⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 4 stars
All Your Twisted Secrets is a story about six teenagers, who are locked in a room together with a bomb going off in one hour, forced to choose one person to kill if they want to stop the bomb.

“It wasn’t our mistakes that defined us, but how we learned to overcome them. Everyone should have a chance to overcome theirs”

I don’t own a physical copy of this book, but listened to it while driving to and from work (really a great time to listen to books haha). I have had this book on my “want to buy” list for some time and seeing it on Storytell I decided to listen to it.

Classed as similar to One of Us if Lying and Agatha Christi books, which I both love, I had high hopes for this book. I love good mystery books and the way the mystery keeps unfolding and keeps you guessing is something I love. I had hopes for this book the be like that.

The opening really was attention grabbing from the very start. Being locked in a room with multiple others and a bomb present was really shocking. The way the chapters were named with time left of time before the date was also cleverly done.

I liked the writing style in present time. The writing style in the past seemed a bit slower. With the way the chapters alternated between past and present, it sometimes broke the pacing of the story a bit. When something really shocking happened in the present and suddenly a slower chapter from the past came next, it broke the flow a bit. I also wasn’t as invested in all that had happened, but wanted to know what was going to happen.

The characters were nice. I liked Amber, but it didn’t really seem as if she’d grown all that much. Even with the alternating chapters, she seemed quite the same; driven, determined and sometimes a bit egoistic in her pursuit.

The ending really felt a bit anticlimactic to me. The whole time, everything that happened in that room and the secrets that were revealed kept upping up the tension and the build-up to the big reveal. The reveal in the end didn’t seem worthy of the big build-up before. I didn’t really like it.

Spoiler

Amber being the one behind it all was really expected to be honest, as in all the chapters there wasn’t really a reason for her to have been locked up in that room because of something she did or a secret she has.

Overall, it was a good mystery story, but the ending wasn’t as explosive as I would’ve expected it to be.