Book Review: Little Whispers

Little Whispers By K.L. Slater

Genres: Thriller, Mystery

Publication date: May 21st 2020

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You shared a secret with the wrong person.

Janey Markham is thrilled to be moving with her family to Buckingham Crescent, the smartest address in a desirable suburban town.

Worried she’ll be excluded by the glossy local mothers, Janey is thrilled when she meets Tanya, the kind of woman she has always looked up to. Tanya takes Janey under her wing, and her teenage daughter Angel is amazing with Janey’s little boy. As Janey and Tanya grow closer, Janey feels she can finally leave her troubled past behind.

But then everything changes…

In a weak moment over a bottle of wine, Janey finds herself telling Tanya her most shocking secret. Why wouldn’t she trust her new friend?

The following day, Janey sees Angel, with a man old enough to be her father, pushing someone into a car. The next day a body is found and police appeal for witnesses – and share a picture of the same car…

When Janey tells Tanya she is going to the police, Tanya turns threatening. She’ll stop at nothing to defend Angel, even if her daughter is guilty. If Janey says anything, Tanya will make sure that her dark secret gets out.

Janey faces an impossible choice. Stay quiet about what she saw that terrible day. Or speak up, and destroy the family she has worked so hard to protect…

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The first thing that I find beautiful is the cover. I don’t know about you, but it seems interesting and it left me wanting to know more so I immediately requested it, thankfully I was accepted which I’m quite thankful for!!….Thank you Netgalley and Bookouture!!!

I find the characters truly well chosen; so relatable and real. Janey, the main character, has just lost her mother a few months ago and is still trying to recover from the loss, as well as the shocking secrets her mom told her during her last days. Her husband; Isaac, who just got a new job which, as he says, will be the beginning of a new bright life, he seems off somehow though…

Tanya is your typical rich-beautiful-fashionable mom and Janey’s neighbor, they become later on friends, along with Edie and Kyoko and other moms from the same neighborhood. The thing that I quite liked is that each character was different from the other, each one has a set of problems/struggles to deal with and it made reading the book more enjoyable!

I believe that the writing style is the thing that made the reading experience pretty cool and breathtaking. During the first chapters, it was normal paced, it reminded me of bad moms, I think the action set off about 100 pages or so in, I didn’t find it boring but it wasn’t as much as after the 100 pages….Nevertheless, once action started, the intrigue hits full force and it becomes harder to put the book down. I actually finished it at 2 AM 🙂 .