Sometimes I Lie – Alice Feeney

“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.”

That’s the opening line. Not a soft hello, not a “let’s ease into this,” but a straight-up psychological slap to the face. Alice Feeney doesn’t even let you get comfy before tossing you into Amber’s mind — or rather, her body — because she’s stuck in a coma and can hear everything.

The story flips between her hospital bed, her life before the accident, and her childhood diary entries, each layer revealing another little lie until your brain starts to melt in the best possible way. It’s part thriller, part fever dream, and part “wait, who even am I anymore?”

Amber’s voice is what keeps you hooked. She’s fragile yet sharp, haunted yet calculating, and her younger self is somehow even more heartbreaking. I don’t usually get protective over fictional characters (okay, yes I do), but something about this poor woman lying helpless in a hospital while her husband acts sketchy made me want to unplug him from the visitor’s list.

And like every seasoned thriller reader, I did what we all do — suspected the spouse. “It’s always the husband,” I muttered confidently. Feeney heard me, laughed, and then promptly shredded my theory into confetti. Every time I thought I had it figured out, she pulled another rug. I ran out of rugs.

Around the 60% mark, my fiancé and I actually broke out a whiteboard trying to map who was who, and I still barely kept up. Then the truth landed: Amber is Taylor. Claire is Amber. Paul… somehow still Paul. Identities collided, names flipped, and I swear I felt my frontal lobe detach for a second. But once the dust settled? It worked.

The ending is chaos and perfection all at once — revenge, deception, and a morality gray enough to make you question your own life choices. It’s twisted in all the right ways and left me both satisfied and deeply concerned for Alice Feeney’s psyche (in a complimentary way, of course).

My Rating: ⭐ 4.73/5

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