The book is about a girl named Cassie who was in a bad marriage, and when her husband died she lost herself. She works as a waitress in New Orleans and has been in the same routine/funk for the past five years. One day, a regular leaves behind a notebook, and Cassie reads part of it. It's a pretty scandalous journal, and it introduces Cassie to a group called S.E.C.R.E.T. that is all about helping women find themselves again, or gain some confidence. She starts this journey with the group and learns a lot about herself along the way, and starts to get her life back together.
There were a couple things I didn't like about this book. First, once the "sexy time" started, the story itself kind of fell off. It became a string of these encounters, and while those are always fun to read, they're really only fun if they have a good storyline or plot. Or else it becomes a little repetitive and boring. I think that's what drew me to the Fifty Shades series. Romance is NOT my normal genre, yet in that story it had romance, mystery, suspense, some danger, and the characters seemed grand yet had a believable quality. I was hoping for the same here, and the characters started off with a lot of promise. Unfortunately though, a lot of the character development was short and they ended up falling flat. Second, I didn't like the ending. It left a lot up in the air, and there hasn't been a mention as to whether or not this was going to be a series. As average as I found the book, I still want to know how it all ends!
Overall, it was an okay book. If you're looking for something exciting and somewhat short (it's only 290 pages), it would be a good read.
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