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The Lying Game
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Publisher's Summary
From the New York Times best-selling author of the "pulse-quickening" (Good Housekeeping UK) In a Dark, Dark Wood and The Woman in Cabin 10 comes Ruth Ware's highly anticipated third novel, featuring her signature "verve and energy" (Library Journal).
On a cool June morning, Isa Wilde, a resident of the seemingly idyllic coastal village of Salten, is walking her dog along a tidal estuary. Before she can stop him, Isa's dog charges into the water to retrieve what first appears to be a wayward stick - and to her horror, Isa discovers it's not a stick at all...but a human bone. As her three best friends from childhood converge in Salten to comfort a seriously shaken-up Isa, terrifying discoveries are made, and their collective history slowly unravels.
Tackling the slipperiness of memories, the relativity of truth, and the danger of obsessive friendships, The Lying Game is a gripping mystery with compelling characters and electric prose, resulting in a can't-stop-listening thriller.
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- Very disappointed
- 07-27-17
REALLY LET DOWN, I'm not gonna lie! (No spoilers)
First, Imogen Church ALWAYS gives an outstanding performance, so it is no surprise that she gives one to this book.
I LOVE Ruth Ware's writing and character building and humor but somehow things didn't come together on this one. It should be called "The "I'm Going To Make It Up As I Go" Game".
Just the summary of the book is misleading, you'll figure that out in the first couple chapters and then somehow low and behold it wasn't? Huh? Exactly!
There is a good (not great) story in here somewhere but the marketing of the book ruined it. So you think your entering into one thing only to find your entering into an entirely different story.
Plus there are chapters of flashbacks which are okay but are not really necessary since the author re tells them in present time...again why?
So if you really really enjoy Imogen Church and Ruth Ware and don't mind being a little bit more than disappointed that this is what came after a two year wait then buy it.
Or am I lying? J/K I honestly wish I was, so disappointed. :(
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- SLW
- 08-10-17
I really wanted to like this book but...
Any additional comments?
I love Ruth Ware but I am so disappointed!I had a hard time understanding the choices made by the characters in this book and it drove me crazy. I like when individuals are put in impossible situations, forcing them to make decisions that (as a reader) you may not agree with but you understand. I found myself continually rolling my eyes and wondering WHO DOES THAT?! It made the book seem ridiculous. Very frustrating!
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- J.Durant
- 07-30-17
No spoilers - Long winded and repetitive
I love Ruth Ware's stories. She has great character development that allow you to "get to know" each character. Imogen Church is amazing, as always, and gives each character a clear and recognizable voice.
However. This story was very long-winded and there were a couple of times there were phrases/ideas repeated. There is a lot of focus on unsubstantial points (the baby's crying) - and you are brought over and over again to these topics.
The lead in the story also does some pretty impossible things with her baby (in my opinion) - especially as Ruth has made it very clear that the baby gets upset easily and often.
Just didn't work for me like her other stories have.
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- Beth Stegall
- 08-07-17
Publisher' Summary needs to be corrected...
The character's name mentioned in the summary is wrong. The person described is really named Kate. Isa is the storyteller. Maybe not a big deal but it bothered me.
The story just seemed to drag on and on...
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- Christalpistol
- 07-28-17
Disappointing
I was excited about this book, but very early on I realized it wasn't what I was expecting. I had previously read The Woman in Cabin 10 and enjoyed it pretty well, my reasoning for buying this one.
The thing that bugs me the most is that the protagonist is so idiotic (but supposedly a lawyer) and puts herself and infant child in peril so much that you don't root for her at all and to me that is an important aspect. The author did the same thing in Cabin 10 book but that story was much more suspenseful so it was forgivable. Why can't the main character be realistically intelligent?!
I don't think this is worth a credit, if anything get a copy from the library if you must. I feel like most readers will be disappointed.
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- Wendi
- 08-11-17
Another Disappointment from Ruth Ware
First off- I loved Ruth Ware's debut novel, 'In a Dark, Dark Wood.' I found myself voraciously listening and even going for long walks to give me an excuse to listen to it. I loved the characters and the humour she inserted in some of the tense situations. I laughed til I cried at one point in the story...
Then came the story of the woman in the cabin. Urgh. Hated it.
I decided that since I enjoyed her first book so much, I would go ahead and try my luck with 'The Lying Game.' I didn't read a thing about the book- I just bought it and listened.
First off.. this isn't a good book. Make no mistake, I wanted to chuck my phone through my window on my hour plus drive home during the first 4 hours of listening. Imogen Church does a fantastic job of narrating the book- so props for that. Good job, Ms. Church.
The Lying Game is about a group of four friends who went to a private school together and gather years after they've done something terribly wrong (it's a big secret- and it's a let down). They are worried and tortured because of the one mistake they made while in private school. So- there might actually be a story here-- but the problem is in the telling.
Ware actually repeats the story twice. Once in present time and once in 'flashback time.' Also, the story is so disassociated- it doesn't match. It's like Ms. Ware had no outline and sort of made it up as she went.
I will say that although the first 4-5 hours of this book are fairly tedious, it does pick up with about 4 hours left to go and I did want to listen to the rest of it to see what would happen next. I think Ms. Ware should cut about 7 hours out of this novel.. or maybe not have written it at all. She's got one more chance with me though... because I loved 'In a Dark, Dark Wood' so very much.
-Wendi
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- Nadeau Fam
- 08-09-17
Enjoy this like watching grass grow.
The narrator does a halfway decent job at trying to breathe life into an inanimate object, though her interpretation of males voices sounds satire at best.
The story it's self is wrote as if someone juvenile is trying to sound more refined than her age permits. The very thin and weak plot is much like a small splat of red paint on a canvass. You expect as a listener for it to be spread out and turned into a thing of art at any moment. Only to see the red mark dry, harden and then covered up by multiple layers of grey boring and repetitive layers that does nothing for the story other than make it wordy and long. I personally dislike stopping a book midway. So it is only after getting through the painfully slow and mind numbing book that is the "lying game " I find myself contemptuously writing this review. If you don't mind wasting 14 hrs of your life then this book may be for you , otherwise don't make the same mistake that I did. On a side note the book is very effective at being a drug free sleeping agent.
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- Caren Sachs
- 08-15-17
Too much baby!
I turned this off several times because I got so sick of hearing about the baby. Not sure why the baby had such a huge role in the story considering she had nothing to do with the main story. Enough with the breast-feeding! We get it. It was predictable and long and boring. The big secret isn't even that big of a deal. It should have been more dramatic. This is the first book I have "read "from this author. Guess I'll have to try the others because this was a waste of my time.
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- 6catz
- 07-27-17
Imperfect, but still a good read
Four schoolgirls engage in a snarky game of pranking everyone outside of their safe circle of four. Seventeen years on, when a human bone is discovered, they find themselves trapped by the lies they were so expert at telling, and only have one another to rely on. Ware takes her time weaving this history of loyalty, deep friendship and foolish teenage mistakes into the fabric of the present.
The Good: Excellent reading by Imogene Church, who maintains a consistent tone and subtle accent notes for each character throughout. The personalities are well-drawn and kept me engaged for the length of the book.
The Flawed: Ware takes a little TOO much time with the above, and the reiteration of the central character's thoughts and feeling is, at times, repetitious. A bit of careful editing would have helped.
Overall: Still a good read, a tale of deceit, murder, doomed love and lost innocence that got hold of my imagination. Worth a credit.
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- margaret
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I still have 5 hours to go, and I like the mystery part. But it seems like 50% of the book revolves around the baby: what she is doing, when she is breastfeeding, etc. Babies are great and all, but I thought I was purchasing a thriller/suspense??
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Getting snowed in at a luxurious, rustic ski chalet high in the French Alps doesn’t sound like the worst problem in the world. Especially when there’s a breathtaking vista, a full-service chef and housekeeper, a cozy fire to keep you warm, and others to keep you company. Unless that company happens to be eight coworkers…each with something to gain, something to lose, and something to hide.
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Decide for yourself
- By Breezybealle on 09-10-20
By: Ruth Ware
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The Turn of the Key
- By: Ruth Ware
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
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When she stumbles across the ad, she’s looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss - a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten - by the luxurious “smart” home fitted out with all modern conveniences, by the beautiful Scottish Highlands, and by this picture-perfect family. What she doesn’t know is that she’s stepping into a nightmare - one that will end with a child dead and herself in prison awaiting trial for murder.
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Wow. So awful I can't even describe how awful.
- By Hannah K. on 08-12-19
By: Ruth Ware
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The Woman in Cabin 10
- By: Ruth Ware
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the veneered, select guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship, the Aurora, begins her voyage in the picturesque North Sea. At first Lo's stay is nothing but pleasant: The cabins are plush, the dinner parties are sparkling, and the guests are elegant. But as the week wears on, frigid winds whip the deck, and gray skies fall.
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Hours and hours of tired...
- By ROBIN on 07-28-16
By: Ruth Ware
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The It Girl
- By: Ruth Ware
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
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April Clarke-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford. Vivacious, bright, occasionally vicious, and the ultimate It girl, she quickly pulled Hannah into her dazzling orbit. Together, they developed a group of devoted and inseparable friends—Will, Hugh, Ryan, and Emily—during their first term. By the end of the year, April was dead. Now, a decade later, Hannah and Will are expecting their first child, and the man convicted of killing April, former Oxford porter John Neville, has died in prison.
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Way too long and way too whiney - needed editing
- By Lynn on 07-14-22
By: Ruth Ware
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Death of Mrs. Westaway
- By: Ruth Ware
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. She realizes very quickly that the letter was sent to the wrong person - but also that the cold-reading skills she's honed as a tarot card reader might help her claim the money. Soon, Hal finds herself at the funeral of the deceased...where it dawns on her that there is something very, very wrong about this strange situation and the inheritance at the center of it. Full of spellbinding menace and told in Ruth Ware's signature suspenseful style, an addictive thriller.
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The Death of Mrs. Westaway
- By Debbie De on 06-03-18
By: Ruth Ware
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In a Dark, Dark Wood
- By: Ruth Ware
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
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Leonora, known to some as Lee and others as Nora, is a reclusive crime writer, unwilling to leave her nest of an apartment unless it is absolutely necessary. When a friend she hasn't seen or spoken to in years unexpectedly invites Nora ( Lee) to a weekend away in an eerie glass house deep in the English countryside, she reluctantly agrees to make the trip. Forty-eight hours later, she wakes up in a hospital bed injured but alive, with the knowledge that someone is dead.
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Save your credit
- By Kaitlin Welty on 11-09-16
By: Ruth Ware
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One by One
- By: Ruth Ware
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Getting snowed in at a luxurious, rustic ski chalet high in the French Alps doesn’t sound like the worst problem in the world. Especially when there’s a breathtaking vista, a full-service chef and housekeeper, a cozy fire to keep you warm, and others to keep you company. Unless that company happens to be eight coworkers…each with something to gain, something to lose, and something to hide.
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Decide for yourself
- By Breezybealle on 09-10-20
By: Ruth Ware
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The Turn of the Key
- By: Ruth Ware
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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When she stumbles across the ad, she’s looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss - a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten - by the luxurious “smart” home fitted out with all modern conveniences, by the beautiful Scottish Highlands, and by this picture-perfect family. What she doesn’t know is that she’s stepping into a nightmare - one that will end with a child dead and herself in prison awaiting trial for murder.
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Wow. So awful I can't even describe how awful.
- By Hannah K. on 08-12-19
By: Ruth Ware
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The Woman in Cabin 10
- By: Ruth Ware
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the veneered, select guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship, the Aurora, begins her voyage in the picturesque North Sea. At first Lo's stay is nothing but pleasant: The cabins are plush, the dinner parties are sparkling, and the guests are elegant. But as the week wears on, frigid winds whip the deck, and gray skies fall.
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Hours and hours of tired...
- By ROBIN on 07-28-16
By: Ruth Ware
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The It Girl
- By: Ruth Ware
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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April Clarke-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford. Vivacious, bright, occasionally vicious, and the ultimate It girl, she quickly pulled Hannah into her dazzling orbit. Together, they developed a group of devoted and inseparable friends—Will, Hugh, Ryan, and Emily—during their first term. By the end of the year, April was dead. Now, a decade later, Hannah and Will are expecting their first child, and the man convicted of killing April, former Oxford porter John Neville, has died in prison.
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Way too long and way too whiney - needed editing
- By Lynn on 07-14-22
By: Ruth Ware
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Snowflakes
- Hush Collection
- By: Ruth Ware
- Narrated by: Jess Nahikian
- Length: 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Leah has spent her formative years isolated on a remote island with her family. But their quiet existence, far from the devastated mainland, is cracking. Father, sensing a coming threat, demands that a wall be built. As the stone blockade rises, Father’s paranoia escalates. So does Leah’s dread that the violence the family left behind has found its way to their sanctuary.
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Just as Great as her Books
- By Peigi on 09-14-20
By: Ruth Ware
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Zero Days
- By: Ruth Ware
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Hired by companies to break into buildings and hack security systems, Jack and her husband, Gabe, are the best penetration specialists in the business. But after a routine assignment goes horribly wrong, Jack arrives home to find her husband dead. To add to her horror, the police are closing in on their suspect—her.
By: Ruth Ware
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Still Lives
- A Novel
- By: Maria Hummel
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Kim Lord is an avant garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the LA art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition, Still Lives, is comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous murdered women - the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown Simpson, among many others - and the works are as compelling as they are disturbing, implicating a culture that is too accustomed to violence against women.
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Second fail from Reese
- By jestans on 08-12-18
By: Maria Hummel
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The Last House Guest
- By: Megan Miranda
- Narrated by: Rebekkah Ross
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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Littleport, Maine, has always felt like two separate towns: an ideal vacation enclave for the wealthy, whose summer homes line the coastline, and a simple harbor community for the year-round residents whose livelihoods rely on service to the visitors. Typically, fierce friendships never develop between a local and a summer girl - but that’s just what happens with visitor Avery Greer and Littleport resident Sadie Loman. Each summer for almost a decade, the girls are inseparable - until Sadie is found dead.
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Boring and confusing
- By L J on 06-22-19
By: Megan Miranda
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The First Shot
- A Prequel
- By: Liv Constantine
- Narrated by: Suzanne Elise Freeman
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
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In this gripping prequel to the blockbuster best seller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick The Last Mrs. Parrish, listeners will discover exactly how Amber Patterson transformed from small-town girl to master manipulator - after all, practice makes perfect.
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I was not disappointed!
- By KKEC Reads on 11-14-20
By: Liv Constantine
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You Think It, I'll Say It
- Stories
- By: Curtis Sittenfeld
- Narrated by: Emily Rankin, Mark Deakins
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Throughout the 10 stories in You Think It, I'll Say It, Sittenfeld upends assumptions about class, relationships, and gender roles in a nation that feels both adrift and viscerally divided. With moving insight and uncanny precision, Curtis Sittenfeld pinpoints the questionable decisions, missed connections, and sometimes extraordinary coincidences that make up a life. Indeed, she writes what we're all thinking - if only we could express it with the wit of a master satirist, the storytelling gifts of an old-fashioned raconteur, and the vision of an American original.
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Stories of people thinking and acting horribly towards each other
- By Ali K on 06-02-18
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Into the Water
- A Novel
- By: Paula Hawkins
- Narrated by: Laura Aikman, Daniel Weyman, Imogen Church, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
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A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged. Left behind is a lonely 15-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the care of her mother's sister, a fearful stranger who has been dragged back to the place she deliberately ran from - a place to which she vowed she'd never return.
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Don't Hold Your Breath
- By Mel on 05-07-17
By: Paula Hawkins
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This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
- By: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Ann Patchett
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Blending literature and memoir, Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder and Bel Canto examines her deepest commitments: to writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husband in This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage. Together, these essays, previously published in The Atlantic, Harper, Vogue, and The Washington Post, form a resonant portrait of a life lived with loyalty and with love.
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Entertaining, engrossing, and elucidative essays
- By Bonny on 01-07-14
By: Ann Patchett