The Bitter Truth

De: Shanora Williams

Narrado por: Sable Lyn, Roderick Ross

An upstanding political candidate. A determined stalker. A shattering lost weekend. Now, when his worst secret comes calling, how far will one man’s elegant, all-too-devoted wife go to uncover the truth … or bury it?

For Jolene “Jo” Baker, the least she can do for her adoring husband, Dominic, is give unwavering support for his North Carolina gubernatorial run. He is not only the love of her life, he’s also helping her prove that she’s far more than just a pampered trophy wife. With huge crowds showing up at Dominic’s speeches and the polls consistently in his favor, she’s never been happier to stand proudly by his side …

Until she and Dominic start seeing the same, strangely ominous woman turning up all along the campaign trail. Until their tour starts becoming a nightmare of botched events, crucial missed information, and increasingly dangerous “accidents.” Suddenly Jo can’t get any answers from Dominic—or understand why he is acting so paranoid and terrified …

What Jo can do is start digging into his past—one she’s never really questioned beyond his perfect image and dazzling accomplishments. What results is an alarming series of events that leaves her baffled: Good friends turn into enemies, truths are revealed to be lies, and all clues lead back to one secret, shattering weekend that changes Jo’s entire life. With her world splintering into pieces, can Jo risk trying to set things right? Or will hiding the bitter truth by any means necessary destroy her as well?

©2024 Shanora Williams (P)2024 Recorded Books

Great Story

The story was captivating and suspenful. The reader paused more often than I thought she should.

kept my interest

This was my 4th book by this author. overall, I think she does good with suspense. I like how she gets straight to the point. She don't waste your time with fluff.
Now the bad; narrator. specifically, the female. She paused in weird places and didn't annunciate to capture the emotions of the women characters.

Full of twists & turns

I read my first Shanora Williams book last year and I was hooked. She has a great (although twisted :) at times) mind. This political thriller was filled with twists and turns. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time and just when I thought I knew what was going on…bam another twist. Definitely can’t wait for her upcoming releases.

Love her thrillers!

Love the thrillers by Shenora. The 3 in the plus catalog have made me purchase the other. The female narrator has a very weird cadence to her reading. often distracting. But the story is worth tolerating it. I hope the thrillers keep coming!!

Page turner... Or... Endless listening...

The Perfect Revenge!
Dark and twisty.
Political scandal.

I was so invested. Wanting more after each chapter. I was trying to keep the pace with my book club, but ended up finishing WAY early! Couldn’t put it down.

I love women

It’s a good book, but…

I am worried that my review will be deleted, but I really hope that it won’t because I feel like I can do give my honest feelings and opinions about this book in a respectable way.

Number one, there are so many things about this book that I love. I really relate to a lot of what Jolene thinks and says… marriage is hard, especially with the food, and then the politics and her husband being absolutely horrendous. She did not agree with everything he was doing, but had also gotten somewhat shady herself over time.

I guess I relate to the aspect that life turns you into something or someone that you never thought you would become. The writing is creative and keeps you guessing; I just think the writing is very clever.

However, I have to somewhat defend my own culture and race, and say that I feel that the author not only loves tea, but really doesn’t love white people. And that’s fine, they don’t have to. But if I wrote a book and negatively pointed out another race repeatedly, I would be dragged through hot tar. The only white person in this book was a disgusting racism… numerous other comments were made against the “white man”,, and yet I’m a white woman funding this author. While some of these comments and complaints regarding white people may be completely warranted, I just don’t know where it’s getting us. Are we trying to get more cohesive or are we trying to just turn one race against another? I could have listened to this book and never have thought about the race aspect until I heard the negative comments, regardless of what another race is known for or has been associated with, I can’t say a word, but another race can say anything and write anything to paint a certain demographic, but this is acceptable. To generalize an entire race based on a few experiences.. I just don’t understand how this is productive to forming and more cohesive society. if all were after is revenge and segregation, this book definitely accomplishes that.

And I do have to say the film female narration is absolutely horrible. Weird pauses; it sounds like she is reading… just not my favorite.

Odd, disjointed narration

The overall story was entertaining but the female narrator was awful. The cadence did not make sense and was honestly hard to get thru.

Great Story!

The story was great, Very heartwarming portraying the love of friends during such a traumatic time in their lives. The male narrator was great, the female narrator had a great voice but pauses between words in the middle of the sentence and that got annoying. I had to increase the speed a little when she was talking to keep it from being so annoying.

Good story...bad narrator

I struggled to get through the book, not because of the storyline. The story itself was quite satisfying however, the narration was so distracting because her cadence was delayed. Anyway, read the book yourself...you'll be much more satisfied.

Gripping

Let me first start by saying that I really enjoy Shanora's thriller/ mystery books. The story was gripping and held my attention. Secondly, as a 95% audie this is the second book that I've listened to and been 100% disappointed in the narration. The characters in the story were read with such lack of emotion, artificial and enunciated in weird ways that it seemed like it was AI. The only reason why I continued to listen is because I used an audible credit to get the book. I will continue to read and support SW and her books but likely will no longer listen to them.