20 January

❥ ARC REVIEW ❥ TWISTED CIRCLES (SECRET SOCIETY #2) BY CLAIRE CONTRERAS

TITLE: Twisted Circles

SERIES: Secret Society #2

AUTHOR: Claire Contreras

GENRE: Romance

PUBLICATION: July 13th, 2020

- SYNOPSIS -

When someone tells you who you are, do you believe them?

The first question the cops asked me was if anything out of the ordinary happened to me lately.

When I woke up this morning in the room of a mental institution I couldn’t remember a thing – not my name nor how I got there. Not how I left or how I ended up in that interrogation room.

The only thing I knew came from the contents inside my bag. A wallet, a student ID, a key that opened an unknown door, and two notebooks.

They tell me my name. It matches my IDs.

They tell me my story. I shut my eyes and try to piece it together, but can’t.

They tell me why they picked me up in the first place. They thought I was my sister. My brain stays stuck there. I try to rewind and fast-forward, as if my memories were on a videotape, but it’s no use. I can’t recall having a sister.

They put me back in the car and drop me off in front of a mansion they call The Manor and I discover what the mysterious key in my backpack opens the front door, and just as quickly wish I’d never unlocked it at all.

- MY REVIEW -

'TWISTED CIRCLES'
is the second full length romance book in Claire Contreras 'Secret Society' series. This can be read as a standalone. Spoken in 'Dual Perspectives.'

Like the first book we're thrust back in the same environment where we found ourselves in the first book, and like beforehand mystery yet again surrounds this establishment, another person has been reported missing, now it's up to one girl to go in as someone else and uncover the truth.

Eva Guerra has no apparent memory of what happened to her a few days ago, leaving her confused and bewildered, but is determined to find out exactly what happened to her. People close to her are only to quick to give her detailed accounts of where she'd been and what she'd been doing. All she recalls was waking up at the institute, walking out, and the next thing she'd been picked up by the cops and taken to the station to be interrogated, having no idea why. But ask her what her job was and she could remember that she's a teachers assistant at a small parish school whilst studying her elementary education.

Whilst there they show her a picture, which looks like her but isn't her, and it's then she learns that she has a twin sister, Stella who has gone missing. Eva's mission is to take Stella's place in the Manor.
Once Eva steps foot on Ellis University things start getting interesting. She's first introduced to Adam whose the president of the 'Swords,' and her sponsor. Nothing is as it seems. Everyone has a role to play, everyone is keeping secrets, and we've got a front row seat as we watch it all unfold. Who can she trust? Whose telling the truth?

The 'Swords' is a historically male driven society, very few woman are actually chosen, but to join like many before her she has to survive the initiation.

This was such an intricate tale, the plot kept me intrigued, the anticipation of uncovering facts and fiction had me speeding through the pages, uncovering buried truths a century old had me enjoying this ride the author put me on.