No One Needs To Know by Amanda Grace

This was a sweet contemporary read with a lovely romance, but it was a rare instance of a book actually being too short.  I wanted it to be longer and I think it needed to be longer and if it had been I think I'd have been looking at something approaching a five star read.

Liam and Olivia are twins and had always been inseparable until Liam joined a different school.  They start to drift apart and Olivia has to compete for Liam's attention and by driving away his girlfriends.  This is until Zoey comes on the scene, and Olivia has to decide who deserves happiness more - her or her brother.

There was a good lead up to the romance and I liked that Olivia and Zoey were friends first and then realised their feelings for each other.  There were so many good aspects to this book - I liked the writing style, which was concise and non-waffley, I liked the characters, I liked the story arc.  I just needed more background and more actual plot.

Another odd thing (I thought) was that this was a novel about two bisexual girls (I'm assuming they were bi - both mention being with boys before they were with each other), only the B-Word never gets mentioned.  Like, not once.  It would have been great if this book had have explored the girls' sexual identity a bit more.

Likewise, I got that Olivia really missed hanging out with Liam like they used to, but only because she kept saying it.  I needed to have a bit more background into their relationship.  Twins have a really fascinating dynamic and this could have been explored a bit more.  Liam didn't get enough of a look-in and he was a character that would have been worth expanding.

All in all an okay read, if you want something quite light and flim-flam where you don't have to concentrate too much.

3.5 stars