Sometimes I Lie

De: Alice Feeney

Narrado por: Stephanie Racine

"Despite the challenges - an unreliable narrator, an intricate plot, a shifting timeline, and myriad characters - Stephanie Racine gives a flawless narration of this audiobook.... This intense thriller is made even better by her performance." (AudioFile Magazine)

From renowned journalist Alice Feeney comes a riveting new audiobook, Sometimes I Lie.

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 20 years ago, this brilliant psychological thriller asks: Is something really a lie if you believe it's the truth?

©2018 Alice Feeney (P)2018 Macmillan Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

"With tension comparable to Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train, plus the imaginative Now-Then-Before construction, Feeney unfolds just enough in each chapter to keep you page-turning for more, and her character development is excellent." (NJ.com)

"The creepy feeling at the back of your neck is 100 percent real." (People Magazine)

Can I give this book 10 STARS!!!

WOW WOW WOW!

Best psychological thriller I have listened to in a LONG time!

This book was twisted, raw and at some points scary, it went back and forth between present day, (Amber in a coma) to a week prior, the build up to Amber being in a coma, and 1992, a series of diaries. The twists and turns this book takes was so entertaining and spooky, i found myself speeding up the reading just to see what happened next! It kept me guessing, and thinking and guessing the entire time. I loved every second!

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Wow! Twists and turns until the very end!

For a while i was looking for a book that not only has the big plot twists at the end but throughout the entire book. Just when you think you had it figured out- boom- another one. The narration was really well done (which I think can either make or break the book) definitely one of my new favorites

Hmmm...

I am really on the fence about this book. While I marvel at Ms Feeney’s imagination, I found this book an extremely trying listen. The first three quarters of the book were so tedious, I was just about to walk away from it. I held on due to the other good reviews. Yes, there were finally some twists and turns at the three quarter mark, but they continue at a somewhat confusing pace. I did not find any of the characters likable in the least bit, which added to the overall tedium of the story. When you are hoping for the possible death or demise of everybody in a story, and you don’t, for various reasons, have any sympathy for even the person in a coma, that’s a bad sign.

one too many twists to follow

Introducing the friend, Taylor, then her becoming taylor was too much for me to follow. Then the writer focusing on growing up in different houses but then in the end it was the same house? It was more "twists" than I care for, but good.

So good! Kept me guessing!

Any additional comments?

I couldn't stop listening to this book. It was SO good!! It kept me guessing throughout the whole book. There were 3 storylines going throughout the book: Now, Then, and Before. I found myself fascinated by all 3 storylines, and trying to figure out how it all fit together like a puzzle. There was a twist that I really did not see coming! I also loved the narrator! I really liked how she sang where there were song lyrics. A lot of audio books will just say the lyrics in a book, but I loved how she sang them. It really added to the mysteriousness and eeriness of the story - if that makes sense. Loved it!

I really am not sure what happened

I would love to say that I enjoyed this book and completely understood it, but I don’t. the book is all over the place. I think the story would have been good if it were told in a different way. It was just way too confusing. I would not buy this book.

Awesome Audio book!

I loved this book! It was not what i expected at all. It was way better! I found myself gasping on several occasions. It was complex with a great plot. Loved every minute of it. Cleaned my entire vanity listening to the last 2 hours of this book. Bravo!

Suspenseful

This book offers the one thing I love...chapters set in different timeframes--Before, Then, Now, and After. I love a good challenge when it comes to piecing together information to solve the mystery. Alice Feeney has given us exactly this. A story that starts at the end and takes us to the beginning. Genius.

Amber is in a coma, yet she can't remember how she got there. We learn what is happening in the present day, by what she overhears when her sister, Claire, husband Paul, and Edward, a man from her past talk in her room. Then we go back in time to the BEFORE chapters, which are read from a childhood diary. It's in these chapters a twist to the story changes everything you thought up until now. Who Clarie and Amber really are and the mystery behind the tragic death of their parents. The THEN chapters, we learn the real relationship between Amber and her husband Paul, the struggle with his career as a writer and how the marriage appeared to be falling apart before Amber was found unconscious on the road. She overhears Clair ask Paul how he hurt his hand and fears he had something to do with her accident, but still can't remember what happened. We also learn of Amber's boss, Madilynn and the lengths Amber went to destroy her.

A tailspin of events build and twist into an ending you will not see coming.

Great job, Alice Feeney

predictable

Went all over the place hard to follow...was not that
impressed with the ending Predictable

Not for me

The book just ended and I don't know what happened. I don't think I'm a fan of the before then now type of books because either I'm not following them or they aren't complete stories! Really did like the performance; at least it was easy to listen to.