Thank you to NetGalley and HQ Digital for sending me an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
I have to say I found the beginning of this book boring and twice I thought about giving up on it. After the second time I did wonder whether perhaps the book was aimed more at my daughter's age group rather than me at, ahem, almost fifty! Having that in mind, I decided to persevere, and once the story line really got going I got hooked in. As the plot hotted up I got to the "can't put it down" stage and had to carry on reading to the end! As each of the students were being eliminated from being the perpetrator, I thought I was on to at least who was behind it but not why, but I was completely wrong and didn't see that twist at all.
Having got to the end of the book I decided to re-read the beginning, and perhaps I was a little impatient with the story setting itself up. So overall I did enjoy this book and would recommend, as it is what it is - a Novella.

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The breakfast club meets Pretty Little Liars and Gossip Girl and that pretty much sums up this novel.


Six students whom do not run in the same circle have detention together but someone is watching and knows all of their secrets, but what are the hiding?
Will they play along with the rules given to them or risk having their secrets exposed? one things for sure, the truth will eventually come out.

Now for what i thought of this novel,i feel like this is something I've read before or at least heard of, i haven't read the novel one of us is lying but i do own it
so i'm aware it's very similar plot of course i can't judge which one is better simply because i haven't read the other. Did i enjoy reading this? yes it was a fast read, given
the fact it was a very short book i read it very quickly and was interested in getting to the end to see who was involved.

Did i like the characters? I didn't feel particularly connected to them but they weren't unlikable either.

When the big reveal happened i wasn't hugely surprised though it was interesting to see said person's reason for doing what they were doing and how these six people were actually connected.

Now for what i thought was pretty stupid, Mr Curtis..the teacher whom the students believed was ablivous to what was actually going on, as if this would happen! one of the girls had to strip naked, one of the boys hands went on fire and
the other got a reaction to lipstick that they had to place on their face so the fact the students would believe the teacher still wasn't aware something was going on in the room, that was really stupid.

Would i read more by this author in the future? yeah i'd give another book ago

I'd like to thank the publisher, author and Netgalley for giving me a chance to review this title. Overall a quick, but suspenseful read. I liked the premise of this book, but i felt that the story was too short to fully flesh out the characters and to adequately develop the links and connections to needed to drive the main narrative of the story. Otherwise, it was a great way to kill a couple of hours.
Daricus L.

Many thanks to the publisher, author and Netgalley for a preview copy of this novella, in return for an honest review.

This is more a short story than a book, similar to The Breakfast Club, it features 6 high school students, all with secrets. It kept my interest and was a decent read.

Six teenagers.
Six secrets that you eat up inside.
Six tasks that publicly expose or hurt.
A justice-seeking perpetrator.
Six lives that change irrevocably within a day ...

A great book for adolescents.
A great perpetrator. - That may sound strange, but I admire his inner strength, foresight and generosity. His revenge was hard and painful. At the same time also healing and liberating.

The Breakfast Club meets Saw in this high school thriller.

There’s a lot going on in this novel, and unfortunately, it’s sort of a detriment to it. The mystery doesn’t really have enough foreshadowing for readers to work it out before the actual conclusion. There are six main characters, and none of them aside from Zoe get quite enough screen time to develop outside of their stereotype box, which is frustrating because that’s what The Breakfast Club was all about.

The Saw portion also seems to fall apart. I’ll try to explain this without giving too much away but beware minor spoilers ahead. The kids are given tasks one by one and while at the beginning these are tasks which can be completed instead of a larger punishment halfway through the tasks become simply punishments. There’s little creativity or any way to accomplish a task at all.

I was compelled to read this book. I even enjoyed it until I started thinking about it seriously. If you want a quick, fast-paced read that’ll hold your attention then this book is great. Until you examine it a little deeper and realize it has as much depth as a street puddle.

This story is a page-turner, each moment is filled with suspense even if the mystery was made so vague that it has to be clearly explained at the end by the mysterious orchestrator. However, I can’t give it many points for originality. The characters are pretty cookie-cutter to The Breakfast Club and just teen tropes in general really. The plot is so-so, and again there aren’t enough hints about the perpetrator although Zoe’s secret is main painfully obvious.

Let’s talk a little more about Zoe. She’s the lens through which we get to see much of the story. Each character is given a bit of POV, although they somehow avoid giving away too much about any of themselves. More on that later. Zoe just feels less than compelling. She has some concerning prejudices against other girls and it’s frustrating to have an internal monologue continuously go “I hope no one finds out my secret!!” while not mentioning the secret. It’s hard to effectively write a main character with a deep secret without revealing the secret because you have to hide a part of them from the reader. If Zoe had to be the main character, her secret being revealed would have given her a better personality. Instead for 90% of the book, she’s just mysterious.

In a similar fashion although every character gets a POV they still manage to hide their big secrets and none of them even know their actual crimes. They also reveal frustratingly little about who they are. They reveal little snippets, like how two characters have a sibling that’s favoured over them, but avoid any actual development. The eventual romances feel forced because there is so little character to work with. Why would this character love that one? Because of some past thing that we as readers don’t get to know about? Okay makes perfect sense.

Here’s what I discovered spending a Saturday with these characters in detention. There’s a brain, a cheerleader, a weirdo, a princess, a criminal and a girl they can all slut-shame. They don’t realize they’re all these things, they never really leave their box. They get a tiny punishment but then just sort of continuing about life how they were before. I hate to say this, but you cannot develop six compelling characters in this short of a novella while also having all this other stuff going on. Maybe this would have worked as a longer book.

And the good news: There is a longer book with almost identical characters and a very similar premise. One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus. I would recommend if readers are interested in this sort of story they look there first instead.

This book was really short and I finished pretty quickly. It is a take of of the Breakfast Club and a book from my past, I Know What You Did Last Summer. The story is interesting but doesn't get too involved because of the length. The good thing about it is that the characters seemed to learn a lesson at the end in spite of the terrible things they had to do to "pay" for their actions. So that part was positive. Definitely a takeoff on some other books I have read recently. Not my favorite book but worth reading. Thanks NetGALLEY!!!!!

A shortie but a fun read! For real, it was fast and it was fun, but exciting.

From the beginning when I first started it I got immediate vibes of, oh this is SO the breakfast club! I knew it was a suspense type book so I knew something had to happen that was UNbreakfast club but the descriptions of the group and way this started it was just so fitting.

But then stuff started to happen, things started to get mysterious and unfold, and then I immediately thought of a movie I had watched, with Jenna Dewan where she basically wreaks havoc on everyone who did her wrong - and I was instantly like, what is going to happen next. I read the entirety of this book in just a short time - less than 2 hours total - but what a party that was.

The whole premise was fun to read on paper and it was just an overall great read for me

Very fast paced and very intriguing. I enjoyed how it kept me hooked and it was an original story. Nowadays so many books read the same. Highly recommend

Remember the 80's movie The Breakfast Club? Of course, you do, it's a teen classic. Well lately, it seems that a common theme amongst new YA novels is The Breakfast Club with a Mystery spin. I have read three books so far with this theme. Six Little Secrets was the second one. In this book, it is Saturday Detention time, and six teens each from a different clique are all in today's session. During the detention, something dark happens and turns out the six are there for a reason, they all are hiding dark secrets, and if they don't follow the instructions given to them and reveal their secrets, then they will be facing the consequences. Who is doing this to them and why? Six Little Secrets was a fast-paced novella though I would consider it more a novel as novellas are short and quick. I have to admit I liked the twist for who the sixth person was as I didn't see that coming. Six Little Secrets is The Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little Liars and perfect for YA Mystery lovers.

This is a teen mystery, 6 teenagers are framed and called to detention when someone starts pranking them. They each have secrets and the ‘pranks’ won’t stop til they’re all out. Very reminiscent of Pretty Little Liars and ‘A’.

I was hoping for a little more from this book, something ‘One of Us Is Lying’ esque. I don’t know if it’s because I’ve read similar books that were much better but I really didn’t think much of this. There were a few typos and inconsistencies but I did read an uncorrected advance copy so that’s to be expected. I felt it was an odd mix of juvenile and adult as it dealt with some very adult themes (teachers sleeping with students, murder, arson) and yet was still very immature at the same time.

It was also very abrupt, all of a sudden the prankster was being revealed. There wasn’t enough build-up before the reveal so it took me aback that we were suddenly being introduced to the prankster and some random ulterior motives.

All in all, not a great read. The writing doesn’t flow that well, there is a consistent lack of dramatic devices and the scene with Q’s challenge should have felt a lot more intense and scary, instead I was confused about what was actually going on. It also feels like a nick from Sara Shepard’s PLL series but not as good.

While I thought the premise of this book, I felt it fell flat at times. It was sometimes dry, the writing was cheesy and felt forced in the beginning chapters, and the characters seemed cartoonish. The tension did keep me on the edge of my seat and I think that was one thing the writer really excelled at. I found that this book could be really amazing and it has pros and cons, but in the end, this was an enjoyable read with problems that could easily be fixed!

Six Little Secrets started off interesting. The first couple of chapters were decent when it came to setting up the book and intriguing me, but after that it all fell apart. I felt like the novella was too short (I realise there's a reason it's called a NOVELLA, but whatever) for this kind of story. There wasn't enough time to set up each of the characters, and I really didn't care about any of them. When the reveal came, I wasn't shocked, because I didn't really care.

I was pretty bored after the first two or three chapters, to be honest. Also, this book is pretty much One of Us is Lying all over again, except OOUIL does everything better.

This was a fun YA thriller- kind of like Breakfast Club with a revenge plot! The characters were all interesting, but maybe could could have been a bit more fleshed out. The plot & story moved along St a good pace. Overall, this was an enjoyable, quick read!

If Pretty Little Liars and The Breakfast Club had a baby, then you would have Six Little Secrets.

Six students who fit YA and high school fiction stereotypes to a t, are forced together in detention one Saturday. Even though none of them realize it they are all connected. What starts off as a busy work task of stapling “alcohol free” promise chains, turns into so much more. When someone starts to mess with them by doling out less than delightful tasks meant to punish them and expose their deepest secret they all band together to solve the mystery of WHO is messing with them, and why.

Six Little Secrets was good. Even though each character fit a stereotype their secrets were still pretty surprising. I guessed a couple of them, but the others kept me guessing. I think the author does a good job giving clues, but putting red herrings in there as well to keep the reader on their toes. Do I think this story was super original... hmm... I’d maybe give it a five out of ten in that department, BUT it was definitely a page turner. Every new task that was unveiled made me want to know more. I needed to know who was messing with these people, and the answer is a pretty darn good one if you ask me.

All in all a pretty good YA suspense.

This book reminded me of the film the breakfast club, with 6 teenagers in it. Plenty of twists in this plot. Easily read

Many thanks to Netgalley and Kaitlyn Duncan for the copy of this book. I agreed to give my unbiased opinion voluntarily.

This makes me think Breakfast Club meets I Know What You Did Last Summer, 2 great movies, so you know this has to be a great book. 6 kids, an unlikely group all land in detention together (could say how & why, but that's a spoiler). The teacher sets them up with busy work and levels the room. Then an odd announcement starts a long, hard Saturday morning. Six Little Secrets keeps you coming back chapter after chapter. It is very well written. It's well edited. The storyline is well thought out and entertaining. The perpetrator is the to explain the connections and the whys. There some interesting twists towards the end. Some little thing that one probably wouldn't think could contribute to a death. This book deserves 5 stars in my opinion, put in you TBR pile, you won't regret it.

Needed more depth. Written as a novella, and supposed to take place over one day, but could have really benefited from being a longer book with more background and character development.

This book seemed familiar to me when I first started reading it then after a couple of chapters I realised it is almost the same as the book called one of us is lying. However I still enjoyed the story and didn’t realise who the culprit was until it was revealed so it kept me guessing! All in all a pleasing read.

There have been a few books similar to this recently- Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little Liars- and each has had it's own unique twist. This one was more Breakfast Club meets Urban Legend but I enjoyed it nevertheless.
A cheerleader, social outcast, popular girl, scholar, rebel and nerd meet at detention only for someone force them to commit acts of embarrassment and humiliation so as not to reveal secrets about them.
The writing style was excellent and I really enjoyed their descriptions and the different voices of the characters.
The characters themselves did feel a little one dimensional and you almost didn't care about their secrets, none of the reveals were especially surprising or that devastating but their 'forfeits' were very clever and entertaining.
The villain was a surprise as was the reason for their connection- no foreshadowing or hints and I was impressed but then the final chapter really let them down. It felt very Disney-esque and was more than a little disappointing.
Overall I would give it 4/5. it was enjoyable but could have ended so much better