Well-developed characters. Interesting plot. Vivid descriptions. A wonderful read!

*I received a complimentary ARC of this book in order to read and provide a voluntary, unbiased and honest review, should I choose to do so.

This one was one that kept me up at night. I wanted to know what was going on and what had happened to Sasha.

The story is told by Angela, who is being questioned in an interview room by the police about her involvement in the disappearance of Sasha, the wife of her old boyfriend.

I had a bit of trouble with the timelines, but other than that, it was an interesting read that really kept you wondering what was going on. My only complaint was that the end happened way too quickly for a story that was being told in great detail and fairly slow.

Thank you NetGalley for this ARC. A very good read!

Definitely an interesting read, but one that i had high expectations for after seeing so many glowing reviews. I definitely enjoyed it, though not as much as some other reviewers.

I received a free ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This book was very different. The characters were interesting but the storyline left a little to be desired.

This was a quick paced book full of mystery and suspense that wasn't easily anticipated. It had me hooked until the end. Would definitely recommend it.

Thanks for NetGalley for the ecopy for my Kindle.
A easy read that was o.k. until the ending. Two options given for the ending which I thought both were strange and the book ended too fast.

Deep inside the fibers of everyone's brain, where the real stories are told, there's always dark intend. Everybody has the urge to destroy. It's simply a sliding scale. Put a crowd of a hundred people in a room and wait. Eventually the psychopaths will emerge. They won't be who you would suspect and there will always be more than one.

Not a heartwarming read but definitely a read that reveals the darkness of the heart. The antagonist Angela finds herself at the police station being interrogated by the police in the disappearance of Saskia. The narration is based on Novak's interrogation of Angela and the response of Angela that tells the love story of HP and herself. How they met, their relationship, and what brought it all to the little room at the police station. The brilliance of this read the articulation of a heart that is scorned. Some of it can be hard to understand in the relationship of Angela, HP and the living relationship that ensued. An ex girlfriend living with her ex boyfriend and wife and child. That is a train wreck waiting to happen and its not pretty.

Angela focuses on her other relationships with interrogation as well. Her mother and good friend that she met while in Oxford. Relationships that ultimately lead to her demise.

The way we live now, most people veil their destructiveness and dress it up as love. They clothe it and feed it and take it out on the town as their socially acceptable form of devastation. They do as much damage as the next person. All love stories are crime stories and all crime stories are love stories. If you say that's not true, you're not looking properly. Perhaps when two people join, it's inevitable, the things they'll damage in each other.

Love story or crime story yea it's both!

A Special Thank You to St. Martin's Press and Netgalley for the ARC and the opportunity to post an honest review.

Wow! That is the best word to sum up this book about obsession. I loved how the author wrote the story with Angela reliving her relationship with HP during a police interrogation about the disappearance of Saskia. I could feel her desperation over wanting to be believed. I cannot wait to read more from this author. What an amazing debut!

Fun, fast paced psychological thriller that I devoured in just one sitting! I had heard so much buzz about this book and it totally lived up to the hype! Can't wait to see what comes next from Roz Nay!

As Angela sits in the interrogation room, the minutes click by, turning into hours, and possibly even days. They just want to know the answers, what really happened to Saskia, Angela's ex-boyfriends new wife. In Our Little Secret by Roz Nay, the story unfolds in a cold room with a cop that can't help but want to hear what Angela has to say, even if she has to start her story many years ago when she and her ex HP were in high school.

Following Angela through her glory days is incredible, especially as you watch the officer get simultaneously more entangled in her story, and frustrated that it's taking her so long to get to the point. When does Saskia come in, and what role does Angela have to play in her disappearance, if any at all? Listening to Angela's story over the course of her interrogation at the police station will enthrall you as well. Watching her go from a shy and awkward teenager who has a first time boyfriend, to an adult with a slight obsession on her ex will have you wondering the same thing as the police, did Angela have anything to do with Saskia's disappearance? It almost seems like she's leading us right into her web...

I really enjoyed this book, I read it in like a day and a half. One thing that I loved about it, was that it really was only told over the course of a day while Angela was at the police station, but she has to explain all of the history that her and HP had, and why it is that Saskia was the one who destroyed their perfect love story. You'll be wondering what HP and Angela's little secret is, and could it have driven Saskia off? Or did Angela really have something to do with her disappearance?

I'm being purposefully vague in my description because I really think it's best to go into this story not knowing, and being surprised, by the emotions of Angela and her ability to tell a damn tantalizing story. For now, though, I'll say the ending is a shock, and the writing is superb. I give this one 5 out of 5 stars.

There was a lot of hype around Our Little Secret, especially for a debut author. My interest was piqued enough to check it out. Sadly, the story was nothing like what I expected and did not hold my interest at all.

At the start of the story, the reader knows nothing except that a woman is missing and the narrator, Angela, is being questioned regarding the disappearance. At first, nothing is told about this woman other than that her name is Saskia and she is missing. No further details will be given for a long time actually. Let’s see. If you were being questioned about a person’s disappearance, would you:

A: Confess everything out of nervousness, even if you didn’t do it.
B: Demand a lawyer then shut the hell up.
C: Bore the officer to death with an extremely long, self-indulgent narrative of your entire life story including a protracted foray into how you lost your virginity.

Yeah, Angela went with Option C…

The story is essentially one long monologue from the narrator telling her entire life story to the detective who occasional interrupts to try to ask questions about the case. The first third of the story (literally one third!) is an extremely angsty look at Angela’s teenage years. And apparently those years were stuffed full of mindless drama. I hate drama and angst. I hated the nasty drama of high school and have no interest in reliving it in any way. That includes reading books about it. If I had known the story would focus on that so much, then I never would have picked up this book. Honestly, it was highly unlikely that anything in the latter two-thirds could have recaptured my interest after being dragged through all that bitchy high school drama.

This is not a story about who or what. It’s a story about why. There is almost no action in the story. Everything is passively told after the fact while the reader is kept in the dark about all the interesting bits until the last possible second. Instead, you get to listen to every narcissistic, self-indulgent, self-delusional thought that the narrator can squeeze into a monologue. And I am tired of unreliable narrators. As short as this book is, for me it dragged on.

I usually try to be lenient on debut books, but honestly nothing about this story grabbed my attention. I was bored, disappointed, and frustrated by the narrator. But if you like agnsty, character-driven, semi-suspenseful stories with unreliable narrators and lots of drama then hopefully you will enjoy this book more than I did. I certainly can’t call it a bad book; it just has an abundance of things that I don’t enjoy in my stories and clearly was not the book for me.

I felt there was so missed potential with this book. The set-up was interesting but ultimately it boils down to she's either she's guilty or not (as is the case with many mysteries/thrillers). The how and why behind her guilt or innocence is what makes a story interesting. But here, it felt rather banal. She's trying to tell us this epic love story that didn't feel epic (to me), more your standard first love story. It felt like Nay was trying so hard to protect her ending/twist when it simply might have been better to let us see a bit more behind the curtains.

I enjoyed this book for the most part, but I just didn't connect with the characters well, I didn't love any of them, I didn't hate any of them either, which is okay but I'd rather be passionate about a character one way or another. I did end up being surprised in the end but I guess I wasn't a fan of how it ended either. That being said, the writing was good and I'm sure many people will enjoy it more than I did. Thanks for the chance to read and review the book Netgalley!

3.5 stars*

Our Little Secret begins with our protagonist, Angela, trapped in a dingy interrogation room. Police detective Novak wants to know what happened to a woman named Saskia. Who is Saskia, and why are all of Angela's answers revolving around HP (Saskia's husband) instead?

In terms of psychological thrillers, Our Little Secret is pretty traditional. Love, obsession, and more obsession abounds here. Angela and HP are childhood friends turned into something more - that is, until HP meets Saskia. After that, Angela's life flounders.

What makes this book interesting to read is how Angela justifies her laser beam infatuation with HP. She's extremely intelligent, but funnels all of her mental resources on HP, and the life he's building with Saskia.

I didn't like the ending, unfortunately. It introduced elements that I couldn't find evidence of in the rest of the book. That said, I did enjoy this novel. It was a nice distraction in my currently stressful life!

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an ARC.

Angela Petitjean has found herself in a police interrogation room with Detective Novak. While being questioned with respect to her potential involvement in the disappearance of Saskia, the wife of Angela’s first crush and adolescent boyfriend, Angela divulges into ten-years of history between herself and HP in a read between the lines, scratch your head kind of tale. Are you listening?

From Chapter One I. Was. Hooked!! Seriously, if I could give this book more stars I would. I especially loved the setup; it was captivating and flowed beautifully. Chapter to chapter the reader gets to know the characters in this story so well and I became so caught up in Angela Petitjean retelling of her past that I often forgot the main reason she was being questioned in the first place.

This is a super quick read at only 228 pages and Roy Nay had me entrapped in every word she wrote. There is no fluff, no useless additions, every single word contained, and every single chapter included was executed perfectly. The instability, the quintessentially unreliable narrator, the thrilling ride to an ending that will stick with you and leave you pondering long after you have finished.

Roz, you and your clever web of lies have a fan in me for sure. Roz’s writing style and storytelling reminded me of another one of my favorite authors, Chevy Stevens. If you too are a fan of Chevy you are not going to want to miss out on falling in love with a new author and her electrifying debut novel. I cannot wait to see what you come out with next, Roz! Such a spectacular debut!

How far does anyone go for love? It is a tricky question and when you have such an unreliable narrator as Angela Petitjean, you will really have to wonder.

Angela is what I would call a narcissist. She seems to have a very high esteem of herself and a very low tolerance of others. As she sits in an interrogation room with a detective, we learn about her past with HP. They grew up together and were first loves. Now, his wife Saskia is missing and all fingers point to Angela. She feels otherwise and leads the detective on a little cat and mouse game until the very end.

Angela is one of the most fascinating characters I have read in a while. She is so unlikable in her attitude but you feel sorry for her. And then you don’t. And then you do. It goes back and forth with this wonderful writing. Then the end comes. That final chapter that makes you go “Wow”. It is written so it flows very quickly and you are wrapped up in what is happening.

If you love an unreliable narrator (and really, who doesn’t) and a book with that little edge of doubt and suspense, this is the read for you.

Thanks to Netgalley and St. Martin’s Press (my favorite publisher) for this wonderful read.

Thanks to Net Galley ,
3.5 stars ,This is a psychological thriller about love and obsession, I liked this book, it was a really quick read, although I it kept my attention it felt better suited for a lifetime movie. Most of the characters were one dimensional. I wish Angela would have just gone away to College.

This book begins with Angela going back years giving her story of HP and her friendship/relationship to a detective in a police station. This book grabs and does not let you go. Very well written and will have you thinking bout the characters long after you have finished reading. I have already told friends to get this book. Thanks to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for the ARC of this book in return for my honest review.

4 bewitching stars to Our Little Secret! 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟

Our Little Secret drew me into its pages from the start. Angela is interrogated by the police because her ex’s wife is missing. She hasn’t seen this ex for years, so why is she being dragged into this? Is Angela telling the truth to Detective Novak, or is she yet another unreliable, manipulative narrator?

Our Little Secret is a slim novel and quite the page-turner. Once I started reading it, I lost some sleep in order to finish it! I found Angela’s character enthralling. She’s a tough nut to crack, and I tried my best to analyze her and her hidden motives.

Bottom line, Our Little Secret is a fresh thriller from a new voice in the genre, one that kept me captivated and doubting myself throughout. I’ll definitely be looking for this author’s next book!

Thank you to Roz Nay, St. Martin’s Press, and Netgalley for the ARC. Our Little Secret is available now!

Very intriguing mystery - it's one of those books that I wanted to start reading again as soon as I finished it, just to see if i could catch clues I missed. OUR LITTLE SECRET sucked me in and I stayed up way too late reading it one night. Great book for a vacation read and I look forward to Roz Nay's next book!