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This was my first read by Diane Chamberlain - and trust me, it won't be my last. Have already started on the next one and I have a LOT of books in my queue! I really enjoy how the author writes - she goes directly to my feelings, my understanding of the characters. There is no 'fluff'. I was driven throughout the book to reach the conclusion.

A few highlighted passages to try to demonstrate why I like Chamberlain's writing:

"I think the important thing about making a decision is just to make it. Otherwise you can go nuts thinking about the pros and cons. So, when it comes to making a decision, look at both sides, listen to your heart, then pick one and dive in."

"That's your baby.", Naomi nodded at the infant. "Look at her in your arms. Tell me she doesn't feel like yours." CeeCee replied "She doesn't, she feels like something I stole." Naomi replies, "No, she's something you saved."

The most poignant parts of the entire novel were CeeCee's letters from her Mom. Chamberlain starts some of her chapters with one of the letters, which psychologically fit in perfectly with the upcoming chapter. The mother's final letter brought me to my knees - and it was the perfect ending to the story.


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The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes Diane Chamberlain 9780778325314 Books Reviews

The book started out slow for me. And then it escalated VERY rapidly. It was like a book on steroids.

***SPOILERS***

I found it difficult to believe that a girl would say yes to kidnapping someone for a man she loves (that she only recently had gotten to "know"). I suppose stranger things have happened, though. After the actual kidnapping and when "real life" begins with the baby, that's when the book REALLY captured my attention.

I don't exactly know what it is about the book that is so spellbounding. There's fear, deceit, love, "strangulation", severe phobias, courage, and finally...truth. This book is heartbreaking to me. The beginning made me so angry, but the middle to the end broke my heart completely. It's amazing how you can feel compassion and a sort of understanding for a criminal.

I really recommend this book. I read it all night long because I couldn't put it down. See what it does for you. Like it, love it, or hate it, I think this is the type of book that makes you really think and it stays with you.
I actually purchased this book on accident but I am so glad I did! Once you are 20 min into the book, it becomes impossible to put it down. You can pretty much predict what is going to happen in the end but you have no idea how it is going to get to that point. Very well written with well developed characters. I would definitely recommend this book.
I have read a number of this author's books and have enjoyed each and every one. She is a born storyteller. Her books are always entertaining. This one is no exception. It is the story of a young, naive woman whose hopes and dreams get derailed by love and a singular error in judgment. It is an error that would be life changing and forever hang as a dark thunder cloud over her head , until one day it simply bursts, and nothing will every be the same.

This book reads as if it were directed at a young adult audience. I also found the characters to be not as fully fleshed as usual, and the book seemed to me more plot driven. Still, I did find the plot to be rather interesting. It revolves around the disappearance of a high profile, pregnant woman in 1979. When her remains are found twenty years later, minus the child, our protagonist is the only one who holds the key to what happened. She has to make a difficult decision that could destroy her carefully constructed life. The only question is is whether the truth will set her free.
CeeCee Wilkes was a vulnerable, sixteen-year-old girl who had lived in foster homes after the death of her mother when she was twelve.

The letters she carried with her, the ones her mother had written to serve as a guide to her as she matured, would be her only touchstone. But nothing in her mother's letters or the life she'd lived could have prepared her for the charming, manipulative Tim Gleason.

The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes begins with a prologue in the present, with a young woman named Corinne, who watches as the woman she knew as her mother confesses a horrendous secret in front of TV cameras.

We then flash back to 1977, and to an event that changed CeeCee's life forever.

In alternating narratives told by Corinne, by CeeCee, and then Eve Elliott, the persona she took on while in hiding, we learn about the fear and vulnerability the young girl faced one terrible night in a remote cabin, and how she spent the next period of her life in hiding. And tried over the years to be the best mother she could be to the baby she "stole" in order to protect her.

What really happened in that remote cabin? What would finally bring the truth out? What price would CeeCee (Eve) have to pay for telling her story? And how would Corinne bury the bitterness and anger she feels in order to reach out to the woman she knew as her mother?

This was a story that spotlighted many issues of morality and choice, and which allows the reader to root for CeeCee despite her wrong choices. I could not stop reading or caring about the characters, flawed though they were. I loved this story and would recommend it for all who enjoy family stories and for those who are fans of Chamberlain. 5.0 stars.
This was my first read by Diane Chamberlain - and trust me, it won't be my last. Have already started on the next one and I have a LOT of books in my queue! I really enjoy how the author writes - she goes directly to my feelings, my understanding of the characters. There is no 'fluff'. I was driven throughout the book to reach the conclusion.

A few highlighted passages to try to demonstrate why I like Chamberlain's writing

"I think the important thing about making a decision is just to make it. Otherwise you can go nuts thinking about the pros and cons. So, when it comes to making a decision, look at both sides, listen to your heart, then pick one and dive in."

"That's your baby.", Naomi nodded at the infant. "Look at her in your arms. Tell me she doesn't feel like yours." CeeCee replied "She doesn't, she feels like something I stole." Naomi replies, "No, she's something you saved."

The most poignant parts of the entire novel were CeeCee's letters from her Mom. Chamberlain starts some of her chapters with one of the letters, which psychologically fit in perfectly with the upcoming chapter. The mother's final letter brought me to my knees - and it was the perfect ending to the story.