I believe the author successfully carries the voice of the unreliable narrator throughout the book. I was captivated by the descriptions, such as when Amber Reynolds is trying to separate her dreams from her alleged reality, "I can smell my lost time." How great is that sentence?! Another example where I know the feeling too well is when she describes an uncomfortable atmosphere, ".the air in the room is thick with silence and remorse." This sentence transported me inside that room! I simply love the feeling when a book has utterly kidnapped my attention! This was one of those that you think about when you were at work, when commuting or doing anything other than reading. Like a kid in a candy shop - I wanted this book to last forever. Sometimes I Lie grabbed me and never let go. There were none listed, but I will keep Alice Feeney's name in mind as I wait for her future books. I was hooked by page 3, and I had already flipped to the front of the book to see what else the author had written.
When, exactly, do we know when she is "lying" apart from the time when she is literally lying in the hospital bed? This very subtle psychological tale keeps harking back to the "Sometimes I Lie" of the title.
The risk of losing critical pieces of the puzzle would be great. Any attempt to reduce this book to a plot synopsis would be a mistake. This time sequence keeps repeating as the author subtly builds her characters. The story flashes back and forth from the present (Boxing Day) with Amber at age 35, to the weeks just before the accident, and then reflects back to when she was ten years old. I was directly transported to her world as she is able to understand it given only what she is able to sense from her physical space in a hospital bed. She does remember three things about herself.
As the story begins we experience the world as felt by a woman, currently comatose after an accident which she cannot remember.
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