Secrets So Deep definitely has a brooding teenage mystery feel to it, complete with a heroine with a lost memory, a dead mother and a reunion with a childhood friend that she immediately has romantic feelings for. The heroine is Avril, whose mother drowned under mysterious circumstances at Whisper Cove when Avril was five years old. Avril was pulled from the water as well, and remembers nothing of what happened, but it starts coming back in bits and pieces when she returns to the area for a four week acting workshop with her mother's best friend from college, Willa. She quickly falls for Cole, Willa's son and her childhood friend, but Cole has demons of his own. There are multiple people, in fact, that seem to have stuck around over the years, and are still bearing the burden of the death of Nicole Kendrick, Avril's mother. Which means that as parts of Avril's memory come back, there are plenty of people still hanging around that could have been complicit in Nicole's death. Between this, the fog, and the water, it sets an atmospheric and tragic tone with a haunting feel to it. This would make it enjoyable for most teenage girls, but the book also feels limiting in nature. Avril is naturally cast as the lead opposite Cole in the workshop's play, written by Cole's mother (and what made her famous). The play is portrayed as being rehearsed in sequential order, which may add intensity to the book but doesn't feel authentic. It also doesn't feel like a Broadway sensation, Tony award winning play - meaning it might have been better to hint at the storyline rather than write out dialogue for it. The book also under utilizes Val, Lex and Jude, the friends that Avril makes at camp. They seem to be willing to do anything for Avril as she slowly loses her sense of reality but they never really develop beyond that - leaving the reader to wonder what happens with her friendship with them, and the relationship budding between Lex and Jude. The story also doesn't seem to provide any real conclusion to Avril's relationship with her dad. While he's a bit player in the story, their relationship is strained because of the loss of her mother, and Avril eventually piecing together what happened to her mother feels like a missed opportunity for her to sort some things out with her dad. Note that this is a little bit of a spoiler, but not to what happens with major plot points. In summary, this might be great for the primary target audience as a frothy moodily romantic read, but it needs more oomph to it to be a really good book. A complimentary copy of this book was provided by the publisher. All thoughts and opinions are my own.