All the Lies We Tell

Quarry, Book 1

By: Megan Hart

Narrated by: Kate Rudd

Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins

Publisher's summary

Everyone knew Alicia Harrison's marriage to Ilya Stern wouldn't last. They'd grown up on a remote stretch of Quarry Street, where there were two houses, two sets of siblings, and eventually, a tangled mess of betrayal, longing, and loss. Tragedy catapulted Allie and Ilya together, but divorce - even as neighbors - has been relatively uncomplicated.

Then Ilya's brother, Nikolai, comes home for their grandmother's last days. He's the guy who teased and fought with Allie, infuriated her, then fled town without a good-bye. Now Niko makes her feel something else entirely - a rush of connection and pure desire that she's been trying to quench since one secret kiss years ago. Niko's not sticking around. She's not going to leave. And after all that's happened between their families, this can't be anything more than brief pleasure and a bad idea.

But the lies we tell ourselves can't compete with the truths our hearts refuse to let go...

©2017 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved; 2017 Megan Hart

Enjoyable

Just enough crazy in tangled drama with a little heat thrown in to be enjoyable and feel realistic. Kate Rudd narration lovely as always

Megan Hart can do better

This story felt a bit flat for me. The sex scenes where Hart usually excels In we’re basic and uneventful. But I’ll still be a fan forever. I know she’s a great writer

worth the listen

I have thoroughly enjoyed Megan Hart's story telling abilities. The narratir did a great job of portraying the personalities of all the main and supporting characters.

Automated narration?

The narrator sounded like an automated recording. It was difficult to remain engaged as a result.

A little slow moving

Slow moving story that was trying to be a romance, then it wrapped up quickly in the end.

I didn't hate it. It just wandered

This was slow in parts. I know every page can't be terrifying. I think it has 3.9 stars because good was really good and then there was wandering.

Good book!

Partly read this book on Kindle and listened to the rest. Reading it was better as the voice wasn’t the best. But still a decent read.

The end is the best part

This was not the most interesting story I've read recently, but it was captivating enough to hold the attention of the listener/reader. Several of the characters were incredibly frustrating with their over all lack of urgency for anything. However, the ending remains the best part of the story for me, and make the entire book worth reading because of it.

Good story

Good narration and good story line. Impressive voices for the characters. Loved it immensely. Good read too

Really good writing but not likeable characters

I have mixed feelings with this book. It never really felt like a romance novel, more just a family drama story. That's typically not my kind of read but it was very well written. I never once thought of stopping and I was never bored with it, but I didn't like the characters.

This book is Alicia and Nikolai's story but there are 5 other characters that were in it so much that they all felt like main characters. It's based around the two families who were neighbors and grew up together

Jennilynn - popular girl in school who partied too much and was in love with Ilya even though they were never really a couple. She drowns when she is 18 but plays a huge role throughout the book.

Alicia - the less noticeable sister who had a thing for Nikolai. Nikolai left right after graduation to get away from his family drama. Alicia then leans on Ilya after her sisters death and Nikolai's absence. They get married and built a business together. My biggest thoughts on her is she was pretty much treated like crap. Constantly being compared to her dead sister and left by the guy who was suppose to love her, only then to be pursued by the brother who couldn't let her sister go.

Babulya - Mother to Galena, Grandmother to Ilya and Nikolai. Was well loved and passes in the beginning of this story that brings everyone back together.

Galena - Mom to Ilya and Nikolai. Galena is the very definition of family drama. She is flaky and had major mood swings that made her sons tip toe around her. She was not a likable character. she seemed very selfish.

Ilya - In love with Jennilyn, but marries Alicia and starts a business with her not long after Jennilyn's death. I really didn't like his character. He seemed very selfish and needed to grow up. It seemed like he used Alicia to keep a tie to Jennilyn.

Nikolai - Leaves right after graduation. He loved Alicia but not enough to stay for her. I didn't dislike him but felt he needed to man up...even when he came back.