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Sec4rets by A. L. Burgos
Description
We all have
secrets...
Mark, Tiffany, Kevin
and Kim are best friends. When they enter High School together they find out
that it's not all fun and games as they find out that drama is involved. They
must stick together to get through High School but when they start to keep
secrets from each other, ones that can tear them apart, their friendships will
be tested as the secrets come out. So will their friendships survive or will
the secrets be too much and tear them apart? Let the secrets come out...
Review
By Katherine
Christina Rochholz
I will give this 4 out of 5 stars
I loved this book. I
normally do not read this type of book, teenage drama was never my thing. I
went through enough of it as a teenager. But I loved this book! I wanted more,
there were the characters you loved, the characters you loved to hate… those
you just plain hated… those you related to… I won’t go into much detail because
people should read this book, it deals with a lot of real issues. It is a quick
read, I read it in just a day. I loved some of the characters and hated others.
I had my ideas about who it was that knew the secrets. It was a fast paced book
that kept you on the edge of your seat, leaving you wanting more, and leaving
you loving and hating the characters. I would recommend it for older teens and
young adults, there is some language to it, but what teen doesn’t say a cuss word
now and then.
Now why did it get 4 and not five if I loved it so much? There
were parts where I had to go back and reread just make sure that I knew what
was going on. Within chapters you transition from one character to another, and
there is no space no clear transition. The other thing though I love dialogue,
it seemed there were some parts that needed more, there could have been more
details of a scene or the facial expressions of the characters. There is so
much you can get from dialogue but sometimes the dialogue needs a little help.
There were some other little details that didn’t really make too much sense but
they are forgivable.
I am very excited to know there is a book two because I so
want more of these characters. So if you want teen drama you have found it with
this book. It is an edge of your seat roller-coaster ride of drama and
breathtaking moments that create characters you will love to hate, and hate to
love. A great first novel from A. L. Burgos!
Excerpt
The sun was beginning to come up. The birds were chirping as they flew
from tree to tree. The New York streets were wet from the nights rain. Cars
zoomed down the streets as people made their way to work. A alarm clock rang on
a nightstand next to the bed of one Tiffany Gomez. She slowly opened her eyes
and stared at the ceiling. The radio played some song that Tiffany did not
know. She looked over at her alarm clock. 7:00am blinked in big red lights. She
rubbed her eyes and slammed her hand down on the clock. She laid there under
her covers for a few minutes. She knew she had to get up but her body was
telling her to stay still. The first day of High School loomed in her mind. She
knew it wasn’t going to be as fun as she seen on TV.
“Damn it.” She finally
spoke. Her body was finally letting her get up from her bed. She made her way
down the hall to the bathroom where she would shower the night away. She stood
there under the warm water and she thought to herself. There would be a lot of
old people from Junior High there, so that was a plus. On the other hand there
would be a bunch of new people she didn’t know. Ones that she knew would be
rude and ones that she knew would try so hard to be her friend. She kind of
felt relaxed more with the thought of the rude ones. She hated people who tried
to befriend her when she didn’t like them. It was her number one pet peeve.
“Can you hurry up?”
Joseph yelled at the top of his voice. Joseph is Tiffany’s younger brother. He
was starting his first day of Junior High and he was overly excited.
“I’m coming out now.” She
yelled back. They didn’t have the best brother sister relationship but they
didn’t have the worst either. They would argue over the dumbest things but what
brother and sister didn’t.
When their father passed
away 2 years ago Tiffany was in Junior High and Joseph was still in elementary.
Joseph knew about death but he wasn’t fully aware of what it meant. Tiffany had
to be strong for her brother who had sleepless nights. He had dreams of his
father buried under ground with worms eating his eyes. He would cry almost
every night. Tiffany didn’t have time to grieve cause her mother and brother
were a mess. She tried to keep them calm until one day Tiffany had enough. She
called her best friend Mark over for a sleepover. As they laid on her bed
watching a movie Tiffany broke down in tears. She cried so hard that she
couldn’t breathe. She felt so much better after that cry. She had finally
released the hurt and pain that was inside. Her and Mark just stood there
holding each other.
“Mom said to hurry up
breakfast is on the table and I need to shower.”
“I am coming.” She yelled
with a tone of annoyance added in with anger.
Tiffany stepped out the
shower and tied the towel around her body. She walked over to her room so she
could dry off and get dressed. There on her computer desk stood her Blackberry.
She picked it up and looked at the screen, no missed calls or text messages.
Tiffany was hoping that Mark had tried to contact her. After they graduated
from Junior High School Mark decided to leave New York and go to Pennsylvania.
Mark didn’t tell Tiffany anything about his plans, it was Mark’s parents who
had informed her of his plans. All Summer he had been ignoring her calls and
texts. Her best friend had abandoned her.
From the Author
I want to introduce myself, my name is Anthony Luis Burgos and I am an
aspiring writer. As a young child I loved to write, it became a big part of my
life. I am now 27 years old and have finished my book, the first book I ever
wrote that I am self publishing.
All my life I have had people tell me to
publish my books but I never knew how to do that. I Googled publishing and it
seemed nearly impossible to get published. Now with the likes of Nook, Kindle
and iBooks anyone can get your books published and make money from it.
I
finished my first teen drama book entitled Sec4rets
last month and I am so pleased with it. The writing process was one filled with
so many emotions. I went through being happy, angry, sad, confused, and lost.
When I write I write for a reason and that is to have people out there relate
to something, so when I wrote some scenes in my book I did cry. There were also
times where I lost my way and felt like I wouldn't finish the book at all, I
didn't know where I wanted the book to go or how I wanted the characters to be.
I was in a major writers block point for about a whole month. I sat back and
took that month off and just let ideas come to me, and low and behold they came
like a tidal wave and I was back to writing my book again.
As a writer I had my
writing process in mind, not all authors have the same state of mind for their
project but I had my way and it worked. At the beginning of writing I had the
characters names, the storylines and the ending. I feel that you should have a
ending before you start writing so that when you start writing you have a idea
of how it should flow, so that it can get to that final chapter and final scene
you have in your head. I may have changed some of the story lines a few from
time to time but the ending always stayed the same in my head. The funny thing
is that this is a teen drama series and I already have the ending for the final
book (which is number 8 lol) and now I know what I need to do to get to that
ending that I yearn to reach.
Overall the writing process is very fun but at
times can be very stressful because I do have friends waiting to read it and I don't
want to let them down. I am excited for everyone to read it and I am already
working on book 2 and have my writing process all in my head….ending and all…"
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