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    Secret Smile
    Secret Smile
    Secret Smile
    Audiobook9 hours

    Secret Smile

    Written by Nicci French

    Narrated by Anne Flosnik

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Miranda’s sister, Kerri, has a new boyfriend. He’s a raven-haired, handsome charmer who seems to dote on Kerri. But Brendan isn’t the man he says he is. Miranda should know, because she broke off her own affair with him just a few weeks ago when she found him reading her diary.

    Now Brendan claims that it was he who ended their short-lived relationship—and everyone believes him. When he and Kerri announce their engagement, Miranda’s parents are thrilled for their shyer, less confident daughter. Then Kerri and Brendan beg Miranda to let them live in her apartment until their new home is ready. Against her better judgment, Miranda agrees.

    Like a virus, Brendan starts spreading destruction throughout her life. He invades her privacy and disrupts her relationships with her family and friends. And then the real nightmare begins.…

    Like the obscenities he whispers into her ear, his onslaughts are as undetectable as they are devastating. Those closest to her begin to doubt her mental stability and accuse her of the very thing she believes drives Brendan: obsession. When Miranda decides to take off the gloves, fight back, and discover what is behind her enemy’s bemused, secret smile, the consequences will be terrifying.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMay 16, 2017
    ISBN9781543612226
    Secret Smile
    Author

    Nicci French

    Nicci French is the pseudonym of English wife-and-husband team Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. Their acclaimed novels of psychological suspense have sold more than sixteen million copies around the world.

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    • 3/5
      Miranda meets a guy, breaks up with him but he's a artful manipulator and somehow remains in her life. Many reviewers felt her stupid actually I think it is all those who surround her that are idiots and for some reason Miranda knows she can't share details with them because they won't believe her. Why? That's never really explored. Conclusion is a cop out and wraps up too nicely with no action.
    • 4/5
      Through the whole book I was thinking that this was just like another book by this author(s), however, I didn't see the end coming at all, so that was a nice surpirse.
    • 5/5
      I couldn't really read the first half of the book. I have the tendency to take on a story as if it is happening to ME, so it was really frustrating that no one believed me (Miranda, the main character) and that I couldn't think of a way to convince the people around me that Brendan was really stalking me.One thing isn't right about this story. I think a large majority of all people in Miranda's situation would have told someone about Brendan, before the stalking began. Obviously because anyone would feel a bit disturbed to find their boyfriend reading their diary. Miranda told nobody, so that Brendan could talk his way into all of their hearts. It's frustrating how sorry they all felt for Miranda, for not being able to let him go. This story was too intense for me, so I promised myself never to read another Nicci French book, but I bet I'll be reading the next one by the end of this week because they're so addictive!
    • 3/5
      The Nicci French couple can always create stories with an opressive and anguished atmosphere. We are left with a not-so-good feeling.This time we have a woman, Miranda, that after breaking up with a guy she went out with for 8 or 9 times, sees that she can't get rid of him. He starts going out with her sister and telling a whole bunch of lies about her and their relationship to everyone. I couldn't help a feeling that she should have being stronger and tried to put a stop at that before being too late, as it turned out to be. Brendan was really a nasty guy and could charm anyone, but it seemed a little unbelievable that no one believed Miranda. No one! And isn't this repetitive? Haven't we seen the same situation in other books? Are they loosing their touch? The book lacks originality, we've seen all of that before... The twist at the end, predictable. Weak.If this was the 1st book I had read by them, probably I would have a differente opinion, but after all the others, I wanted more, and different.