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The Lie

Written by: C. L. Taylor
Narrated by: Penny Rawlins
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Jane Hughes has the perfect life. There's just one problem: She doesn't exist.

Jane Hughes has a loving partner, a job in an animal sanctuary, and a tiny cottage in rural Wales. She's happier than she's ever been, but her life is a lie.

Jane Hughes does not really exist.

Five years earlier Jane and her then best friends went on holiday, but what should have been the trip of a lifetime rapidly descended into a nightmare that claimed the lives of two of the women. Jane has tried to put the past behind her, but someone knows the truth about what happened. Someone who won't stop until they've destroyed Jane and everything she loves.

©2015 C. L. Taylor (P)2015 HarperCollins Publishers Limited Genre Fiction Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Women's Fiction Fiction
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I enjoyed this book very much. It was a great listen and very very good story. The narration was very good as well.
Had me glued to listening. However, one small thing is that I think this book could have been about 2 hours shorter because there was a lot of backtracking and a lot of too much mundane stuff and mundane characters.
I liked the Now and Then parts of the chapters. It kept you up with the overall story.Great job.
Could have benefited from cutting off a few characters that went nowhere.
Overall a good book and I loved the Author and narrator.
Worth a Credit and I thank Audibles plus for including it in my library.

Great book!

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At 25% shorter, this book would have remained a ludicrous story but at least a page-turner. That's not to say that the plotting and pacing are deficient as is - in fact C.L. Taylor structures the story admirably (the alternating "Present Day"/"5 Years Ago" storytelling technique works brilliantly) - but there is quite a lot of extraneous/unnecessary information. There's an episode with an old lady and a dead dog for some reason, for example. It's a headscratcher that it's even there. Taylor is a capable writer but doesn't have much discipline.

The audiobook is also plagued with a professional, admirably interested narrator.. who underperforms. Reader Penny Rawlins displays great diction, timbre, cadence, and tone but subpar voice-acting: often cartoonishly husky and occasionally shrill.. plus perhaps the worst Swedish accent that I have ever heard.

In toto, I rate 'The Lie' 4.5 stars out of 10. If you can set aside logic, it's not terrible. When it leaves the 'Plus' menu, however, save your Credit.

[Note: By about halfway through the book, the way that Taylor writes the protagonist makes her no longer supportable. I didn't care what happened to her - spoiling the climax somewhat]

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