Give Me Your Hand

from Beamis12

Cunning and clever. Kit meets Diana at school, both runners, both work harder than anyone else, both want to win the scholarship sponsored by the reknown Dr. Severin. Only one, however, will win this prize. A secret is a secret only when the one with the secret never tells. Diane has a big secret...

from therestlessmouse

Partially a slog, but overall a page turner, with a twist. Kind of odd. I didn't take to another Little Free Library because it's gory in places, probably not for younger readers.

from flourgirl49

I've enjoyed Megan Abbott's other books, but this one . . . not so much. It's very dark, which I usually like, but I felt like I needed to take a shower after I finished reading it. The characters are all thoroughly unlikeable, slippery, enigmatic, and annoying, although I think a lot of that was...

from cmt100

I enjoyed her previous book, You Will Know Me, a lot, but I was bored and irritated with this one and gave up a third of the way through. She tries to extend the suspense re what the Big Secret is a very long time, and it just doesn't hold up. Too bad. A novel about women scientists would be great.

from fhudnell

A psychopath, a patsy and an ethically challenged scientist meet in an absurd plot. Kit Owens and Diane Fleming were friends for a short time when they were in high school. Diane shared a terrible secret with Kit and it ended the friendship. It was pathetically easy to figure out what this secret...