Secret Diaries: Temptation

This trilgy of stories is the reason I love to read so much! I remeber back in 7th grade, I picked this book up on a whim, and I couldn't put the darn thing down until I read every single word! I highly recommed this one, as well as the other two in the series.

Joanna just moved to live with her father in a new place where she doesn't know anyone. When she starts to fit in with a certain group she learns that this group has a secret. While falling in love with Penn, a member of the group, she doesn't realize how much trouble she is getting herself into until it is too late and she already knows their deep and dark secret.

Janice Harrell is a good author who knows how to write a story within a story. When you first start reading the book, you want to know who Laurie was and what happened to her, but then you change your focus on Joanna and wondering about her. She's struggling to fit in a group somewhere so she feels that she belongs. Family life isn't a place for her, so she tried to get in a clique a school. Then you get entangled again with Laurie's life and you are reading about both of their lives. I really like Joanna's character, and also the character of Penn. Casey gets on my nerves, but I think he's supposed to, so the writer does her job! The end leaves you hanging of course and its on to read #2, "The Betrayal".

Harper wanted to find someone to take L. J. Smith's place after she went to Archway and this is the untalented writer they find. Its interesting that this book (The Secret Diaries) takes a word out of each of Smith's successful Harper triologies (The Secret Circle & Vampire Diaries), but her book is dull, the characters plastic the plot idiotic. And then she will write the Vampire Twins Trilogy which like the Vampire Diaries will have a 4th book (not a common feature in trilogies) Can you possibly have a more blatent copycat?

Janice Harrell is a great author, but never have I read one of her books without putting it down. Temptation was a page turning thriller. I recommended it to all my friends and when they read they told it how good it was. One of the reason's why I read is because of books like this!!!!!!!!!