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Book Review: Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney
My blog now has a fair share of psycho-thrillers this past year: Gone Girl, The Woman in the Window and The Girl on the Train (click on the hyperlinks to check my review of these books).
Written in similar style as Gone Girl (diary entries of past) and The Girl on the Train (back and forth of timeline), Sometimes I Lie will interest those who love psycho-thrillers with back-to-back twists. At time when you will think ab bas ho gaya (now the story ahead should be plain vanilla), a new twist will occur. No no, do not worry, I am not giving any spoilers away, just telling you to expect the unexpected like the famous Gone Girl. But somehow you know what happened while I was reading the book and drawing so many parallels between this and its predecessors (and that too not consciously every single time), I felt it as a drag. Perhaps, I was reading too much in-between lines to guess which was truth and which was a lie and again perhaps, if I would have taken a break of 6 months between two psycho-thrillers, I would have better appreciated the same.
However, this being a debut book, the book is written in the way thrillers are supposed to be written. I am sure you would not have guessed the end since most murder mysteries make the husband the culprit. Well, he may or may not be in this book 😉 So, check the book blurb below and if you find it interesting (I did find it good enough), do go ahead and start reading it. Next on my radar is yet another psycho-thriller The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks, but I will take at least a month long break now 🙂
Few of my favorite lines from the book (and these were just at the start of the book, later I got so engrossed and at others so bored that I forgot highlighting them in kindle so that it is available for ready reference in my goodreads profile):
A lot of people would think I have a dream job, but nightmares are dreams too.
I can play all the parts life has cast me in, I know all my lines; I’ve been rehearsing for a very long time.
People are not mirrors—they don’t see you how you see yourself.
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Book blurb: 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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About the author: Website: alicefeeney.com |
| Rating: 7/10 |
| Genre: | Thriller |
| Book Name: | Sometimes I Lie |
| Author: | Alice Feeney |
| Pages: | 387 |
| Publication Year: | 2017 |
