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Thank you NetGalley for this ARC!
This is my first by this author and boy have I been missing out! This book was great! The plot twist was crazy!!! I highly recommend!!
3 ⭐️
Thanks Netgalley and Bookouture Studios for this Advanced Reader Copy.
We All Keep Secrets is great for fans of The Housemaid by Freida Mcfadden, filled with fun twists and complex characters.
The first half of this book was great, I really enjoyed reading from Ellie’s perspective and the mystery of the house and the people in it really kept me engaged. However, it did kind of lose me at the second half when events were being told again through a new perspective - it got repetitive and a little boring.
Furthermore, I honestly felt that it lacked originality because of its similarities to The Housemaid. I guessed lots of the ‘twists’ because of this which meant it wasn’t a very satisfying read once I put it down.
That being said, the writing was great and the characters all had distinct voices that made them very interesting to read about. I did also like the court stuff at the end, although I wish we got a little more of it.
Another great psychological thriller by Sheryl. Enthralling plot with unexpected twists, very well described characters & great narration.
Thank you to the publishers and NetGalley for the ARC.
I enjoyed the story, especially hearing from the three unreliable narrators. I wish there had been someone to pull for to come out unscathed in the end. But instead the three main characters were all terrible people that I disliked the entire time.
Wow. This was so much better than I expected. I could not put this down.
The beginning felt a little cliche; I thought it was going to be like every other domestic thriller but no! This has so many good twists. My mind went in so many directions.
I liked the multiple pov’s and the way it was laid out. It doesn’t jump around per chapter, instead you get one persons entire pov of events and then the other persons and then the other persons.
Very good writing. Lots of clues that seem innocent but end up meaning more to the story.
I didn't love this book. The idea is great! I loved the first half but it became a bit boring and monotonous when the author changed the point of view.
Well done.
A "happily married" couple. A nanny. A beautiful home. Wealth. Flirtations. Deception. Multiple POVs.
We All Keep Secrets had everything which makes a domestic thriller thrilling.
On audio, Tamsin Kennard once again proves her ability to move a story along and allow the listener to enter the story, as opposed to just listening. She is good.
Highly recommend.
Whoa! These people are awful and cunning and manipulative and I am here for it! This was a fun suspenseful and twisty ride where lies and secrets run rampant. I thoroughly enjoyed it being told from three different points of view. The narration was very well done. A huge thank you to NetGalley, Bookouture Audio and the author for an ALC in exchange for my honest opinion.
Ellie has taken a job as nanny for a wealthy couple, and while she enjoys her young charge, the parents are another story. The husband is a shameless flirt even as his wife takes great joy in telling Ellie to keep her hands off her husband. It’s not long before Ellie realizes she’s made a big mistake taking the job. It’s clear that she’s in danger. This is a thoroughly enjoyable mystery with a relatable heroine
There re some stories your immediately have characters you love and believe and others you hate deeply and on't trust them one little bit. And then there are those stories where you don't know who to trust or believe because they make your head spin. One moment you are convinced they are the despicable ones and a few pages later you are convinced they are in fact the victims of some scheming others.
I can assure you that i tottally had ont one clue who to believe and who to dislike. The thoughts in my mind were moving around like clothes in a washing machine on the spin cycle. I honestly did not know who manipulated who and this is so great. It makes you have to wait until the last pages to uncover the truth.
And then that truth shocks you, because there is still a surprise that has been left until the end to unbox. I love it. :)
So yes, once again miss Browne has had met glued to my chair, enchanted by her story.
Great author, wonderful narrator, very enjoyable book. 5 stars
Thank you
I really enjoyed the narrator for this! There was the right amount of tension mixed with suspense and twists and turns.
I loved this psychological thriller, which is full of secrets, lies and mysterious, hidden things. I really liked the audiobook narrator, as she had the perfect voice for the story, and she portrayed the story very well. The story itself is about a rich couple called Megan and Jake, who hire a babysitter called Ellie to help them look after their two children. One of the children, a baby girl called Fern, unfortunately dies, and everyone is devastated. Who could have done such a thing to this beautiful baby? Who can we really trust in this book? I found it hard to tell, as so many new things were being uncovered, layer after layer. The ending of the book had a huge twist, which was shocking and I was very surprised by it. This is a wonderful book, which is very entertaining and suspenseful. I recommend it highly!
Many thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for a copy of this book.
The audiobook narrator is top notch. I loved her voice and her inflections as the different characters. I enjoy books like this that offer different perspectives on the same thing. I think that having the whole story out and then switching characters left me confused. It would have been smoother to do a few chapters of one character and then hear the version of those few chapters by the other characters. I had to struggle to remember what happened in the first perspective because it was so far back in the book.
I still don't know how the baby died. Maybe it was the fact that it was the audiobook, but I think the babysitter did it? I don't know.
I liked this book. Good narrator. I knocked off a star because I feel like this is similar storyline to other things I've read.
Utterly gripping, lots of secrets and twisty thriller.
Ellie was hired as the nanny in the Haringtons family to look after Fern (the baby girl) and Ollie. Jake Harington was overly friendly to Ellie while his wife Megan Harington kept blaming her while she did nothing wrong.
But things went wrong. Ellie stared at the crib and she was failed to keep Fern safe. Ellie’s past was going to be revealed too.
The secrets that everyone was keeping were the core of the story. The twists were wonderfully placed and the plots got thickened! I was hooked from the beginning. The narrator made all the characters alive and it’s easy to follow!
Rounding up to 3 ✨️
The actions of Ellie seemed completely unbelievable, right from the first hair wash.
Added to that, the other characters weren't making sane choices
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The second half filled in a few blanks, but mostly it felt a repeat of the first half.
Whilst all of that sounds negative, it had its entertaining moments, and I kept listening to the end.
Alright, I was really excited about “We All Keep Secrets”. The opening chapters and the first half of the book, told from Ellie’s POV, the story was ramping up, although it did begin to drag on. The second half of the book, told from both Jack’s and Megan’s POV, I found myself tuning out, thinking, “I’ve already heard this”.
I typically enjoy a little different perspective, but only if it actually adds MORE to the story, not just repeating it and filling in the cracks.
I did not care for any of the characters. Ellie was 100% not relatable. Like, it’s the first time babysitting for someone and you go through their things and wash your hair?? Who does that?? And just willingly moves in basically without knowing hardly anything about these people?! And projects herself into their relationship?
Megan was a complete b*#+h - she really began to grate on my nerves, the way that she acted towards Ellie. And Jack? He’s just a narcissistic a**.
I have to say that the narration on this audiobook was good and that was probably the only reason I finished it.
Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture Audio for the audio ARC in return for my honest review.
Many thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture Audio for the free audiobook in exchange for my honest review. This is narrated by Tamsin Kennard who does a great job.
Ellie has been out of work and gains employment at a store through a friend. The boss finds out that she has childcare experience and immediately asks her to come take care of his kids that night. As explained, he and his wife both work and have double booked work events with the au pair having recently left suddenly without notice. Through a series of events, the reader learns that Ellie is not the greatest at child care, the boss and his wife have a troubled marriage, and that something unfortunate happens to the young daughter while in Ellie's care.
This is sold as a psychological, suspenseful mystery. The story is retold in multiple POVs and the reader learns in the prologue that Ellie is on trial for the murder of the little girl. Also, there are obvious hints that something bad happened while Ellie was working at her prior childcare job and to her younger brother.
I did not find this to be a suspenseful, psychological mystery. The characters were underdeveloped, the plot was contrived and hard to believe in parts. The emotions and decisions of the characters seemed to be set on high all the time and just not believable.
I was disappointed in this one.
We All Keep Secrets has you sucked in from the beginning. All of my questions HAD to be answered! Sheryl Browne nearly killed me with the suspense of when the shoe would finally drop and the need to know who was telling the truth! Is Megan your typical jealous wife? Is Jake the real problem? Browne kept me guessing until the very end.
Thank you, NetGalley and Bookouture Audio for this advance copy in exchange for my review.
I could not have been happier when this one was approved for early reading!
I absolutely love Sheryl and think her books sadly do not get the attention they deserve.
This book follows the POVs of Ellie (the babysitter) and married couple and parents Jake & Megan. Each POV will have you convinced that they are the reliable narrator up until the POV switches to the next person and then your opinion changes. It's literary gaslighting and it's FANTASTIC.
About half way through once we leave only Ellie's POV and switch to Megan's, it was nice to have some of the holes filled in (example how Ellie got the new car.)
I both loved and hated every character, I still don't know who was telling the truth, and my brain is broken in the best possible way.