The Secrets We Keep

The Secrets We Keep, Book 1

De: Lily Wildhart

Narrado por: Maude Julien, Ryan Haugen, JD Tomlinson, Bradley Ford

I've spent the last two years playing the deadliest game of hide and seek.

My tormentor knows no bounds, and I'm done being his prey. In another new city, I'm hoping this is the place where I finally find peace and those parts of myself I've lost along the way. New name, new hair, new clothes…new me. I'm determined for it to stick this time, desperate for a quiet existence to escape the horrors chasing me. The last thing I expect to find is more of what I'm running from.

Violence. Murder. Manipulation.

Except here, three dangerous men have me in their sights. Instead of wanting to clip my wings and keep me in a gilded cage, they're offering me something I have long forgotten—Freedom.

When trouble comes calling, and nightmares crawl out of shadows... Don't you want the biggest monsters on your side?

The Secrets We Keep is a dark reverse harem romance duet intended for mature listeners.

©2023 Lily Wildhart (P)2023 Podium Audio

YES! YES! YES!

If You’re a fan of dark, spicy, RH - you have found your new book friend! FYI if domestic violence is a trigger for you, SKIP this one. If you decide to jump in, fair warning you will not be able to put it down till the end. It’s that level good. Voice acting is AMAZING! Plot is off the charts. Standing ovation for this book.

Female voice is seriously lacking

I really enjoyed the story, enough that I’m planning to get the next book. However, I’ll be downloading it on my kindle instead. The female reader lacks any & ALL emotion. Everything is read in the same monotone voice, regardless of the gender of whichever character she’s reading for. Excitement, fear, anger & even the spicy scenes.. Everything sounded like the characters are bored out of their minds. During a spicy elevator scene, she reads “yes, that!” in a straight up deadpan tone. It totally caught me off guard & I had to rewind it, thinking maybe there was an issue with the recording & maybe it skipped a section & we were in a totally different scene. Nope.
One of the male characters was angry & shouting something & it sounded like he was rolling his eyes at the conversation instead of being really upset.
When she’s voicing the any of the male characters as they try to comfort the MFC, they all sound as if they’re a frustrated parent trying to lecture a small child. I was so irritated throughout the whole book.

Great story, meh narration

It isn’t often that I listen to an audiobook and feel like the story is what shone the most. Narration usually takes books to the next level and I just didn’t feel it with this one. They all have good voices, just not the voices I felt were right for the characters in this book.

Overall Loved IT!

ladies voices were giid but some of the guys voices made it a little hard to imagine the muscular men that should have been portrayed. Cliff hanger ending has me jumping to start the next book.

I loved the story

the story was great. I enjoyed it all. I do think that it would have been much better if it was a duet. If you are triggered by dv, trafficking then skip this one. But I enjoyed it thoroughly

This had the makings of such a great story

Unfortunately it fell flat! There was something about this book that I didn’t care for. Maybe it’s because there was a lot of time jumps…. There wasn’t a lot of details in the story. I think they all could have had their individual moments where each of the guys fell in love with her. But the author didn’t. It was like Tommy asked for their help then after reading her paperwork… they just fell in love.
I wanted to like this story!!!

so boring

literally, absolutely nothing happens until the literal last few pages. the rest of the book has basically no plot, no character growth, nothing. just retelling the same 'past trauma' over and over on a loop for the whole book. with characters introduced only to set up the next spicy scene.

I liked the beginning of the story- where Quinn runs away from her abusive ex

I didn’t like that the story kept jumping around. Went from 2 days, wks or even Mths. With no change to the actual story! Very repetitive

Weak

This book had no flow no explanation. It was rushed and awkward. The characters had no flow and the development was relationships was disjointed suddenly and with no real connection.

BORING the first 7hours are of absolutely nothing

This book had so much potential. The first 7 hours were of absolutely nothing. Honestly, I put it on X2 trying to get to the meat of the story. The steamy parts seem as if they were written by an inexperienced college student. The typical "she's mine" "selfish and possessiveness" nonsense. Defiantly don't spend money on it and don't waste the credit.