Publisher:
Flux
Release
Date: 1st
September 2014
Edition:
e-proof,
NetGalley review copy
Olivia
Reynolds and her twin brother Liam have been best friends their whole lives. But
ever since he started dating, Liam has barely had time for Olivia, making her
feel powerless and alone. Blaming his string of girlfriends, Olivia does
whatever she can to drive them away.
Until
she meets Zoey, Liam’s latest fling. A call-it-like-she-sees-it kind of girl,
Zoey sees right through Olivia’s tricks. What starts as verbal sparring turns
into surprising intimacy, and them something different builds between them.
Something that feels a lot like love.
But
when Liam confesses he’s falling for Zoey, that she’s more than just a fling, Olivia
has to decide who deserves happiness more: her brother or herself.
The first Amanda Grace novel
that I read, The Truth About You &
Me, was one of my favourite books of last year so I was incredibly excited
to get my hands on No One Needs to Know, but
I was slightly disappointed.
Within a few pages I already
knew that I wasn’t going to enjoy this novel as much as I had Grace’s previous
one. The characters veered between irritating and bland and I felt no
connection to them whatsoever. Olivia was irritating and cold for a large proportion
of the novel and even though I knew there would be more behind her facade, I wasn’t
really all that bothered about what she was hiding or who she really was. And Liam
was just plain bland. Nothing really bothered him and his easy disregard of his
twin sister was so effortlessly done, and then when he found out about Olivia
and Zoey’s relationship at the end he barely reacted! It was like he had no
personality and no emotions! Zoey was the only one with a personality. She had
spark and a past and depth that the other two didn’t.
Part of what made Zoey
interesting was how different how her life is to Olivia and Liam’s. They are
rich and spoiled, Zoey works her butt off to help her mum who works all the
hours possible. A mistake in the beginning of her time at a rich school put her
in the girls’ bad books and besmirched her name from then on. The social divide
was explored in No One Needs to Know and
served as more of an obstacle in Olivia and Zoey’s relationship than their
sexuality which was refreshing.
Though I didn’t enjoy No One Needs to Know nearly as much as I
had expecting to, my love for her previous novel is enough to keep me reading
Grace’s novels.
Thanks to NetGalley and Flux
for the review copy.
Sophie
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