Extreme animal cruelty

Plot holes, weak main character, unbelievable events (6 year old shooting people) main character is so weak so inconsistent, refuses to tell the truth that will save her, has the most frustrating inner monologue I've ever heard. Over and over she talks about " we are who we are believe we are" cliches abound but no character with any common sense.
I'm so frustrated I have a knot in my stomach because I so want something to be said that makes her sound strong. This book is exhausting, disturbing because of extreme child abuse and animal cruelty. That's not entertaining to me I absolutely despise every character in this book too.. good luck if you spend a credit on it. Sigh

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I wish I didn’t know

No spoilers here! I loved Sometimes I lie. This book, not so much! Very weak whiny insecure female lead surrounded by the obligatory mean girl carry overs from high school to adult life , English writers feature in all their books. The main character becomes frustratingly immobilized over and over again by catty remarks distracting from the story making me say; I will NEVER read her again !!! There is a mystery going on and a BIG Twist at end but everyone will have to judge how they feel about it making or breaking the book. For me it broke it. Editor needed to do some work. Narrator good but could draaggg sooommme words out you could nap and wake up and she would still be on one word!!

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Not for me

I just could not get into this book. I LOVED Sometimes I Lie, but this book just drags and is one dimensional compared to her previous book. I couldn't finish it, and I tried several times.

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Not a fan

I loved the author’s previous books, but this one was a let down. Poor character development, a ridiculous plot in many ways and cliché in others!

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Twisted and unrealistic plot

This book is a bell curve - slow start, quick build in suspense, and then a plummet into a completely unrealistic ending. There are just too many books with an overload of plot twists, at the expense of character and believability. The narrator was excellent, and the book did keep me interested....until the plot twists went into overload.

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Doesn’t stand up

Alice Feeney’s pervious novel Sometimes I Lie was full of twists and turns and characters that kept you entertained. Everything that made that novel great we’re lacking in this one. The main character was too frustrating to be believable and did so many things to lead her to the end that just didn’t make sense. I at no point empathized or rooted for her and that altogether kept me from really enjoying this story.

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Another Amazing Alice Feeney!

Alice Feeney delivers another wonderful mystery with rich character development and interesting plot twists. She is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors.

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Love Alice Feeney…did not care for this one

Alice Feeney is a great author and storyteller. I’ve read all her other books. The stories are interesting and make you want to keep listening. But, the ending of this book was stupid. It ruined the whole story for me. I’m not going to ruin anything, but just saying I was disappointed by this book. Stephanie Racine gave another great performance. Overall though, this one is skippable.

I love Alice Feeney books

Every one of Alice Feeney’s books have been so twisty and engaging! Thus one is no different! Well done - yet again!!!

An Incredible Novel

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𝑰 𝑲𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝑾𝒉𝒐 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝑨𝒓𝒆
𝙱𝚢: @alicefeeney
𝙽𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚘𝚛: Stephanie Racine
𝙶𝚎𝚗𝚛𝚎: Thriller, Mystery, Suspense
𝙿𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚛: @macmillanaudio
𝙿𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝙾𝚗: April 23rd 2019
@𝚐𝚘𝚘𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚜 𝚂𝚌𝚘𝚛𝚎: 3.43
𝙼𝚢 𝚂𝚌𝚘𝚛𝚎: 🎬🎬🎬🎬 / 5 Film Clappers

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Aimee Sinclair—well-known actress on the verge of being full-on famous, comes home from filming to find her husband’s cell phone and wallet on the dining room table. He never goes anywhere without them. But he’s nowhere to be found. She’s not too concerned—they had a huge fight the night before. He might have done things he didn’t mean, things she can’t forget. Even though she has a history of supposedly forgetting. After all, she’s a very good actress.
The next morning, she goes for her morning run and then goes to her favorite coffee shop. But her card is denied. When she calls the bank, they say her account has been emptied of $10,000. She immediately suspects her husband. But they say no, it was Aimee herself who closed out the account. And thus begins a bizarre rabbit hole into which Aimee finds herself falling where nothing is at it seems.

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Whatever you think this is, I can assure you, you’re wrong. Back and forth I went attempting to guess which way was up, and I just didn't get there. Another brilliant novel by the lovely Alice Feeney.

𝙏𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙬𝙤 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭: Aimee trying to hold her life together, desperate to figure out what happened to her husband. Why she is the prime suspect in his murder and who is stalking her.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐭: An innocent six years old girl trusting the wrong person - when the unimaginable happens. Changing her name, having new parents and forgetting her old life behind.

Getting to the end of this was a wonderful roller coaster ride of plot twists and turns as Feeney brilliantly uses the unreliable narrator as well as very well-developed suspects to keep the reader wrongly guessing up until the big reveal.

“Ever since I was a child, I have preferred to inhabit the fictional lives of others, hiding in stories that have happier endings than my own; we are what we read.” ― Alice Feeney, 𝑰 𝑲𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝑾𝒉𝒐 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝑨𝒓𝒆