Sometimes I Lie - Alice Feeney

Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney

First Paragraph(s):

My name is Amber Reynolds.
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.

I've always delighted in the free fall between sleep and wakefulness.  Those precious few semiconscious seconds before you open your eyes, when you catch yourself believing that your dreams might just be your reality.  A moment of intense pleasure or pain, before your senses reboot and inform you who and where and what you are.  For now, for just a second longer, I'm enjoying the self-medicated delusion that permits me to imagine that I could be anyone, I could be anywhere, I could be loved.

My Thoughts:

Sometimes I Lie is a book that I think I'll have a hard time talking about without giving spoilers, so...I'm not going to share too much.  First of all, I'll say that I did a read/listen of it.  Narration was by Stephanie Racine.  She did a really good job.  This is Alice Feeney's debut and I'll definitely be watching for what she writes next.  Oh my goodness!  This book is all kinds of crazy.  Told in several different ways - by Amber in a coma in the present, in the recent past just before the accident that placed her in the coma, and also through diaries written over 20 years ago - the reader thinks certain things, but no...thinks other things, no again...and then comes the 'all kinds of crazy'.  Who would have ever thought that a certain phrase would scare the living daylights out of you?  Can't/won't tell you the phrase.  And, yes, that's all I'll say.  If you try this one, be prepared.  All...kinds...of...crazy...

Blurb:

Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can’t move. She can’t speak. She can’t open her eyes. She can hear everyone around her, but they have no idea. Amber doesn’t remember what happened, but she has a suspicion her husband had something to do with it. Alternating between her paralyzed present, the week before her accident, and a series of childhood diaries from twenty years ago, this brilliant psychological thriller asks: Is something really a lie if you believe it's the truth?