‘All My Secrets’ by Sophie McKenzie

Teenage fiction: a recommendation from one of my students. She even brought the book in for me to borrow, so I had to read it.

I’ve read Sophie McKenzie books on the past, ‘Girl, Missing’ for example, great piece of teenage fiction: pretty basic plot line, tense and exciting, great for teenagers. This book was no different.

This book is aimed at female teenagers and has everything they would love:

• Evie is set to inherit a lot of money
• She has parent issues
• She gets sent to an island for troubled teens
• She falls in love with two very different boys, and can’t choose between them
• Spoiler alert: she ‘wins’ in the end

It also has everything that would drive an adult crazy:

• Evie makes ridiculous decisions
• Evie’s jumps to ridiculous conclusions
• A tree that somehow blocks an entire route to somewhere meaning they have to take an impossible route
• An evil housekeeper
• Two boys, both handsome yet flawed in completely opposite ways
• Only means of escape is through water, and she can’t swim
• Lots of stormy nights
• Evie always does exactly what you expect she would, including: chasing someone, running away, believing everyone and crying a lot

So there you have it, standard teenage fiction.