I am dunking my head into ice bucket. Smoke still comes out from my deep fried brain cells! What a batshit crazy, twisty, confusing, exciting journey it was!

Netflix Undeniable meets Room with psychological and hallucinating vibes pushed you out of your comfort zone, chilling your bones, disturbing your mental state which help you to connect with unreliable heroine!

18 years old Terra might be one of the most inaccurate narrator you have ever met.

When you read her traumatic, heart wrenching story about losing her parents at house fire, dealing with her survival guilt feelings and her dysfunctional, estranged relationship dynamics with her nurse aunt she has to live with, you feel like you’re moving at the dark streets of her life and each place covered in fog. You cannot see where you move because everything is so blurry, questionable, indecisive.

She tells her captivation story which lasted four days she spent in a well. But after she ran away by beating her captor ( or he let her go, who knows?) nobody believed in her that she has been kidnapped! They treated her like liar shepherd boy.

The police thought she was wasting their precious time and taxpayers’ money. Her own aunt thinks she already lost her mind so she needs to be hospitalized before everything is getting out of control. The friends she had start bullying her, sharing meanest comments on social media accounts. She turned into a pariah, outcast, persona non grata.

The only people she can connect and share her experiences are on “ Jane Anonymous” site: a group of survivors who have been captured, abused, traumatized just like her.

She befriends Peyton from the same site, chatting virtually helps her deal with her pain as she continues to search evidences to prove her own story.

Garrett, the charming guy she met at the very same night she’s been captured, acts like friendly, wanting to help for digging out the mystery. But Terra has hard time to trust people when everyone in her life turned their backs to her.

Does Garrett have secret motive? And why did Peyton vanish into the thin air? Her story has so many resemblances with her captivation pattern. Did the same person kidnap both of them or do somebody from her inner circle play dangerous games with her?

I have to admit: I truly enjoy the books play mind games with me and I love clever authors who can easily fool me by creative tricks, pulling the rug out from under me,killing my spidey sensitive senses with intelligence. This book checks all those boxes.

But the storyline’s connection and similarities with Jane Anonymous ( the previous book of the author which I adored so much) made me lose my enthusiasm about the story just a little bit.

The conclusion of this story was twisty but not earth shattering of emotionally overwhelming kind of surprising just like Jane Anonymous.
Some parts of the mystery didn’t fit with my expectations.

It was still well developed, gripping, thought provoking psychological thriller and throughout your reading you always question what’s real and what are the distorted facts. You finally learn to find your way to understand the credibility of heroine’s story.

Overall: I enjoyed the previous book more but this one was still brilliant, fast, riveting, exciting reading earned my shiny, blinking four stars!

I cannot wait to read more works of this brilliant, smart author!

Special thanks to NetGalley and Wednesday Books/ St. Martin’s Press for sharing this exciting arc with me in exchange my honest opinions.

I read an advanced copy of, The Last Secret You'll Ever Keep, By Laurie Faria Stolarz. Terra was attacked, but nobody believes her. Her parents died in a fire, but Terra survived. This book is so engrossing, sad, but gripping. Their is real evil in this world, and Terra experienced it.

This was a suspenseful read and you couldn't help but feel bad for the narrator, even when you're not entirely sure what the truth is. I'm also wondering...do people still use chat sites? The last time I remember that being a thing was when AOL first came out (pretty sure I just dated myself, haha).

Kindly received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

The Last Secret You'll Ever Keep is the perfect YA thriller that keeps the reader constantly questioning if they can trust the narrator. Terra is a troubled teenager living with her aunt after a family tragedy who was taken and held in a well by a mystery kidnapper after a night at a party. After she manages to escape, no one believes that she was really taken. What a ride this book was! I will say that I figured out part of the twist pretty early on, but I didn't see the whole story coming. Even at the end, some of the pieces felt a little unfinished, but it was still a fun read that I binged in one day. I'd recommend this book for fans of YA thrillers who love questioning the narrator's version of truth.

this was such a ride. not only is the cover stunning, but so is the plot itself. i was genuinely impressed with how engaged i found myself, and definitely look forward to seeing what else this author has in store