Cassie Robichaud is a thirty-five-year-old employee at Cafe Rose with a daily life full of routine. Her life has been on stand-by since she lost her partner, an event that was both liberating and condemning. She hasn't had any relationship with a man for five years. But one day, when her curiosity pushes her to read a little book forgotten at hand, a new future appears before her, impossible to avoid. But, above all, impossible to imagine.

The novel is well written. Often very informal, narrated entirely from the protagonist's point of view. The events are clear, described with a vocabulary that is never too heavy or excessively enriched with details. For my tastes, it's a good middle ground.

The plot unfolds in a pleasant manner, although I find some passages a little too repetitive. On the other hand, it's the common thread that anyone who wants to read the novel will discover. Having said that, the novel falls into a genre where sexuality is not hidden behind "they got under the covers and got up the next morning": no, SECRET looks a little further. The scenes are described quite explicitly (not in excess, but certainly more than a common romance novel), even if these are precisely the parts in which I found schematic features recalled in an almost identical way. In short, the genre it seems to fall into is Erotic.

To give an idea of how it unfolds, this book talks the routine of a woman touched by a trauma, leading her to self-discovery aimed at taking back control of her existence. In some ways I found it a bit superficial in some passages, but in the end I think this lack of depth makes the reading more understandable and less nagging. For the rest I can't point out any particularities: I liked the novel.