Thursday, June 1, 2017

Reprise Review: No Perfect Secret by Jackie Weger


Genre: Romance

Description:

When Anna’s husband of ten years, Kevin, dies while overseas on business, it raises some red flags at the State Department. Anna assumes the government is concerned because Kevin is an international courier, but it’s more complicated than that. The story follows Anna as she tries to piece together her life after Kevin’s death.

Author:

An award-winning author, Jackie Weger has been writing romance novels off and on for thirty years. When she's writing, she's anchored in a tiny room with a desk, a chair and a cat. When not writing, blogging or chatting with fans, she's traipsing around the Internet searching for recipes, but much prefers to travel the good earth by foot, bus, canoe, sloop, mule, train, plane or pickup--and let somebody else do the cooking. Jackie's most popular book to date is The House on Persimmon Road. By popular demand The House on Persimmon Road is now available in paperback.

Appraisal:

Although this novel begins as a romance—Frank, the State department investigator assigned to Anna’s case becomes her love interest—it has a lot of depth and nuance. The mystery that surrounds her husband’s demise is revealed slowly, like multiple layers of skin being stripped from an onion. Even when I thought I’d “got it,” a sudden twist started me wondering again whether I had.

Anna and Frank worked well together as a couple—very different people, but their romantic connection never felt forced. Their obvious physical attraction is constantly challenged by their personal qualms about jumping into a relationship under such unfortunate circumstance.

But, for me, a series of colorful side characters made the book special. Although the storyline followed the romance between Anna and Frank, these neighbors and acquaintances were so varied, interesting, and complex that they kept me smiling, occasionally cringing, and engaged throughout.

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FYI:

Added for Reprise Review: No Perfect Secret was a nominee in the Romance category for B&P 2015 Readers' Choice Awards. Original review ran October 7, 2014

Format/Typo Issues:

Too few to mention.

Rating: ***** Five Stars

Reviewed by: Pete Barber

Approximate word count: 85-90,000 words

3 comments:

Jackie Wegr said...

Whoa! Thank you Big Al and Pete Barber! I blog often that Big Al is the premier indie reviewer in our industry. If Big Al and his staff of volunteer reviewers say an author has a book worthy of buying and reading--that is golden. You guys rock! Thanks again.
High Regards,
Jackie Weger

Dale said...

I've read some of Jackie's books and this one, actually the Almost Perfect trilogy, has been on my TBR forever. Anna and Frank sound great and just the thought of side characters who make you cringe has got me wanting to get in and read about them. I love characters who can make me feel. Thanks for the push Peter Barber.

Traci said...

I loved this book too--Jackie is a wonderful author. Great review!