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| Categories | Genre Fiction |
| Author | Freida McFadden |
| Publisher | Independently published (January 18, 2021) |
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 397 pages |
| Item Weight | 15.2 ounces |
| Dimensions |
5 x 0.9 x 8 inches |
I. Book introduction
Want to Know a Secret? by Freida McFadden is a twisty mystery thriller that keeps you guessing non-stop. The story centers around April, a seemingly innocent baker and YouTuber, whose life starts to unravel as she becomes the target of someone with a dark agenda. But, as the truth slowly unravels, readers are in for a shocking revelation about who April truly is.
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Everyone has secrets.
YouTube baking sensation April Masterson knows the secret to the perfect gooey brownies. Or how to make key lime squares that will melt in your mouth. But if you keep watching her offline, you may find out some other secrets about April. Secrets she’d rather you didn’t know.
Like where did her son go when he snuck out of the house? What was she doing with the local soccer coach behind fogged windows?
And what’s buried in her backyard?
Everyone has secrets. Some are worse than others.
April’s secrets are enough to destroy her.
I’ll make sure of that.
About the Author (Freida McFadden)
Freida McFadden is the pen name of an American thriller author and practicing physician specializing in brain injury who has penned multiple bestselling psychological thrillers and medical humor novels. Freida’s work has been selected as one of Amazon Editors’ best books of the year, she is the winner of the International Thriller Writers Award for best paperback, and she is a Goodreads Choice Award winner. Her novels have been translated into 40 languages. These include the Housemaid series (The Housemaid (2022), The Housemaid’s Secret (2023), and The Housemaid is Watching (2024)) and standalone novels such as Never Lie (2022), The Coworker (2023), Ward D (2023), and The Teacher (2024)). She is a New York Times bestselling author and has won the International Thriller Writers Award for best paperback.
From New York City, McFadden attended Harvard University as an undergraduate. She practices medicine in the Boston area. McFadden self-published her first book through Amazon KDP in 2013. Her 2022 book The Housemaid was an international bestseller. A movie adaptation of the book is set to be adapted for Lionsgate with Rebecca Sonnenshine to pen the screenplay, and Hidden Pictures’ Todd Lieberman and Alex Young to produce.
Freida McFadden lives with her family and black cat in a centuries-old three-story home overlooking the ocean, with staircases that creak and moan with each step, and nobody could hear you if you scream. Unless you scream really loudly, maybe.
II. Reviewer: Want to Know a Secret? by Freida McFadden
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1. NINA reviews for Want to Know a Secret?
McFadden is the queen of suspense. She manages to keep you on your toes, grabbing your attention whether you want to or not. Her characters might sometimes be a bit more fleshed out, but with short psychological thrillers I don’t mind that you get right down to it. I didn’t like the final twist, it wasn’t necessary in my opinion and a bit far-fetched. But other than that I liked the twist and turns.
2. SUE reviews for Want to Know a Secret?
WANT TO KNOW A SECRET? is a psychological thriller by bestselling author Freida McFadden.
This is the seventh book I have read from this author, and having loved her novels, I was eager to start reading Want To Know A Secret? As an avid reader of psychological thrillers, I can only say, treat yourself and read all of her books! Her books are so good!
Her Standalone Books Include:
- Baby City (2015)
- The Surrogate Mother (2018) (Read)
- The Ex (2019) (Read)
- The Perfect Son (2019) (Read)
- The Wife Upstairs (2020) (Read)
- One By One (2020) (Read)
- Want to Know a Secret? (2021) (Read)
- The Locked Door (2021)
- Do Not Disturb (2021)
- Do You Remember? (2022)
- The Housemaid (2022) (Read)
- The Inmate (2022)
- Never Lie (2022)
This is my review of Want to Know a Secret?
April Masterson lives in a rich neighborhood with her husband, Elliot, and seven-year-old son, Bobby. The neighbors are all snobby, out to impress, typical wealthy housewives, until Maria and her family move in next door and change the dynamics.
April Masterson is a YouTube baking star of YouTube’s ‘April’s Sweet Secrets’ but has secrets she needs to keep hidden…secrets she’d rather you didn’t know.
Everyone has secrets. Some are worse than others. April’s secrets are enough to destroy her.
But where does Maria fit into their world. The beginning is a little slow, but halfway through, the suspense level rise drastically and the story takes off. The ending shocked me and had me on the edge of my seat.
Another great read!
3. JAYNE reviews for Want to Know a Secret?
“Want to Know a Secret” is a “popcorn thriller” with a very, very, very slow start, an enticing book cover, many unreliable narrators, and a surprise twist ending.
As soon as this book reached the 50% mark, the book magically transformed itself into an unputdownable page-turner and really started to move.
Author Freida McFadden is a gifted storyteller who has mastered the art of misdirection and, as a result, I did not guess the ending.
I did feel that the book had too many eye-rolling moments and this negatively impacted my rating.
I listened to the audiobook and narrator Alyson Krawchuk did a fabulous job with the narration.
I am a Freida McFadden fan and I look forward to listening to her future titles.
4. CHRISTI reviews for Want to Know a Secret?
Good twist
Really was disliking the main character April & all her “friends” Kept thinking why am I reading this. Then it all makes more since about 75% through. The author uses 2 different points of view. In the end I would say worth the read.
5. JCARDOZO reviews for Want to Know a Secret?
Full of suspense
As usual, in a great sense, the book ending is totally different from what you were expecting, full of suspense and drama, great characters and storyline, easy to read and keeps you turning page after page to find out the final development.
6. KEYSA RINGNEY reviews for Want to Know a Secret?
What is all I can say right now?! I’m sitting here with my mouth wide open due to the ending of this book!
We have April, a beautiful woman married to her attorney husband Elliott and they have a son named Bobby. Then we have April’s best friend (or she thinks) Julie, who use to be an attorney who is also married to attorney named Keith. They have two sons, Tristan and Leo.
Next, we have Maria and Sean and their son, Owen, who have moved in the house between April’s and Julie’s.
April makes the best sweets and has her own YouTube channel for baking. Everything about April is perfect…. A little too perfect. Elliott had an affair with his secretary and was going to leave April when Bobby was 2 years old. Fast forward five years and oops Elliott has done it again with his current secretary but she is PREGNANT! April is fierce. Just so happens the first secretary ended up dead and mysteriously so has the second.
Is April behind these murders. Her mom, Janet, seems to think so until Janet later reveals a shocker of all shockers after April is arrested for the murder of the second secretary. Janet’s shocker had me flabbergasted. I need a part two to this one because I need to know exactly what happened and who “April” really is!!!
7. SDANESHGAR reviews for Want to Know a Secret?
Secrets Behind the Apron: A YouTube Baker’s Dark Side in Want to Know a Secret?
I recently finished reading Want to Know a Secret? by Freida McFadden, and it was an enthralling experience from start to finish. The book kept me on the edge of my seat, constantly eager to find out what would happen next. McFadden masterfully weaves a tale full of twists and turns, making it difficult to predict what is truly going on.
The story centers around April Masterson, a YouTube baking sensation with secrets that could destroy her. As the plot unfolds, it becomes clear that everyone in the novel has something to hide, and the lengths they will go to protect their secrets are both shocking and fascinating. The characters are well-developed, and their actions reveal the darker sides of human nature.
One of the standout aspects of this book is its ability to keep the reader guessing. Just when you think you have figured out the mystery, McFadden throws in another twist that changes everything. This unpredictability makes the novel incredibly engaging and hard to put down.
Overall, Want to Know a Secret? is a gripping psychological thriller that explores the depths of deception and the consequences of hidden truths. I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys a good suspenseful read.
8. DEB reviews for Want to Know a Secret?
I love love love Frieda McFadden books. I read them in a day. I always tell people don’t start a Frieda book after 7pm because you’ll be up all night reading to see what happens next. She’s such a talented writer so many twists in her books. I have her new one on order and can’t wait to read it. If you like psychological thrillers you’ll love Frieda books.
9. HANNAH reviews for Want to Know a Secret?
Rounding up to a four. First half was really tense. My brain was definitely in flight or fright throughout it, but then when the perpetrator was revealed and the full backstory, I was able to relax.
It was hard to tell whose point of view was the truth. It was clear both the victim and the vigilante both felt like they were wronged/justified. It was only at the end where everything is explained, and I realized I really hated every character, including the children.
Also, the little gimmick of the secret ingredient in almost every chapter in the first part of the book got super annoying after the second time.
Admittedly, the epilogue took me by surprise.
10. SHERRI THACKER reviews for Want to Know a Secret?
This is one of the strangest books I’ve ever read but in a very good way! The first 3/4 of the book is from April’s POV. Then Freida says let’s confuse the reader and switch it up and switch it over to Julie’s POV. Same scenarios but different details. Holy cow!!! This left me saying WHAT???? Freida is a genius! Loved this book from the very first page and could not put it down. The ending is the twistiest one yet and she is the Queen of Twisty Endings! Always!!!!! Loved it!
III. Want to Know a Secret? Quotes by Freida McFadden
The best book quotes from Want to Know a Secret? by Freida McFadden
“I know the secret of why Mark Tanner let you talk him into that other boy joining the team. And if you tell anyone about these messages, everyone in town will know it too.”
“Yet somehow somebody has a photograph of Mark and me taken during that one kiss, snapped through my living room window.”
“I’m not Owen’s birth mother. His biological mother… died several years ago. He doesn’t even remember her. I adopted him after Sean and I got married.”
“Life is too short to read boring books.”
“At times like these, I wish I could talk to my mother. It’s like a deep ache inside my chest.”
“he’s barely keeping”
“15 Owen and Bobby are becoming best friends. And honestly, it’s a relief. There’s nothing wrong with Leo Bressler, Bobby’s former best friend. Except for the fact that his mother is Julie. Don’t get me wrong—I love Julie. But sometimes I get the distinct feeling she doesn’t care much for my son. Every time Bobby goes to Julie’s house, there’s some sort of a problem. The last time he went over, she went on and on about how he didn’t take his shoes off and now”
“Well, gee,” I say. “If I’m so goddamn unlikable, why did you marry me in the first place?” “Beats me.”
“She’s lived a long time, and she just says whatever the hell she wants to say.”
“simply saw him leave my yard and wanted to give me a warning. “Even if that were true…” Which it isn’t. “You still should have gotten permission from me directly. You are never supposed to leave the backyard without asking me if it’s okay. Do you understand?” Bobby lowers his eyes. “Yes,” he mumbles.”
“Who gets a white carpet when they have young sons? Tell me, who?”
“But I don’t understand. How could April go to jail? Because April is dead. And I’m the one who killed her.”
“I tell everyone that I’m trying to keep fit, but the truth is, the adrenaline I get from running is the only thing close to what I used to feel when I was in the courtroom. If I ever stopped running, I would probably have to start taking speed. I love pushing myself as hard as I can.”
“I always wanted friends, but I found it hard to get close to people. Everyone thought I seemed aloof, and it became a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
“Sometimes you just need your mother.”
“don’t know what’s so hard about saying sorry. It’s like apologizing is physically painful for them. I say sorry about a hundred times a day. Even if it’s not my fault.”
“This is going to be my life now. Playgroups for adults. I miss putting people in jail. “Also,”
“I tried to read it—I really did. I got about two pages in, and I was just done. I simply couldn’t go on. I think it was the part where he was at the pet store, picking out varieties of birdseed. Life is too short to read boring books.”
“Parents can be held civilly liable for any minor child’s willful misconduct.”
“I always wanted friends, but I found it hard to get close to people.”
“She’s a little intense, but that’s only because she used to be an attorney in her previous life.”
“Oh, thank God. We’re done discussing the book. Julie’s lips are set in a straight line, but there isn’t much she can do about it. We don’t come here to discuss the book. We come here to drink wine and chat about our lives. The book in book club is arbitrary.”
“She probably would have if she had been wearing her life alert necklace.” She clucks her tongue. “I can’t imagine why she took it off.” I frown. “Life alert necklace?”
“Yes. That’s true.” I sigh. “It’s just that… I know how badly Elliot wants another child. I feel like… I’m letting him down.”
“The buttery, brown sugary pineapple juice that seeps down into the cake from the slices on top make the cakes so moist, soft, and buttery.”
“Janet Portland was her daughter’s alibi for murder,” Peggy says. “Then a year later, Janet decided to stop being her alibi anymore. And now she’s here. On enough medications to kill a horse. You can connect the dots from there.”
“That’s right. I am.” “April is my daughter,” she says. “And she is pure evil.”
“Want to know a secret? Your son isn’t where you think he is.”
“April is my daughter,” she says. “And she is pure evil.”
“They say that what you do when you drive shows what kind of person you really are deep down.”
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