Sometimes I Lie
ALICE FEENEY'S NEW YORK TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
"Boldly plotted, tightly knotted--a provocative true-or-false thriller that deepens and darkens to its ink-black finale. Marvelous." --AJ Finn, author of The Woman in the Window My name is Amber Reynolds. There are three things you should know about me:1. I'm in a coma.
2. My husband doesn't love me anymore.
3. Sometimes I lie. Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can't move. She can't speak. She can't open her eyes. She can hear everyone around her, but they have no idea. Amber doesn't remember what happened, but she has a suspicion her husband had something to do with it. Alternating between her paralyzed present, the week before her accident, and a series of childhood diaries from twenty years ago, this brilliant psychological thriller asks: Is something really a lie if you believe it's the truth?
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A story about two girls turned women who are impossibly intertwined, in more ways than one. I loved Rock, Paper, Scissors by this author. I came in expecting a suspenseful mindf***, and that is exactly what this book delivered. Without giving too much away, this is the kind of book that will immediately make you either want to re-read to find clues, find others that have read this and discuss your theories.
Many have said that the last few sentences ruins it, and at first I agreed. But I later realized that this wasn't the clean black and white dichotomy that I had understood it to be. Once I saw both sides of the scale as balanced, I could appreciate how deservingly leveling that final twist was.
Many have said that the last few sentences ruins it, and at first I agreed. But I later realized that this wasn't the clean black and white dichotomy that I had understood it to be. Once I saw both sides of the scale as balanced, I could appreciate how deservingly leveling that final twist was.
Recommended by my daughter, a total page turner psychological thriller. Two friends grow up together, end up being sisters. There’s psychological dramas and traumas..:One of the girls is in a coma, as an adult, and she is cognizant but cannot move, so she starts to work on figuring things out herself. The last third has a lot of twist interns in the book. Definitely recommend if you want a book you don’t want to put down. Just the beginning was a little slow, or else I was just too busy with work that I didn’t get into it, it took me several days to get into the book. But once I got into it, I did not stop reading.
This was decent. I thought the ending was going to be way more than it was, I was also confused with the diary, Claire, Jo, and Madeline alignment. Felt like I didn't get the answers or conclusions I was looking for.
Started off very slow. But towards the middle things become very interesting! So many OMG moments! Wanted more for the ending though.
I had high hopes for this book, but man, oh man, it was so slow. Things didn’t start to get good until 2/3rds of the way in. The narrator did a great job bringing the character to life, but it felt like a lot of repetition in the book's first part. I also anticipated some twists at the end, but it felt slightly far-fetched and disjointed. If the beginning hadn’t taken so long, I would have liked this story much better.
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