Betrayals

De: Kelley Armstrong

Narrado por: Carine Montbertrand, Julie McKay

The exciting fourth novel in best-selling author Kelley Armstrong's "impossible-to-put-down" Cainsville series.

When Olivia's life exploded - after she found out she was not the adopted child of a privileged Chicago family but of a notorious pair of convicted serial killers - she found a refuge in the secluded but oddly welcoming town of Cainsville, Illinois. Working with Gabriel Walsh, a fiendishly successful criminal lawyer with links to the town, she discovered the truth about her parents' crimes in an investigation that also revealed the darker forces at work in the place that had offered her a haven. As if that wasn't enough, she also found out that she, Gabriel, and her biker boyfriend Ricky were not caught in an ordinary sort of love triangle, but were hereditary actors in an ancient drama in which the elders of Cainsville and the mysterious Huntsmen who opposed them had a huge stake.

Now someone is killing street kids in the city, and the police have tied Ricky to the crimes. Setting out with Gabriel's help to clear Ricky's name, Olivia once again finds her own life at risk. Soon the three are tangled in a web of betrayals that threatens their uneasy equilibrium and is pushing them toward a hard choice: either they fulfill their destinies by trusting each other and staying true to their real bonds, or they succumb to the extraordinary forces trying to win an eternal war by tearing them apart.

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Great book, okay narration

I love the Cainsville series, but am disappointed in the audio. I was able to get the ebook from my library so have been doing a lot of simultaneous reading and listening, only to discover that the audio is slightly different than the original book! Mostly it seems to be just small liberties the narrator takes, minute changes that aren’t necessarily detrimental to the overall story. However, in the previous book (Deceptions), I discovered a whole page missing from the narration, and it was pretty important to the story!

hooked on the story, second narrator not working

I listened to the previous audiobooks in the series and I didn't really think they needed two narrators to mark the point of view shift, but both actors were good. In this audiobook, the second narrator is a different actor and they end every sentence with this neutral tone that sounds very robotic and false- I think it's meant to convey a colder personality or something but it doesn't work (and those sections aren't written in first person and aren't always about Gabriel, so it's kind of an overreach if the intention is to evoke the character of Gabriel). I think this actor does fine when reading dialogue, but the robotic sentence ending thing is really annoying me and distracting from the story.

new second narrator

I do not like the new secondary narrator at ALL. Otherwise I love the story!!!

Why the 2 different narrators?!

Both are good, don’t get me wrong but.... well the one playing our Heroine mostly is a touch grating. It takes a moment before the annoyance her voice elicits wears off and so each time they switch back and fourth it actually pulls me right out of the damn story!! So frustrating. So unnecessary. Would have been understandable if they’d went with a male voice actor but they didn’t. Which- ok- than why do we need two when the deeper voices woman does a fine job of all characters??? It’s a good story but the switching back and fourth is definitely not helping that story get told. Simple as that.

Loved the story line but ...

I didn’t really like the new narrator Julie McKay. Her voice lacked emotion and there was really no difference in tone with the different characters she read. Will finish the series because I love Kelley Armstrong books. Her story’s never disappoint.