Sometimes I Lie - Alice Feeney

Description

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.

Review

This is a debut novel for Alice Feeney - I have to say that I want to be on the waiting list for her next book right now!

The terror of this novel had me from page one, as the thought of being in a coma where you can hear everyone speak, but no one know you are sentient is to me a living nightmare. That is exactly what is happening to Amber as we meet her in the hospital and the opening lines of

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.

I really should have paid more attention to number 3. The book is told from the perspective of Amber in the coma, flashbacks to just before she was in the coma and flashbacks to when she was a child.

I found the whole book so enticing. Sometimes when a book jumps around like this you long to be back to the present, but the writer managed to make you want to be at all three places at once! So many threads being woven. The writing is also so beautiful with lines like "you steal stolen seconds and gobble up misused minutes, sticking them all together to make a delicate chain of borrowed time, hoping it will stretch”.

I read it in one sitting as I just had to know what was happening. The author put one huge twist in which left me free falling - I had to put the book down for a minute and regroup my thoughts.

Just when i thought I had it all straight in my head there is a huge final twist which I still don't know what to make of. I finished the book and I am still not sure what just happened. I think this book needs an online support group - I just need to talk with others about what I just experienced. Still I am thinking I should have paid more attention to point 3...........

You need to read this book - it's like nothing you've read before.

I'm giving this book 5 out of 5 stars - I wish I could give it more. My thanks to Netgalley for an advance copy of the book for review.

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