The two girls share a birthday, love books, and have many of the same interests. After a play date arranged by Amber’s mother, they become friends and remain quite close.

She feels unloved by her parents and is friendless until she meets a girl named Taylor. Never wanted by her mother, Amber is often neglected and she comes to hate her Mum. “I think my parents used to love me, but I disappointed them so oftenīefore – We meet Amber through a series of diary entries when she is eleven years old. In fact, Amber doesn’t really like people at all… and she is overwhelmingly unhappy. “I always get the impression that she sees straight through me and doesn’t like the view.” “I’m not as ugly on the outside as I feel on the inside, but I still don’t like what I see.”Īmber doesn’t care for her mother-in-law and the feeling is mutual. “His success broke him and his failure broke us.”Īmber’s younger sister Claire is married and is the mother of two-year-old twins.Īmber really doesn’t like the person she has become. She begins a covert campaign to oust her from the show by creating negative social media buzz and sending her nasty anonymous notes in red envelopes.Īmber’s husband Paul is a writer who is struggling to write his second book. She plots to get her nemesis on the show off the payroll. Quite recently she was given a warning that she might be made redundant. Then – She works as a presenter for a radio talk show called “Coffee Morning”. He deletes the messages on her cell phone… He tells her that it is HER fault that she is in this condition. “He bought it with the advance for his first novel and he loves it almost as much as I hate it.”Ī man enters Amber’s hospital room. She remembers this… but there are huge gaps in her memories leading up to her accident.Īpparently Paul’s beloved car was the vehicle crashed in her accident. She is thirty-five years old and is married to a man named Paul. She is aware of the people around her and can hear what they say – she just cannot acknowledge them, make a sound, or move her body. It is Boxing Day and it would appear she has been in a horrible car accident.

Now – We first meet Amber Reynolds when she is in a coma. “Despite my internal cries, on the outside I am voiceless and perfectly still.”

Now (when Amber is in a coma) Then (the week before Christmas, leading up to her accident) and Before (when Amber was just eleven years old) “ Sometimes I lie” is told via three timelines. “People are not mirrors, they don’t see you how you see yourself.” A thriller riddled with twists and an unreliable narrator ensured that I wasn’t disappointed. I’ve been anxious to read “ Sometimes I lie” ever since I won a copy via a Twitter giveaway.

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