{"id":283,"date":"2022-08-25T11:32:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T01:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/?p=283"},"modified":"2022-08-25T11:35:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T01:35:49","slug":"283","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0The Children’s Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Nina Monroe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

January 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the vein of <\/strong>Big Little Lies<\/em> <\/strong>, Nina Monroe’s suspense debut explores the dangerous side of suburbia.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing ever happens in a sleepy town like Middlebrook. Until the residents are shaken to their core, when one hot Saturday afternoon, at a back-to-school party, nine children sneak into a barn…and only eight come out unharmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The press immediately starts asking questions. What the type of parents let their children play unsupervised in a house with guns? What kind of child pulls the trigger on their friend? And most importantly: of the nine children who were present in that barn, which one actually pulled the trigger, and why are the others staying silent?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Incredibly gripping and gorgeously written, this thought-provoking novel asks how much our children are capable of, and how far we will go to protect them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thank you to Net-galley for allowing me to read Nina Monroe’s book The Children’s Secret. I love the storyline, the background of each family coming to the fore, as their stories played out. The ability of children so young to keep a secret to protect each other. Mothers who could not and would not believe their child could be involved and a father’s anger and struggle to understand his wife’s conflicting views.
I did find it confusing at times to keep up with so many characters, mainly with the adult characters more so than the children.
I also found some information a bit disbelieving such as the placental abruption not resulting in the loss of the baby though we don’t really know at one stage in the pregnancy the character is at.
I recommend reading this book, it really throws up some thought provoking questions around guns with Nina Monroe navigated her way around this issues beautifully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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