Why Do We Love to Read about Secrets?

by G.G. Andrew

Secrets: awkward in real life, but so delicious to read about.

It’s no, um, secret, that characters keeping information from other characters has made all sorts of stories, from primetime Tv to the romances we read, so much juicier. A secret is different than a plot twist–a surprise nobody saw coming, including the main characters and the reader. Secrets in books are often when you asthe reader know something, or at least have hints at it, but one of the people in the taleyou’r...