House of Secrets: Book 1

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As humans, we’re drawn to conspiracies because many times, well, they’re more exciting than the truth. We like to be entertained, it’s just a fact. Meltzer understands this better than most and knows just how to hold a reader’s attention as he lays the story’s foundation. He also knows how to keep readers off-balance and guessing, incorporating twists and turns as the story unfolds. Trying to put together the puzzle pieces of her past and present, Hazel Nash needs to figure out who killed this man - and how the book wound up in his chest. The answer will tell her the truth about her father, what he was really doing for the government - and who Hazel really is. If you’re a fan of Meltzer’s television show Brad Meltzer’s Decoded which in many ways is the real-life version of the fictitious “The House of Secrets” that Hazel’s father hosted, then you have to read this book.

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The House of Secrets is no Da Vinci Code. No Lost Symbol, even. I would compare Mr. Meltzer's work to the books of James Patterson, perhaps, what with the brief chapters and the constant attempts at suspense - except the writing is worse... While some of the plot did come across a bit unrealistic, I have to credit the author with his creativeness as it's nothing that I've ever read before. I enjoyed being surprised. The blurb explains the basic plot, so I won’t rehash that. What I will say is I stayed up way too late reading this book because I really wanted to know the answers to the mysteries. It kept me engrossed and interested. It’s a twisty story with some surprises, and people aren’t always what they appear at first.Denver Kristoff:Used to own the Kristoff House, the Storm King, and writer of The Heart And The Helm, Savage Warriors, and The Fighting Ace An FBI shows up, asking questions about her dad and the corpse of a man found with the object in his chest. Did her father kill this man named Nixon? Hazel remembers The Bible. She recalls hearing the story. Mysteries need to be solved. A dead body and something hidden. Some details were clear and others lost. She thinks her dad told her. The last mystery. People weren’t happy unless they believed at least part of the world was some grand hoax. It’s what made Watergate so compelling. Everything everyone suspected was true. Government was corrupt, the world was being manipulated, nothing was on the level. Hazel talks to her physician, Dr. Morrison, about her case, but his reluctance to provide answers to Hazel’s inquiries confirms Hazel’s suspicions that he too is keeping secrets from her about her father.

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I have read all of Brad Meltzer's books. This book is a little different from the others. It is more of a psychological thriller with a woman, Hazel Nash, as the main character. She is no Beecher White, one of my favorite characters, but she has her own unique personality. A personality she has to dig out from within herself ever since the accident when her brain was injured. Is it true that the size of our amygdala can determine our personalities or predict certain behaviors? Do creased ear lobes lead to over-sized hearts that could explode in our bodies? Scientific anomalies such as these are included in the story. They make me wonder and think. And that's what a book is supposed to do.The House of Secrets," the story of a fictional TV host secretly working for the U.S. government, and a daughter's search to find the truth. Brad has played himself as an extra in Woody Allen’s Celebrity, co-wrote the swearing in oath for AmeriCorps, the national service program, and earned credit from Columbia Law School for writing his first book, which became The Tenth Justice. Before all of that, he got 24 rejection letters for his true first novel, which still sits on his shelf, published by Kinko’s. Hazel goes looking for answers but the more she learns about herself, the less she likes who she used to be. Plus, there’s another blistering conspiracy lurking behind the scenes, and it’s up to Hazel Nash to expose the truth. To do that she has to find out who she is, and who her father really was. I'm not going to lie. This kinda reads like a Dan Brown adventure, but with a female main character. There is even the creepy guy lurking around the world.