all had no personality.

Spoilers ahead but not really, just vague stuff about the plot twist

the plot twist wasn't predictable, I didn't guess who it was but I would've rather it had been because when it was revealed who did it.. so underwhelming.
It could've of been any other person and it would've been fine but really? boring.

March 2, 2021

Kate Mester

Serviceable murder thriller, not as twisty as her first book. The payoff didn't feel very earned, but think teens will like this. As a side note, I'm SO OVER the stereotype of 80 year old librarians falling asleep on the job so that a character can come in to a (public, in this case) library to look at a book in secret. It's lazy and hackneyed writing and just dumb at this point in YA.

March 31, 2019

sam <3

I actually really liked this book and no one is more surprised than me at this fucking miracle.
This book was...much funnier than I expected it to be. Unexpected would be a good word to describe it, actually. Sure, it was also at times predictable and seemed to follow the formula that a lot of YA thrillers follow, but I'm not really complaining.
My one criticism would be that I wish I'd connected to the characters a bit more, but other than that, this book was like a fresh breath of air in that you need to experience it to enjoy it (duh). It was also really diverse which I'm happy about and it does talk about the privileges cis-het white men enjoy, that I really fucking loved. Oh, and the last line made me gasp out loud.
Overall, a really solid thriller!

August 3, 2021