I picked up the debut Novel by Alice Feeney as I had heard really good things about this one in social media. Some describe it as her best work yet where as some call it as an 'utterly twisty thriller with a jaw dro
pping climax'! (WT?!)
Sometimes I lie, came out much before she became a global sensation with her break out Novel, Rock Paper Scissors.
Amber Reynolds is in a coma after a tragic car accident. Incapaciated in her hospital bed, she can listen to everything happening around her but have no memory of what happened to her and the tragic accident which preluded her coma.
Alternating in three parallel narratives, Then (Past), Now (Present) and Before (Diary Entries), Sometimes I Lie depends on the unreliable narrator trope to elicit the shocks/twists. But that also becomes it's undoing, as pages and pages of boring prose fills a large chunk of the initial portions of the book. With too many focal points in these parallel tracks, it gets annoying after a while.
This is the most confusing thriller, I have read in recent times. The latter half of the book (especially the diary entries start getting confusing by this point) is replete with silly and illogical sequences and I still have no clue about that tail-end revelation involving the bracelet.
On the whole, I am utterly disappointed with this one. This Novel is not only confusing, but is also silly and illogical, Imho!
-nikhimenon
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