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Ik Weet Wat Je Denkt (2000)

by Elizabeth George(Favorite Author)

3.45 of 5 Votes: 5

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English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

series

Saratoga Woods

review 1: When I read The Edge of Nowhere, I enjoyed the story abut wasn't all that impressed. However, it had a cliffhanger ending which led to there being no choice to reading the sequel.FAITH RENEWED!!!!!LOVED this book. So many secrets on Whidbey Island!!! So many lies and half truths that all lead to a tangled mess that can only be solved by truths. And with another ending leaving you needing the next piece? I shall be looking forward to what the secrets of the island hold in the third book!
review 2: This book continues the story begun by author George, in The Edge of Nowhere. Becca King is now living in a treehouse provided by Seth. She still remains in hiding from her stepfather. She and Derric are officially a couple, but Derric is having trouble with the secret... mores and the Seth thing. What are they to each other? Why can't Derric know the secrets Seth knows? This eventually leads to a breakup and to Derric taking up with Courtney, high school "it" girl.On a side note, Jenn McDaniels, sworn Becca enemy, is trying to get ready for soccer tryouts that will allow her to make a team that will give her a chance at a scholarship so that she can get off the island and go to school. Those plans are derailed when Annie Taylor, marine biologist PhD student shows up and ropes Jenn into helping. Annie's interest is a seal named Nera that returns yearly to the area and is all black. She wants to prove it's a new kind of seal or a genetic mutation so that her thesis will be star material. Jenn and Annie develop a loose but stressed relationship. Annie is very different and Jenn finally learns why when Annie reveals that she is bisexual and has a girlfriend back home. This eventually leads to Jenn questioning her own sexuality; or rather, it being questioned for her by Annie. In the end Jenn is still questioning. Plus Jenn is curious about the strange mute woman who has shown up. Where'd she come from?Another side story: Derric and Courtney take up with each other after Derric and Becca call it quits. Their relationship is fraught with DESIRE from the beginning. They both find it increasingly difficult to keep their hands off each other and remain celibate. Derric is struggling because he wants intimacy to feel right and be with the right person; Courtney because her faith requires celibacy. In the end the pair do indeed have intercourse. Derric is unsettled by the whole experience but Courtney believes in cements their relationship for all time.Yet another side note: Becca has begun working for/with Ivar Thorndyke and Sharla Mann. This couple co-habitats but are not involved with each other. Right away, Becca feels that something is off about these two. Ivar knows something interesting about the seal that Annie Taylor is so interested in. And he is bound and determined to keep everyone away from the seal. Through her "whispering" detection, Becca also learns that Sharla is keeping secrets as well. When she locates baby clothes in an old trunk her imagination goes wild. Then there's Eddie, the local loon. Becca encounters him with Diana Kinsale, out on the beach, with a rifle, vowing to "kill her." Neither Becca or Diana know who "her" is. Eddie continues to act erratically throughout the novel.There are several other plots going on as well. None of them come together really well in the end. Readers learn that the mute woman is the daughter of Nera the seal. Both women are selkies.The Derric/Courtney sideline didn't add anything to the story. The Annie/Jenn sexuality issues didn't add anything either. I felt like there was a good story in there somewhere, but George never quite got there. less

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