It's sooo much like The Housemaid. The first half of the book was nice with short chapters told by Ellie. The second half switches between Megan and Jake's POV. Normally that would be ok, but it's basically written the same as the Ellie chapters with minor changes. It's incredibly repetitive which makes it difficult to hold my attention. I did not really care or connect with the characters.

Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for providing me with an ARC in exchange for my honest review.

⭐️ could have been a DNF 10/10 don't recommend
⭐️⭐️ It was meh
⭐️⭐️⭐️ it was good but...
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ really liked it. Doesn't live rent free but comes to visit every now and then.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Obsessed! It will live rent free in my head forever and always

Megan and Jake Harington are busy parents each running their own business. Jake hires Ellie to be babysitter, although he works for her in his daily business. Ellie is amazed at their glass home and feels like a fish out of water, but she needs the extra money.

This marriage is toxic and these poor children are caught in the middle and need love and attention. Ellie wants to help even when Megan accuses her of things she does not do.

Jake and Megan both have secrets as the title suggest. Told in multiple points of view and you can’t decipher who it the good and who is the bad guy. So many twists and unexpected accusations kept me glued to this novel. Ellie is also hiding secrets from her past. Is it possible they all know each other’s secrets?

Brown has become a go-to for me for psychological suspense. Thank you NetGalley, Bookouture and Browne for this advanced copy. This heart-pounding thriller is available November 6, 2023.
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'We All Keep Secrets' is a gripping whodunnit, complete with spooky atmosphere and turns that'll keep readers turning pages!

Premise - a wealthy couple hire a new nanny, Ellie, but when she learns that their au pair, Phoebe, suddenly disappeared, she quickly realizes everything is not as it seems. Is the beautiful wife, Megan, an adultering murderess or is the handsome husband, Jake, a manipulative serial killer?

The book includes:
* cheating
* sexual intrigue
* Insta-adultery
* lies, so many lies
* murder, plenty of it
* dysfunctional families
* cute kids (especially Ollie, the little boy)
* twisty turns

I wasn't sure who did it until the very end! I didn't trust Jake from the get-go, but Megan is mentally unstable and skilled at twisting the narrative to fit her ends... Ellie was no peach (<spoiler> she went from looking down on Jake for having an affair with Phoebe to having sex with him in *so* little time: insta-adultery) but I felt for her. I kept wanting to yell at her to quit the job!

Note: the beginning of the book doesn't match the blurb... that was odd? Maybe they'll still change the blurb (I hope so), because the blurb says she was at ease when she first began employment with them, whereas in the book Megan is horrible to her right off of the bat and she walks into the middle of a domestic dispute. The married couple were definitely not holding hands and speaking lovingly of their baby! Jake hired Ellie behind Megan's back.

Thanks, NetGalley and Bookouture, for the gifted ARC in exchange for an honest review.

In the beginning of this book I was like "ugh." It starts with child death and then our protagonist is a very silly and ridiculous young girl. She is a disaster. She makes all the worst choices, just as a young woman would.
But I also couldn't stop listening. Her heart is always splintering for Jake and he is always looking at her with despair in his eyes.
I actually loved that but I wouldn't want to have coffee with this nanny.
Anyway, they are all awful and you build a lot of compassion for her and Meg in the second half of the book. And I love hating the husband in books. I love it all so much!
This was amazing.
The narrator was perfect as she always is.

I received an ARC of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review.
*Minor spoilers*
First off, I need to have a serious talk with the person who wrote the blurb for this book because if they read the book, I don’t think it was the same book I read.
Secondly, if you have read The Housemaid by Freida McFadden, I would not recommend you read this book as it comes across a bit like “the ugly sister” in the way where it is very similar to The Housemaid but not done quite as well.
I found the characters to be extremely annoying, I could not connect to any of them, and I honestly did not care what happened to them. I found it extremely unrealistic that you would go into someone’s bathroom on your first time in their house and immediately try on their clothes and use their shampoo.
I kept finding myself having drifted off and having to try and find the last point in the book that I knew what was going on. The narrator has a really nice voice and she did not do a bad job of narrating the story I was just not interested in these characters and what happened to them.
The book has a lot of potential, but I would definitely recommend that you rethink the blurb as it is not at all what the book is about. Maybe if the blurb gave me a more accurate idea of the book I would have gone into it with different expectations and liked it more.

Thank you to NetGalley, The Author and Bookouture Audio for the ARC.