Book Review - One Last Secret by Adele Parks

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Title: One Last Secret

Author: Adele Parks

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: HQ

Publication Date: 7th July 2022

Rating: 5 Stars

One last client

A week at a beautiful French chateau should be an easy final job for Dora. She’s smart, stunning and discreet.

She only needs to convince the other guests that she’s Daniel’s girlfriend.

One last chance

One final, luxurious week and she can leave the dangerous, difficult escort world, because Dora has fallen in love and is ready to embrace a better future.

One last secret

But as the guests assemble, it becomes terrifyingly apparent that putting her past behind her is impossible. And one last secret could cost Dora everything, including her life…

From the Sunday Times Number One bestseller Adele Parks comes a blisteringly provocative novel about power, sex, money and revenge.

Wow, that was one incredibly addictive story. I literally couldn't get enough of it, and was finding any excuse to pick my my kindle to continue reading. 

I loved the way Dora was talking about the world of being an escort and prostitution in general, it's a great way to see things, and I loved her turn of phrase generally, especially when talking directly to the reader. 

What is very clear is from the first day of what was meant to be her last ever job, which she had been co-erced into, that things were really off at this French Chateau.  I couldn't initially put my finger on it, nor could I be sure who to trust, but I was invested in the story and needed to know what was happening. 

And when we get a section about Dora's past and what lead to her turning to this line of work, I was sucked even further into the story, it's a situation that I'm sure many could potentially find themselves in, although not all would make the same decisions it is totally understandable. 

It is a compulsively gripping read that I am in some ways sorry that I reached the end of as I was quite happily engrossed in the storytelling.  Another winner from Adele Parks. 

Thank you to HQ and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.