🎧ARC Review: Secrets of Our House by Rea Frey

My review: 3.5⭐

There was quite the family drama going on in this one.
And it wasn’t told in your typical dual perspective when it’s usually between the husband and wife. It was told by the mother, Desi, and her daughter, Jules. Although the narration was good, I do wish there was some distinction in the voices since they do vary in age.

Desi brings the family to spend the summer in North Carolina to try to save her marriage to Peter and to spend time with Jules before she is off to college in New York. But Jules has other plans when she meets Will and ultimately they fall in love.
As a mother you always want what’s best for your child and you try to steer them in the direction you think is best, but who’s to say what the right direction is?
So many secrets happening, which I guess you could have figured out by the title. I didn’t agree with most of them, but who am i? 🤷
It was slow going for me for quite a while, but it certainly picked up in the last third or so. It was action packed there for a few chapters. I would be interested in reading more from this author in the future.

*Thanks for Netgalley, Macmillan Audio and Rea Frey for the advance audiobook. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*

Book blurb: Release date ~ February 8, 2022

A thrilling domestic drama set against the power of the wilderness, Secrets of Our House is a deeply-felt novel of long-held secrets and the strength of family.

Desi is the mastermind behind her dream getaway house. Nestled high into the mountains of North Carolina, it is a sleek place, a luxurious place, a dark place.

A place full of secrets.

Secrets about the man she longs for, a man who is not her husband. Secrets about the roots of her family that must never, ever, see the light of day. When Desi and her family arrive from Chicago to spend the summer in the mountains, the seeds for the tumultuous months to follow are planted—her marriage on the rocks, not knowing which way they’ll go. Her seventeen year-old daughter Jules, falling in love for the first time with a local boy—and forging a new path that will take her to uncharted places. And Carter—a man Desi knew long ago, before she expunged him from her life for good.

All hurtling toward events none of them can undo.

Engaging, propulsive, and with a dramatic, heart-pounding final act, Secrets of Our House is a dazzling novel, richly-drawn, that shows no matter how hard outside forces may shake you, the bonds of family are stronger than the harshest winds.