The Letter

The Secret Author Series, Book 3

By: M. J. Padgett

Narrated by: Missy Roberts

Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins

Publisher's summary

Penelope Scottsdale is faced with a dilemma when her spoiled sister refuses to respond to letters sent to her by a deployed soldier. Her sister wants nothing to do with the admirer, but Penelope doesn't have it in her heart to break his. Rather than tell him the truth, she decides to take her sister's place and respond to the letters. In time, Penelope discovers the truth behind her sister's foul behavior, and her life spirals out of control. With new and frightening truths around every corner, Penelope finds herself turning to the soldier for advice and comfort. When the soldier returns home a hero, forcing her to reveal the truth of her identity, she realizes she's in far over her head. She intended to tell him the truth long before his return, but the truth is so much more complicated than she ever imagined. After all, how do you tell someone you've never met that you've fallen in love with them under a false identity?

©2018 Melissa Padgett (P)2020 Melissa Padgett

Wonderful High School Read - *Trigger Warnings*

Parents- PG13- good for high school to adults - *trigger warning* that this book deals with trauma, PTSD from war and a very abusive alcoholic father and emotional abuse
Language- PG- minimal to nonexistent
Violence- PG13- nothing too graphic - *flashbacks to violent beatings of children and mother and *war PTSD
Sexual Content- PG13 Kissing, clean romance, living together, safe sex talk, and *semi-graphic flashbacks of molestation & rape

This book is probably better for older high school to adult readers. It's a very dramatic coming of age story about Pen and her sister and brother.... things that had been protected come out and there's so much dealing with different forms of flashbacks and PTSD that this could be a very hard read for someone who has been through their own trauma. I did love how this all unraveled, and though it was hard to get through in the different abuse scenes. I love how good family relationships were encouraged; and importance of the loads of patience that is needed to be the support for someone healing from trauma. It's a very emotional rollercoaster with a lot of heartache, healing, and some fun twists. The overall message of this series continues the theme of friendship, family, and forgiveness. I do recommend this one.

Narrator- did a great job with the differentiations between the characters and was simply fun to listen to.

—I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

A LETTER

AN INTERESTING STORY, NARRATION WAS VERY GOOD, I CANNOT WAIT FOR MORE OF THIS AUTHOR

Best one yet

As I've read/listened to more and more from this author I'm seeing the writing getting better and better, While I have enjoyed all of them and they are all well written I really loved this one. I'm not sure if it's because the group was older than the high school crowds from the previous or that this particular story was full of unexpected surprises and wasn't all life is wonderful and perfect yet still remained a light and lovely story. Narration was done well and really did a good job with this cast of characters.