The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes by Diane Chamberlain Also by this author: The Bay At Midnight
Published by MIRA on January 1, 2008
Genres/Lists: Fiction
Pages: 522
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Once again, Diane Chamberlain does not disappoint. I’m sure I have said this before, but she is quickly moving up the ranks to my top 5 favorite authors. This book, like most of her books, takes place in two separate decades. This book takes place in the 1970’s, when CeeCee Wilkes falls for an older man who draws her into a series of decisions that will change her life forever, including creating an entirely new life for herself as Eve Bailey. The rest of the book takes place thirty years later and chronicles her new life and culminates in the decisions she must make when the past rears its ugly head.
Unlike some of her other books, I feel like she did a better job of transitioning out characters that were no longer needed in the story. The only problem that I had was that the “new life” that CeeCee created for herself was a little bit too easy. There was no mention of her past life or of missing her old friends, which is pretty unrealistic and I think the author missed out on a chance to garner more empathy for CeeCee from the reader.
