There are three things you should know about me: I wasn’t sure Amber Reynolds was the Amy Dunne character I was hoping for, but I am so glad I took a chance on it. I’d seen it around during release time, but didn’t know much about it. I stumbled across Sometimes I Lie at the B&N book sale. To me, that’s the hallmark of a great character. Maybe you read the book and found her intolerable, but there’s no doubt that anyone who did read it was left feeling some type of way about Amy. I think Amy Dunne’s character, despicable as she is, is absolutely brilliant. Sometimes I Lie is published today and can be bought here.So the past few weeks I’ve had a craving to read something similar to Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. Thanks to the publishers Harlequin (UK) and NetGalley for an advanced copy of this book in return for an honest review. I’ve given Sometimes I Lie 3 Stars as my issues have little to do with the book itself, as I say it was well written and has enough mystery to keep a reader’s interest but, I have read better in this genre. I have no doubt that this book will be a roaring success, it has all the components well written, well plotted, well-developed characters but for me, it fell flat. I think the market is so saturated that whilst I was reading this I guessed a number of the twists as it was so ‘thriller by numbers’.

There is a real glut at the moment of books which are billed as ‘The psychological thriller with a twist you will never see coming” or “For fans of Gone Girl/The Girl on the Train/ ad infinitum” and I’m bored of them. Unfortunately this book didn’t really do it for me, it isn’t badly written, or poorly plotted, in fact it moves along at a brisk pace and there are a few twists and turns, it’s just, I’ve read this sort of book before. The book is full of deception and misdirection with thoroughly unlikable characters which disorientates the reader. The information is drip fed to us and as we only really see events from Amber’s point of view we don’t ever really know whether what she is telling us is true, after all, she does tell us within the first paragraph that she lies. Through a series of flashbacks and diary entries we discover Amber’s history and the events that led up to her ending up in a coma. I wanted to know about this woman and her back story and thought at the time that a book set around this concept would make a good thriller so when Sometimes I Lie came along I snapped it up immediately.Īmber Reynolds is in a coma unable to remember what put her there, she can hear what is being said around her but can’t communicate at all. There are three things you should know about me:Ī few months ago I read Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer where one of the supporting characters was in coma and the implication was that she had been put there by her husband.

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