Secret Pages by Bob W. Anderson
My score: 3 of 5 stars
Secret Pages is a romantic thriller set round Broadway’s stage musical scene within the Thirties, although a thriller from that period spirals into trendy occasions.
Shar and Bozzy are stars of the stage with lead roles in a sensational musical, however their fortunes come crashing down. Years later Shar’s nice niece reads her diaries and discovers the reality concerning the previous.
The creator’s background within the arts shone via with vivid descriptions of theatre life, particularly the lengthy hours of rehearsals. These had been my favorite elements as a result of I might simply image them and far of that is instructed to the reader by way of flashbacks from the diaries of Shar.
The thriller that weaves via the guide is ready in trendy occasions. I discovered these to be much less attention-grabbing chapters and the fashion of writing led to a lot of the narrative being instructed quite than proven to the reader. I felt little connection to the characters and no empathy, even for Shar. I’m guessing from the truth that this guide’s cowl says that the guide was a quarter-finalist within the Los Angeles Worldwide Screenplay Awards, that this story started life as a play script. The scene setting helps this, nevertheless the weak character growth on account of the transition to novel format left me disillusioned.
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Guide description:
Sharmaine was a sensational hit on Broadway by age 19. That wasn’t her solely ardour. She was about to win the center of her old flame. However all of the sudden, her storybook life was devastated by an explosive love triangle. In a single horrific second, her goals had been turned to ashes. Her solely probability for restoration would hinge on a fastidiously guarded secret buried between the pages of an previous diary . . . and on the timeless tenacity of a brand new pal who refuses to imagine that Sharmaine is a assassin.__________Secret Pages was additionally written as a movement image screenplay which not too long ago gained a Finalist Award in The Los Angeles Worldwide Screenplay Awards competing towards 120,500 different entries.
