‘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.
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