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Betrayals: The Cainsville Series Kindle Edition

by Kelley Armstrong (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.5 2,409 ratings

Book 4 of 5: Cainsville

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The exciting fourth novel in bestselling 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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“Kelley Armstrong sure knows how to spin a yarn. . . . Betrayals, Armstrong’s best book yet, is the fourth novel set in the otherworldly town of Cainsville. . . . Along with the supernatural, Armstrong knows her ratiocination.” —The Globe and Mail

Praise for Kelley Armstrong's Cainsville series:

"Impossible-to-put-down. . . . Bring on the next Cainsville volume, please." —Sarah Weinman

"[Kelley Armstrong's] dispatches from this village filled with sinister secrets are going to be keeping her readers up well into the night." —Linwood Barclay

“Kelley Armstrong has paranormal elements in her classic mysteries but there are no ghouls, ghosts, werewolves or fairies and that’s why readers who loathe crossovers will love this series. [Deceptions is] smart, cleverly plotted and really well written and you don’t have to ignore the vampires to get to the good stuff.” —Margaret Cannon, The Globe and Mail

“Sometimes big, bad things really do come in small packages and no one is more adept at unwrapping them than she, making Deceptions a paranormal tale beautifully written and told.” —Providence Journal

“I am not a fan of mysteries that cross over into other genres, and I don’t like books that begin with infant narrators. So when I tell you that, despite that, Omens kept me reading on, you can bet it’s a good book. . . . A clever whodunit with some very nice twists and the fantasy actually works.” —Margaret Cannon, The Globe and Mail

“Armstrong creates heroines who are smart and strong, but with real weaknesses and vulnerabilities. They may be wrapped up in the supernatural, but they are realistic and relatable.” —Joanne Kelly, Winnipeg Free Press

“One of the best new series debuts this year! With its compelling characters and completely original set-up, Omens delivers a powerful combination of suspenseful thrills and supernatural chills. I can’t wait to read more!” —Lisa Gardner, New York Times bestselling author of Touch & Go

“Like the creepy, spooky town of Cainsville, Kelley Armstrong’s Omens lured me in. I was busy, way too busy for this book, which, through a series of surprises and sleights of hand, had me conspiring for ways to get back to the gripping story, the colorfully bizarre cast of characters, and the clever, strong, smart heroine at its center. Don’t pick this book up if you have anything else to do. It will grab you by the collar and won’t let you up for air until it’s good and ready. And once you’re done, you won’t soon forget it.” —Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author of In the Blood

About the Author

Kelley Armstrong is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Women of the Otherworld paranormal suspense series, Darkest Powers YA urban fantasy trilogy, and the Nadia Stafford crime series.

Julie McKay is a Los Angeles-based narrator with New York roots, a degree in music, and a background in classical theater. As an actor, she has worked at Shakespeare festivals and regional theaters across the country as well as Off-Broadway in New York.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01BRFLL9U
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Random House Canada (August 9, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 9, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2413 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 421 pages

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- #3,115 in Paranormal Suspense
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Kelley Armstrong believes experience is the best teacher, though she’s been told this shouldn’t apply to writing her murder scenes. To craft her books, she has studied aikido, archery and fencing. She sucks at all of them. She has also crawled through very shallow cave systems and climbed half a mountain before chickening out. She is however an expert coffee drinker and a true connoisseur of chocolate-chip cookies.

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and simultaneously terrified that I would hate it. I mean

Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2016

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I was both really excited to finally read this next installment of the Cainsville series, and simultaneously terrified that I would hate it. I mean, Armstrong's writing is always stellar, but this book had the clear potential to be infuriating. Love triangle! Fate! Reincarnation! All the stuff I hate.

In a froth of trepidation, I stayed up till 2 pm on release date to finish, and--and--it was so worth it. It could have gone so wrong, but it didn't. It was amazing. I thought after #3 that this book would be bogged down in more love triangle nonsense: Ricky is awesome and Gabriel does everything wrong even though he means well and Olivia misunderstands everything. And of course, with a title like this one, who wouldn't think of Gabriel and his unfortunate track record? Clearly he's going to prove that he's willing to risk his life for Olivia, and I was afraid it would be belabored and maudlin and awful. Nope. It flashes by almost unnoticed as he deals with one risk after another in a nightmare sequence, with classic Gabriel competence and endearing refusal to give in to emotion.

Similarly, I've never been fond of Ricky. He's too charming. It's unnatural, even without the added dislike that comes from watching Gabriel get misunderstood fifty thousand times. But this book redeems him. This book made me feel that, while nothing is going to stop me for rooting for the other team, I could at least understand what Olivia sees in him.

In general I felt that this book was great for character development. They all grew so much between the first book and this one. And there were some really lovely moments (and a couple of really painful ones). The plot was kinda weak--though I have to admit, a lot of the Cainsville plots strike me as kinda silly. This was not really a thriller mystery. But the character development, and interactions between the three main characters, were so strong that I didn't even care.

It was wonderful, and I'll read it again many times I'm sure. Can't wait for the next one!

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Gabriel!!!

Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2016

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Kelley Armstrong's Betrayals is a stunningly multilayered story that left me breathless and my blood humming for more Gainesville novels. This book has everything from biting baby gargoyles to wounded hell hounds. This book is a solid continuation of the overall series arc with solid character evolution. In this book Ricky Gallagher sexy biker and one of the main characters shines as he steps into his role as Arawn. Unlike his Fae counter part Gabriel, Ricky is ready to embrace his heritage and is well suited in the role. Gabriel is the wounded anti hero in the 'love' triangle that is Olivia, Gabriel and Ricky, where their historic counter parts have failed, I feel they need to say screw society and grasp love with both hands, making Olivia/Matilda choose is what destroyed her in the past. The three need to realize they all need to win. I normally hate love triangles, hate them with a passion, but these characters don't deserve to have their souls shredded because of moral proclivities. Maybe Olivia needs to more past what society thinks and grab both her loves and live a full rich full life. Olivia as a character is proving a character can love fully and completely more than on person. If the men are up to sharing I say Go For It Olivia!

I will admit that the mystery part of the book was a disappointment. I am still perplexed as to the hiring of mercenaries, that were used in the plot. The shadow bad guy didn't seem to have the resources for outside muscle. What started out as a good mystery fell flat on the reveal. I kept thinking I missed something in the text. I am honestly used to a more cloak and dagger ending from Ms. Armstrong; something that knocks me on my fanny.

Overall the book is hard to rate, but I settled on four stars because of the character evolution and the overall story arc, plus for a moment that was 'a blaze in an ice storm'. Despite all the problems with the mystery part of the book, it was such an overall good ride.

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Betrayals Keeps Every Promise

Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2016

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I very much enjoyed Kelly Armstrong's Otherworld series, and I REALLY liked her Nadia Stafford books, but Cainsville is absolutely her best work so far. It's dark and creepy, and our three main-est characters are smart and funny and so very REAL -- they have issues and they deal with them in better and worse ways, they are fallible without being stupid or clueless, they make mistakes and they try to fix them, and they learn and grow. Her characters are most definitely NOT angels, but neither are they anti-heroes. They are deeply flawed humans, just like everyone else (well, ok, maybe a bit smarter than most people).

The twists just keep coming, but all the clues are there -- and she makes it so engrossing that you really feel like you're there WITH Olivia, Gabriel and Ricky as they are struggling to put it all together. With Cainsville, so much more so than with most books, the reader can be an active participant. I read it on Kindle and have easily 60 notes, at least 75% of which are questions, oddities I picked out, and things I noticed which might be important later (and some of those notes are me congratulating myself if I managed to solve a piece of the puzzle correctly). Did I mention it also ranges from creepy to heart-wrenching to hilarious? Moreover, Betrayals has one of the most beautiful pieces of love writing I've ever read, and I'm fairly well read in the classics (Beowulf to early 20th century) and in modern SF&F.

I know this review sounds over the top, but the Cainsville series in general, and Betrayals in particular, really deserve it. So much so that I'm writing the first review I've ever written.

Honestly, I was prepared to be disappointed by Betrayals. The first three books were SO good, how was she going to pull that off AGAIN? I lowered my expectations a bit so when it inevitably did not live up to the first three, I wouldn't feel as bad. She knocked it out of the park, instead. Best of the series so far. I have learned that no matter how terrible the back of the book blurb sounds, Armstrong can ALWAYS be trusted to deliver.

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Debora Maillet

Beyond amazing

Reviewed in Canada on November 17, 2022

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This is the second time I have read this series. Love it as much as the first time yet better as I don't have to wait month for the next book.

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Jem

Excellent read

Reviewed in Australia on February 13, 2017

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I've really enjoyed this series, and I cannot wait for the final book coming out in August 2017. The love triangle is becoming more intense now that Ricky is stepping back from Liv, to see if Gabriel and Liv have something! I find it heart breaking, as I've fallen in love with both Gabriel and Rickys characters and I wish no one would get hurt. But there can only be one champion...I guess we will see...

Mary Heron

Spellbinding

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 25, 2016

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I fell in love with Gabriel immediately he appeared on the page, Olivia is a strong heroine as all Kelley's female characters are, Ricky is just gorgeous, if he has a fault it's that at times he's too good to be true. This is the love triangle at the centre of the Cainsville series. This is book four in the series and you can learn the plot from the book description, so I will just give my feelings on the series. Part of me is impatient for Olivia to stop fooling around with Ricky and settle down with Gabriel but another part thinks of Gabriel truly loved her, and she him, Ricky would be a non issue, with two such Alpha, Alpha males sharing Olivia would be out of the question, all though I think it would be the perfect solution. The one thing which looks certain is that someone's heart is going to be broken, how Kelley intends to resolve all the plot points still unresolved from the last four books I cannot imagine, usually you have some clues as to how the story is playing out, but not here. I am intrigued and excited and cannot wait to see where the next book goes.

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Mina

Perfect character-driven mystery. The series keeps its high quality up and adds another wonderful installment with “Betrayals”.

Reviewed in Germany on August 20, 2016

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Note: this is book 4 in the “Cainsville” series and not a good place to start reading. There is an overall story-arc and the books make a lot more sense when read in the intended order. Therefore I recommend to start with “Omens”.

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I remember when I tried to read “Bitten”, I was heartbroken about how I disliked it the whole thing up to the point where I couldn't finish it. I was heartbroken, because Kelley Armstrong is one hell of an awesome writer and the “Cainsville” series and its newest addition “Betrayals” are total proof of that.

As with the previous books, “Betrayals” starts right after the events in “Deception”: Olivia and Ricky are back from their bike-trip, Olivia is still working for Gabriel and tries to learn to trust him again, after he let her down so badly in the past. And it's hard, because Gabriel is such a broken and complicated character. But yet, in his way, he tries and hard. The struggle of Liv, Gabriel and Ricky to do the right thing, to not repeat Matilda, Gwynn and Arawn's mistakes is the main theme here. Sure, there is a mind-boggling, gripping case at hand, too: a serial killer seems to murder fae and someone seems to want to drag Ricky into it, framing him. But captivating as this is, the trio's character and relationship development is the real focal point here. And boy do the grow! And although Gabriel struggles the most, the true hero is Ricky [I don't want to spoil it, but you'll know exactly what I mean when you read it].

I'm awed at how K. Armstrong manages to no only invent such a great alternative world, but to also write one wonderful book after another in this series. If anything, they get even better. Therefore I'm happy that the series isn't finished yet, the last decision is still to be made and I can't wait to read on!

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