Can You Keep a Secret?

Can You Keep a Secret?

2003 • 156 pages

Ratings97

Average rating3.7

15

I wanted to find a light book to read at work in downtime, one I wouldn't have to pay too much attention to or think about too much. I will say by the time I was almost finished this book I was about to give up. some parts of it were genuinely funny. At times I really liked the main character and thought she was hilarious.
But...
I honestly wanted to strangle pretty much every character. Emma was funny sometimes but insecure, naive, immature, and just completely stupid at times. Her roomates (mainly Jemima) made me want to rip the book apart (I guess it's good that I had it on Kindle and not paper). I wanted to like Jack but he was basically a cardboard cutout. No substance. Nothing. He literally could have been a cardboard cutout that Emma carried around everywhere, and I might have found the story more interesting.

I am sorry I didn't enjoy this book. I wanted to like it. But it was like Bridget Jones with even more crazy drama and less enjoyable characters.

April 24, 2017Report this review