I just Finished my Book secret in the shadows about a sophmore in high school named Roylin Bailey. Throughout the book it just seemed like nothing he did ended up well in his social life, and no matter how hard he tried things did not go his way. He had a really good friend in the building who was an elderly man and who kept him company throughout his whole childhood. One day while the man was asleep Roylin decided to take his money to borrow for a birthday gift for this girl he met. The main was sent to a nursing home but the super in the building said that the man had a heart attack from the lost money so he could get Roylin to do whatever he wanted to keep his mouth shut. It was pretty ridiculous.

     One thing in the book that happened to show nothing went Roylins way was that after he went through all the trouble to borrow the money from the man to get this new girl an expensive necklace, she ended up just using him for the gift and dropped him completly. So then he had to do all that work and go through all that stress for no reason.

     There was also kind of an ethical dilemma in this story. Roylin thought he basically caused the death of a man in his building yet he decided to try and work so the super would keep it a secret and not tell anyone about it himself. The author did an amazing job of having a lot of intense moments at the end of the book. For example when Roylin finally tells his new friend about how he cause the death the friend comes up with all these ideas to see if its actually true. And the last scene of the book was when the super comes to the house to realize that they know he was lying the whole time. The author made the whole ending insane and intense.

     Overall i think the book was a really good book and the author did an amazing job of making key parts more important then others also a good job of showing how Roylin was having a tough time and in the end a new friend ended up helping him out big.