This book blew. Me. Away.

I have not been on the edge of my seat this much since Gone Girl. Every twist and turn had me reeling. And then, about halfway through the book, I realized I was cheering for the wrong person!

The action built to an explosive end that left me reeling. And the heroine's final act of kindness made her a better person than I will probably ever be.

But, yeah. I loved, Loved, LOVED this book and cannot wait to read more from this author.

I love the way Jennifer Hillier can pull you in to a book/story immediately. The book starts off with Marin shopping with her son Sebastian just before Christmas when he disappears. One second he's there, the next he's gone. We then jump to over a year later and Sebastian is still missing and Marin is still distraught, attending group therapy sessions with others in a similar situation. She then is called in to her PI's office to find out her husband is cheating on her. She confides in her only real friend Sal, who sympathizes with her and tells her he can help 'fix' her problem. The problems in Marin's life escalate from there...

This book was fast paced as I kept wanting to see what would happen and how Marin would deal with everything. There are several twists in this book that had me wanting to go back and re-read things because I felt like I missed something, but I just kept going and it kept getting better.

A really enjoyable read that kept me guessing and keeps me hating men in general (lol).

Wow, I absolutely loved this book! Every character was so interesting and the twists just kept coming. Could not stop reading it once I started, truly captivating! . Can't wait to recommend this one!

So so good. A very well written and intriguing story. Hillier did an excellent job tying all the “little secrets” together by the end of the novel. Her best book yet. I really loved the main character Marin. She handled her feelings in a way that was a little bit crazy but also seem very real life.

WOW!! What a wild ride Little Secrets turned out to be!! Marin and Derek's 4 year old son is kidnapped and both are dealing with the grief in their own ways. Marin's best friend from college, Sal, is there to help her move on with her life. Vanessa Castro, Marin's private investigator never gives up searching for the boy. These characters move the story along with dramatic twists and turns - my anxiety was intense! I can easily see Little Secrets as being a blockbuster movie. I loved it! Highly recommend!

I really enjoyed this book. I havent read many thrillers lately that I couldnt immediately figure out. I did have a pretty good guess by the time the twist was revealed but it felt validating to know I was right. This book does take some dark turns and have what some may consider triggers but the author does such a good job of being in the main characters head that it felt justified.

Derek and Marin Machado’s life was put at a standstill when their 4 year old went missing from the mall. He was alone for four hundred and eighty seconds, and disappeared with no leads for a year. Marin cannot cope, and the loss is taking its toll on her marriage. Without her husband knowing, Marin hires a PI to continue to search for her son even when the police have stopped looking. When the PI unveils an affair between Derek and a young barista, Marin puts a plan into motion that she may not be able to stop even when it gets out of control. She’s already lost her son, and she can’t afford to lose her marriage also.

I eyed this book on bookstagram, so when I received a copy I opened it immediately. It has all the elements of a good thriller, including plot twists you truly can’t see coming. Hillier makes it easy to get into the mind of Marin and empathize with her loss. This book is original, refreshing, but comes with all the guilty pleasures of a great thriller.

Wow! What a ride!! This starts with a typical trope, a child goes missing but nothing about this thriller is typical! I have already recommended this to my book club to read as soon as it is released!

Thank you to NetGalley, Jennifer Hillier, St. Martin's Press and Minotaur Books for this ARC.

I LOVED this book! This book kept me up late multiple nights, and I never predicted the ending. I especially loved the little shout out to Cedarbrook Lodge, as I've been there multiple times and can attest to it's "somewhat fancy restaurant" (and my sister used to be a chef there).

I can't wait to read more of Jennifer Hillier!

Little Secrets ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5 stars
Marin has it all. The perfect husband, the perfect son, and a successful chain of high end hair salons. She has the perfect life until her 4 year old son goes missing. It's been nearly 2 years and police have stopped looking. Marin soon finds out her husband has been having an affair and everyone has been keeping secrets, including Marin. Little secrets has multiple twists and I think suspense/thriller lovers will thoroughly enjoy. I read this in just 1 day because the story is so captivating and I had to know how it ended! Thank you to Netgalley for this ARC copy in exchange for my honest review.

Starts off with a bang and keeps up the pace throughout. I liked the dual perspective narration, and somehow found myself rooting for main characters who were terribly flawed. I found the twist a bit predictable, but thorough enjoyed the novel anyway. You will speed through this!

I loved Jar of Hearts and Jennifer Hillier’s second book did not disappoint. I was sucked in from the very beginning. This is a page turner that if I’d had the time I would have finished in 1 sitting. When Marin’s son disappears without a trace she can’t cope. She tries to kill herself. She self medicates. Her marriage starts to fall apart. And everyone’s little secrets start to become uncovered. And their secrets aren’t so little.

What a great book! This thriller by Jennifer Hillier is about a child abduction and the struggles a family faces during the unknown. Hillier’s writing kept me wanting to keep turning the pages and I found it very hard to put this book down. I wanted to keep reading and see how everything played out. My only complaint with this book is that it had to end. There were so many twists and turns, some I expected and some I did not, throughout the entire book. I would definitely recommend this one! Hillier’s writing is great and I may have a new favorite author of thrillers!

I received a copy of this ARC from NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press in exchange for my honest review.

A mother loses track of her son for just a moment in a crowded market and just like that he’s taken away from her. 16 months later and still devastated from the loss- always wondering what happened and if her son is alive or dead, she then finds out that on top of everything her husband is cheating on her.

The story weaves a tale of the loss and grief the couples goes through upon the kidnapping of their son but also explores the infidelity of the husband and the unexpected way the wife chooses to handle it. There was one twist in particular that I was surprised about but I suspected the main reveal for a while. All in all a good suspense novel that held my interest.

LITTLE SECRETS
BY JENNIFER HILLIER

WOW!!! JENNIFER HILLIER YOU ROCK!!! I absolutely loved my first read ever of Jennifer Hillier's books called, JAR OF HESRTS. It remains one of my favorites of all time and I own it in both kindle and the hard cover physical copy just to look at and marvel at it in my huge book collection. Whenever I look at that book I feel a warm feeling come over me reminding me what an absolute blast of enjoyment of a reading experience that book was. Jennifer Hillier is the Queen of thrillers and her books are among the very best out there today. Believe me I have been doing this for a few years and I have read all of the other authors who write thrillers and Ms Hillier is far superior than any other out there today. So you can imagine how thrilled I was to receive an early ARC of LITTLE SECRETS. I was so grateful to have been approved and my review is a bit unconventional because I was horrified after READING and LOVING LITTLE SECRETS to notice when I logged on to Good Reads to post my review and read the synopsis of both JAR. OF HEARTS AND LITTLE SECRETS. Especially Little Secrets. which I devoured today in one sitting. Lucky for me I went into reading LITTLE SECRETS totally blind. I did not read the synopsis on the goodreads.com website prior to jumping right in to enjoy it so much because if I had read the sy5opsis first it would have totally ruined my reading ofi Little Secrets. The entire plot is spelled out for the reader on the goodreads.com website for both of these books. So if you readers who are following my reviews and I noticed a few of my goodreads.com friends have marked it to read do not read the goodreads.com synopsis prior to reading either books because it will spoil your enjoyment of self discovery while you are reading these two books. I am not blaming goodreads.com or the publisher for this oversight but whom ever supplied the synopsis of these two books gave away too many details about the plot and I truly hope that it can be revised and described more in general details not so much specific details about who did what. Why read the books if you read those synopsis because they spell out just about everything that happens in the books minus the terrific explosive endings which I think are both brilliant by the way. So my fellow friends and followers if you take away one thing from my review please do yourself a favor if you choose to read these books and do not read the synopsis before reading this book or Jar of Hearts because you will be bored when reading the actual book because there are too much spoiler material and plot details which should be a surprise while you enjoy reading the two novels. I hope that the publisher takes note and does not put the synopsis on goodreads.com on the dust jacket because again it would have spoiled the fun I had of discovering these plot details for myself. Had I read the synopsis for these two books prior to reading them I would have been bored reading them and would have skimmed the novel and read the ending which is the only surprise element left for the reader.

Jennifer Hillier is very gifted and talented and as far as thrillers go she is the best in the business. In Little Secrets it is about a child abduction which has been done over and over in today's books on psychological thrillers. In little Secrets Ms. Hillier is an author that wrote a superb novel that is both fresh and unique. The plot is so interesting and she created a main character in Marin that you will love because she could be any one of us. I felt her anguish and guilt over the loss of her son so much that I was thanking my lucky stars that both of my son's are 18 and 21 and all I have to worry about is keeping two boys alive from the ages of 16 through 25 because that is the most dangerous period where so many things could happen if they act irresponsible or if they fall in with the wrong crowd. Getting back Little Secrets Marin is a loving and very devoted mother who takes her eyes off her young son Sebastion whom is so sweet and Marin picks up her phone to read a text message from her husband and because they are hot her arms are full carrying their coats and Christmas presents and boom just like that her son is gone and she beats her self up with undeserved blame for taking her eyes off of her son for less than three minutes. As I said it could happen to anyone of us in the Christmas season which today turns into a nightmare right after Thanksgiving for the Black Friday sales and it becomes a sea of people everywhere you go up until after New Years. That the crowds are so overwhelming makes a rich environment for an opportunity for a young boy of four years old to be snatched by a pedophile whom is hiding out in plain sight ready and prepared to snatch a vulnerable child.
Acting as Santa Claus what child wouldn't happily trust Santa Clause and jump at the chance to be prey for the person who comes to these overcrowded shopping centers and lies in wait for the chance to lure even the little children who know better than to go off with a stranger because let's face it we all teach our young children not to go off with strangers.

Marin is like us she blames herself and I felt for her. I felt the anguish of not knowing whom has her child. I felt the runaway imagination of all that could be possibly happening to my own child at any age that happens to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. I understood how she wanted to die as I would feel the same way if something happened to one of my son's let alone an only child. She couldn't have more children which frankly does not in any way shape or form replace your beloved child whom is missing. Marin is a very strong female protagonist but still I felt her struggle to move through her life haunted by thoughts of not knowing where your child is. I felt her pain and suffering from the chasm that any marriage would be stained or fall apart if you are so unlikely to experience what this very successful couple who has been happy and thriving as a family but to lose a child and if the child is not found in the first twenty four hours there are three outcomes. To have the police and the FBI to stop looking for your innocent child is heartbreaking and I would never give up just as Marin never gives up. She hires a former woman police officer whom is now a private investigator to take a second look at all of this power couples friends and acquaintances and customers because they both have thriving uber successful businesses. I am going to treat myself today to read WONDERLAND by Jennifer Hillier because there was less described plot points when I was looking on goodreads.com for her other books and I was intrigued to find less spoilery plot in WONDERLAND and I liked the idea that the private investigator named Vanessa is a recurring character as a former police officer. I plan to read every single one of Jennifer Hillier's novels and acquire them in kindle and if I can find them in first editions first printings in hard cover I will be thrilled to purchase them.

This is in no way a criticism when I implore whomever supplies the synopsis of LITTLE SECRETS to goodreads.com websight or Amazon not to keep the spoilery details of these two titles. In a thriller we want suspense and when we read too many plot points about these books in a blurb or synopsis it takes the enjoyment from the reader. Why bother reading the book when most of the bones are laid out in the books description? Please revise these two titles when future printings are released to stick to generalizations and less specific plot summaries where there is too much spoilery information about these two titles. Whomever wrote these plot descriptions seriously needs to revise the synopsis that currently exist. Please don't put so many specific details on the dust jacket when Little Secrets is published on April 31, 2020. There is still time to revise the description of the plot and remember as a thriller reader I want to find out details while I read the book. I was lucky because I didn't read the spoilery details of the plot that exists for both of these titles. If I had the books would have been boring and I would know too much and skim the book rather than savor every page until both of these reach the climax of the outstanding explosive endings. I was going to re read Jar of hearts because enough time has gone by and I had forgotten the details until I read the descriptions on goodreads.com and now I don't want to read the book again because I feel I read the book by reading the plot summary on goodreads.com. Again, this is in no way a criticism. I am trying to be helpful and address an issue that for me personally after going into these books knowing very little is what made them a favorite and I appreciated not knowing who had something to do with it namely it suggests that Derek might be involved. That would have ruined it for me and I want this book and Jar of Hearts to be thrilling for all of my friends and followers whom I noticed have marked these books to be read..
Child abductions have been done too many times already in the past couple of years so the less the reader knows the greater the rollercoaster ride reading these books are. I find them written very well and I am a fan of Jennifer Hillier and plan to start the New Year with reading the rest of her plus because I know that she delivers on every level of both plot and rich characterizations. I can count on her books to be better thrillers based on my experience reading these two titles. I trust that whatever she writes I am going to devour her novels in one sitting. With Little Secrets it grabbed me on the first page and never let me go until the last chapter and I had things I had to do but I kept saying one more chapter and I failed to come to a part in the book to put it down and get something to drink and eat. I literally was captivated from the very first page and there wasn't a full moment throughout reading either one of these titles when I could reach a full moment and set the book aside. This would not have happened if I had come across the goodreads.com synopsis. I apologize if I am beating a dead horse by reiterating my points about less is more and there hopefully is a way to remedy this problem so future readers can have the same honor of enjoyment and fascinating reading experience as I did. I know that it is not easy being a writer and I myself am a reader not a writer. I sincerely hope my review does not offend but offer insight in how to make this a bestseller. My review is slightly different on goodreads.com because I can not copy and paste my written reviews to post the exact same thoughts everytime I post it. I will post a different review but stick to the same main points that I have discussed here. I am so extremely grateful to be an early treader of both of these titles. I was so pumped when I saw Little Secrets on my Net Galley shelf I immediately picked that to dive into first in my list. I am a fan of Jennifer Hillier and think she is a brilliant writer and I trust her to not have to know exactly what the book is about because I know anything she writes is going to be a five star read and a favorite for all time.

Thank you to Net Galley, Jennifer Hillier you are my Beyoncee and a special thank you to Minataur Books for so generously providing me with my ARC in exchange for a fair and honest review. All opinions are my own.

Publication Date April 21, 2020

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This book had everything that I was wanting from my next read and I flew through it in a few days. The way the author writes has the reader wanting to keep on reading. This had a good amount of surprises in it that were well placed throughout the story and I really enjoyed how she told the story. I will definitely be checking out the other books by this author. Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for this one!

I find most psychological thrillers to fall flat for me. Usually, everyone loves them but I struggle to find what is so captivating. However, not the case with this book. It held my attention from the first page and I was invested in the main character and her emotions as she struggled to move on after the disappearance of her child. I thought that the characters in the support group were a wonderful addition. Just knowing that these are real problems for people is chilling. The book kept me guessing and, I am pleased to say, I never saw the twist coming! I did not do my usual "skim till the end" and I had no idea who the villain would be. Highly recommend. This author is becoming a new favorite!

This book pulls you and doesn’t let you go. It’s a fast read but isn’t missing anything. It’s soul twisting, nerve racking first beginning to end. You will cry, you will hire imaginary hit man, you will laugh. All the makings of a masterpiece.

This book grabbed me by the throat right from the very beginning and didn’t let go. The author’s writing style just had me hooked and I just had to race through and find out the details. Many lies and deceptions throughout the story and such a fine line between love and hate make for an exciting fast paced thriller. Loved every minute of it. Well done! #LittleSecrets #JenniferHillier #NetGalley

It is no surprise that I absolutely LOVED Jar of Hearts (and it will be a top 5 of 2019 when I do my round up later this month) and Hillier's latest book didn't disappoint! I was given an ARC (advanced reading copy) through NetGalley, so it will be quite a while before this comes out to read. I would definitely recommend this book.

While I dont give it resounding 5 stars like most others, I did read it quickly and was kept very engrossed the entire time. When the story line finally clicks into place, you'll wonder why you never connected the dots up until that point. It was well constructed, thoughtful and certainly clever.

My only gripe is that I wish they had focused more on the original storyline (you will see) and helped build that more into the narrative. The book took a quick turn and focused on something completely different (which does make sense in the end), but again, would have liked it to be more prominent.