Genre: YA Thriller
Published: August 29, 2023
Pages: 358
Some secrets should never have been buried . . .
We call it the Dark Place. I don’t know who built it or when but, for us, it’s special.
One night every year Sam Hall and his friends hold funerals for their secrets in an abandoned hut in the woods that they call the Dark Place. But this year, their secrets are taking on a life of their own.
Sam is a former child star whose career went up in flames—literally. And no one, not even his best friend knows why. His friends each hold a secret pertaining to the night. A secret they would all like buried.
Now someone from the past is blackmailing them with their dangerous secrets. Sam isn’t sure who he can trust, who’s watching him – or how far he’s willing to go to bury the past once and for all.
We call it the Dark Place. I don’t know who built it or when but, for us, it’s special.
One night every year Sam Hall and his friends hold funerals for their secrets in an abandoned hut in the woods that they call the Dark Place. But this year, their secrets are taking on a life of their own.
Sam is a former child star whose career went up in flames—literally. And no one, not even his best friend knows why. His friends each hold a secret pertaining to the night. A secret they would all like buried.
Now someone from the past is blackmailing them with their dangerous secrets. Sam isn’t sure who he can trust, who’s watching him – or how far he’s willing to go to bury the past once and for all.
I won a copy of this book through a giveaway on StoryGraph (I think, I actually don't remember if it was StoryGraph or Goodreads). This is my honest review.
Like all good YA thrillers, this book revolves around a mixed group of friends. It has the popular guy and girl who inexplicably hang out with a couple high school outcasts because they've been friends since they were in diapers basically. And that's just a recipe for disaster.
This story hinges on the group's secrets and trying to figure out who knows them, but also not letting them tear the group apart. It felt very I Know What You Did Last Summer to me, and I mean that in the best way possible.
I found myself anxious to figure out what was going on, and I think I solved it just before the reveal, but I don't actually remember how this story ends now (a year after reading it). But that just means I can reread this book and get most of the excitement that comes with that.
Overall I give Secrets Never Die 4.9736 out of 5 stars. - Katie
VINCENT RALPH is the bestselling author of YA thrillers 14 Ways to Die and Lock the Doors. Both novels are New York Times bestsellers and Lock the Doors is also a USA Today bestseller and the winner of the Southern Schools Book Award. Vincent owes his love of books to his mother, who encouraged his imagination from an early age and always made sure there were new stories to read. He lives in the UK with his wife, two sons, and two cats.
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