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Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney

5 reviews

17kmcollins's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Medical content, Miscarriage, Rape, Fire/Fire injury, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Death of parent, Drug use, and Alcoholism

vibingandy's review against another edition

mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

surprised at how intense some scenes were, definitely look at the content warnings! otherwise was a bit predictable in parts, and the big twist made the plot more confusing (though it was interesting for sure)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Murder, and Rape

Moderate: Abandonment, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Pedophilia, Miscarriage, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Death of parent, and Car accident

amplawrence's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Rape, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Gaslighting, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Medical trauma, Stalking, Medical content, and Drug use

Moderate: Ableism

Minor: Cancer and Self harm

librariangeorgia's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

This was an absolute mind-twist of a novel - and being a debut novel as well, it's rather impressive.

There's 3 perspectives that we follow: Amber in present day post-accident, the run up to said accident and diary entries from 25 years earlier. There's just so much that happens across those 3 perspectives that it doesn't seem like they link up to the accident. However, it's around 3/4 of the way through that it starts to unravel and become clearer just what has happened. And nothing is what it seems...

I quite enjoyed this book, just like Feeney's other novels. However, I feel like I was left with more questions than answers by the end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Death of parent, Drug use, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Miscarriage, Stalking, and Toxic relationship

ellejaereads's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

4.0

Three things to know:

1. My name is Amber Reynolds
2. I am in a coma
3. Sometimes I lie

The twists and turns in this book were insane. Part mystery, part psychological thriller. Unreliable narrator. Wow. It was a ride. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual assault, Drug use, Alcohol, Sexual violence, and Alcoholism