Twisted Secrets (Deadly Isles Special Ops Book 1) by Amy McKinley – Review by Hayley Thrumble

Twisted Secrets by Amy McKinley
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This has everything you could possibly want and MORE! There is so much going on in this book and yet it is SO well written it isn’t overwhelming. This is the perfect combination of a streamy romance, psychological thriller, murder mystery and military thriller all in one. I don’t know how McKinley does it but she manages to not only make all these genres work, but excels at writing a gripping, “edge of your seat” storyline which I could not get enough of.

The character connection is evident from the first few chapters and the intensity and drama between them continues throughout. McKinley teases you for such a long time with the idea that Riley and Xander may become an item, but due to their troubled pasts you’re never sure if this is really going to happen, but you desperately want it to and are cheering for them the whole way through.

The mystery part of the novel has so many twists, leaving you constantly thinking you’ve got it figured out when you really haven’t. I think it took me 3 separate twists to finally work out what was happening here. The twist was original and very well done with subtle hints throughout the book which you might miss if you were reading too quickly – which would be easy to do with this book!

This is my first McKinley novel and I am blown away, I have the next book in this series already downloaded and I can’t wait to start it and continue this gripping story.

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