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Sliver of Truth (Ridley Jones #2)
by
Lisa Unger (Goodreads Author)
The highly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Beautiful Lies.
Charged with relentless intensity and kinetic action, and playing out with unnerving suspense on the streets of New York and London, Sliver of Truth delves deep into the shadowy world of Ridley Jones, a terrified but determined young woman at once hunting down a ghost from her past and running...more
Charged with relentless intensity and kinetic action, and playing out with unnerving suspense on the streets of New York and London, Sliver of Truth delves deep into the shadowy world of Ridley Jones, a terrified but determined young woman at once hunting down a ghost from her past and running...more
Paperback, 368 pages
Published
March 25th 2008
by Three Rivers Press
(first published January 1st 2007)
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I picked this up at the same time as Beautiful Lies, not realizing that it was a sequel. So when I opened up to the first page and realized that it was, I was pleasantly surprised. There was a bit too much overlap in the beginning to get a new reader spun up on things. You really needed to read the first book to fully understand the second, so her back tracking, and at one point blantantly repeating word for word a few pages of the first book, was annoying. But it ended quickly and this second b...more
eThe most striking thing about this is the very conversational style of writing. It is as if the main character and first person narrator is sitting with you in your living room and telling you all about what happened to her. This can be very engaging, but can also be a little bit jarring, particularly when her asides take you out of the story and her endless analysis of her choices in a specific moment. Foreshadowing is also a little heavy-handed as well as frequent. ("If I had known what ...more
This, along with its sequel Sliver of Truth, are thrillers by Lisa Unger.
Beautiful Lies is a halfway decent story, and I admit I got caught up in it while reading. However, I suspect if I hadn't I would have found a number of inconsistencies in the plot. Sliver of Truth I enjoyed considerably less. For one, the speaker spends a considerable amount of time addressing the reader directly. For two, the speaker offers up a lot of background information that is completely irrelevant to pl...more
Beautiful Lies is a halfway decent story, and I admit I got caught up in it while reading. However, I suspect if I hadn't I would have found a number of inconsistencies in the plot. Sliver of Truth I enjoyed considerably less. For one, the speaker spends a considerable amount of time addressing the reader directly. For two, the speaker offers up a lot of background information that is completely irrelevant to pl...more
There should be a law that sequels be labeled as such. No hint to be found that this is a follow up on the front or back cover- but once you're reading it becomes all too clear. A sequel should not reference the preceding book relentlessly, but this one does. Even more annoying is that the book starts at the end, jumps and works it's way back to the conclusion again- more or less counting on the fact that you are already emotionally invested in the protagonist from the first book.
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The prologue to SLIVER OF TRUTH starts out looking like a book that should be called "Scenes from a Marriage." A ho-hum marriage, at that. Told in third person from the wife's point of view, we hear her gripe about her husband (internally). She's a journalist. He does something else (something that doesn't matter). But all that changes by the prologue's end.
Chapter 1 puts the reader in the protagonist's head. And it's written in first person (Ridley Jones' point of view--more...more
Chapter 1 puts the reader in the protagonist's head. And it's written in first person (Ridley Jones' point of view--more...more
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This series has really caught my attention. The series is about Ridley Jones, a journalist living in New York City, who has discovered some interesting things about her family. The first book, Beautiful Lies, sets everything up. This book picks up where the first one leaves off. There is a lot of suspense and action. What sets this series apart from others is the style of writing. The author has a unique way with words. The author has a plethora of thoughtful things to say like “an awaren...more
Ridley Jones is drawn back into her family drama when the FBI approaches her with evidence that her criminal Uncle Max is still alive and is following her. She is drawn into what appears to be a legitimate attempt to snare her Uncle and discover his secrets, but ends up being shot and abducted to England.
Not at all believable, with ridiculous plot twists. Not recommended.
Not at all believable, with ridiculous plot twists. Not recommended.
This is a follow-up to a previous novel that I haven't read and although you do not really need to know the previous story I did find myself wondering what had gone on before as it is referred to quite a lot.
Ridley Jones has been to pick up some photographs when she is picked up by the FBI and shown a mysterious figure in the background of her photos. The FBI believe that this person is her uncle Max (who she recently found out is actually her father) who everyone thought was dead a...more
Ridley Jones has been to pick up some photographs when she is picked up by the FBI and shown a mysterious figure in the background of her photos. The FBI believe that this person is her uncle Max (who she recently found out is actually her father) who everyone thought was dead a...more
***Spoiler Alert***
Toward the end of the story, "Beautiful Lies", Nick tells Ridley that he found her through the Post Article. However, in the beginning of the story, on the morning Ridley saves the little boy, she stops to talk to her neighbor who is complaining about the noise from the new tennant upstairs (Nick). Ridley even commented to herself that she was aware the new tennant had started moving in the night before. So, Nick had already moved in BEFORE the event whic...more
Toward the end of the story, "Beautiful Lies", Nick tells Ridley that he found her through the Post Article. However, in the beginning of the story, on the morning Ridley saves the little boy, she stops to talk to her neighbor who is complaining about the noise from the new tennant upstairs (Nick). Ridley even commented to herself that she was aware the new tennant had started moving in the night before. So, Nick had already moved in BEFORE the event whic...more
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I read this book in almost one day, while I traveled home to California on airplanes, and then finishing it up the next morning. It was the sequel to Beautiful Lies. Another fast paced whodunit what-is-going-on mystery thriller type book. Very enjoyable, and I even jotted a few of my favorite quotes from the book, so I do feel that it is good writing (unlike Dan Brown, Unger knows how to write compellingly).
I did feel like there was a little too much background given - in case you ha...more
I did feel like there was a little too much background given - in case you ha...more
The story of RIdley Jones and Project Rescue continues. We have a first person narrator in the person of Ridley and she talks to the readers. A truly strange feeling especially if you read the first part of the story. Ridley discovers that her life has a lot more lies than she ever thought. This includes Jake the man she thought she loved and she hoped was returned. The story crosses the ocean and many people die in pursuit of Max Smiley and who he really is. Dylan Grace becomes part of he...more
Almost a year after reading the first book, BEAUTIFUL LIES (which I absolutely loved), I picked up the sequel. I had no idea there was going to be a sequel when I finished the first book. Interestingly enough, neither did the author. According to an interview I read, she said the lead character just wouldn't leave her alone, and insisted her story wasn't over yet. And oh, boy, was she ever right! I was drawn into this book from the very first page. I adored the protagonist--maybe even more this...more
Ridley is back and more tenacious than ever. We learn more about her mysterious Uncle Max and her moody boyfriend Jake in this novel. Secrets are flying left and right, and lead to a thrilling conclusion. Ridley is philosophical once more, and more realistic. During a moment when Death teases Ridley, she thinks, "I suspect that grief is worse than death. When someone you love has died, it's almost impossible to get your head around it."(p. 211) How true. When she covers some unpl...more
Yuck - apparently a sequel, since she frequently refers to the first book. That is really irritating. In addition, this female protagonist is stupid, so I don't really care what happens to her, except, of course, she survives without a scratch...
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Compared to "Beautiful Lies", "Sliver of Truth" is faster-paced and not as filled with nuances and intricate observations that I loved in "Beautiful Lies". Also, i felt like the voice of Ridley - the main character of both novels and from whose perspective both stories are told - has changed from being slightly tentative and thoughtful to being somewhat harsher and more determined. Which I think brilliantly reflects how much the events she's experienced has changed ...more
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This is the follow-up to Lisa Unger's first novel, Beautiful Lies. I absolutely loved Beautiful Lies. It was fast-paced, the plot was intriguing, the ending was good and the characters were interesting, relatable and complex. This book was good but not quite as good as the first one. The plot sort of explodes onward from where it left off in Beautiful Lies and becomes a little bit unruly. Also, the book was a little heavy on the foreshadowing of future plot points. That said, it was very e...more
SLIVER OF TRUTH is the sequel to BEAUTIFUL LIES by Lisa Unger. I was quite impressed with BL so I was looking forward to getting right into this one. I listened to the audiobook again because the reader Mary Ann Lee was wonderful in BL. I thought this book had a strong beginning and midpoint and maybe lost of little luster by the end. Overall it was a good book. I thought BL did a good job at building the base of characters and this book carried them throughout with only a few character iss...more
I picked this up off the shelf not realizing it was a sequel to a book I'd never read. In a way, I'm glad because I'd have probably been frustrated with how much of this book was spent "reminding" the reader of the earlier incidents, but it also was challenging since I think I was meant to already have some sort of relationship with the lead character and her associates that was lacking. (The book is a first person account as if someone is telling the story to the reader, full of phr...more
(Sequel to "Beautiful Lies")
Ridley had quite an adventure in the last book, but it apparently didn't end there. She's approached by the FBI with some shocking accusations. This leads her on a whole new adventure to find the truth (and herself in the process). She uncovers some things she really wishes she hadn't along the way...
I can't say much more without giving things away. It was another fast paced adventure, and I couldn't put it down! I was kind of disapp...more
Ridley had quite an adventure in the last book, but it apparently didn't end there. She's approached by the FBI with some shocking accusations. This leads her on a whole new adventure to find the truth (and herself in the process). She uncovers some things she really wishes she hadn't along the way...
I can't say much more without giving things away. It was another fast paced adventure, and I couldn't put it down! I was kind of disapp...more
Unger as a writer intrigues me, especially in these Ridley Jones books. She isn't interested in resolving things into nice neat packages, which is how most crime novels seem to end. I dig that about her. And she really understands the psychology of people, even effed up evil people, and how complicated we all are and why we behave the way we do. No one gets a neat, tidy ending in this book. I found myself nodding thoughtfully at some of the hypothetical questions Ridley poses to me, the rea...more
So I'll admit the first 20 or so pages were torturous summary- and the first half of the book was flecked with the same, but about a quarter way in (I know too many numbers) a new development was introduced and we got our goal/plot. From that point, it got really good. I cannot even begin to describe how many times my jaw dropped (or I gasped out loud much to my own embarrassment). I felt myself go angry, go sympathetic and sad, even excited and afraid. I went on the ride of this book and it was...more
This was a good follow up to “Beautiful Lies”. It was quite a mystery and I found that you really had to listen or you could easily miss something, but it all comes together in the end.
This story starts off with a woman and her husband going missing, her name is Myra and she is a journalist who has written stories about Operation Rescue, she was working on something to do with Max Smiley when she was taken.
A year ago Ridley Jones’ life changed when she found out she was part ...more
This story starts off with a woman and her husband going missing, her name is Myra and she is a journalist who has written stories about Operation Rescue, she was working on something to do with Max Smiley when she was taken.
A year ago Ridley Jones’ life changed when she found out she was part ...more
Ridley Jones is back in Lisa Unger's second book, Sliver of Truth. When the FBI show up and want to see her personal photographs, she thinks they are back about Project: Rescue. But what they are really back about is the shadow lurking in all of her photographs. Could that really be her "Uncle" Max, the man she learned was her biological father? No, she was sure it couldn't be him because she had spread his ashes after his death. Surely there was another explanation, and she needed to ...more
Parts I liked, parts really bugged me. The author speaks directly to the reader at times, and I'm not saying that's a bad thing or that it shouldn't be done, but, it didn't sit right with me. She even speaks to the reader advising them on whether they should go ahead and read the first book, Beautiful Lies, or this one first and frankly misleads them. Unger says it shouldn't matter if the first is read first, but I think you will be lost and will have missed out on a lot if the books are not ...more
so, apparently i can't type reviews anymore because fiona sees me do it, comes over, hits a few keys on ole blue, and bam! review gone.
sigh.
in this sequel to "beautiful lies" once more ridley suffers the slings and arrows of seriously outrageous fortune. her relationship with the sexy but moody jake is on the fritz (clearly, she did not heed keanu's warning from the film "speed" that relationships started under intense situations don't exactly scream l...more
sigh.
in this sequel to "beautiful lies" once more ridley suffers the slings and arrows of seriously outrageous fortune. her relationship with the sexy but moody jake is on the fritz (clearly, she did not heed keanu's warning from the film "speed" that relationships started under intense situations don't exactly scream l...more
This novel follows the search by Ridley Jones for her heredity after her first novel, 'Beautiful Lies" in which she learned she was adopted started us on a mystery adventure. That may not sound like a 4**** book but the author develops characters very well and her writing literally talks directly to us in order to explain her thoughts and feelings. 352 pages but I didn't want to put it down. Her picture makes her look like a 20 year old and for one so young, she delves deeply.
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Lisa Unger is an award-winning New York Times and international bestselling author. Her novels have sold over 1 million copies in the U.S. and have been translated into 26 different languages.
Her writing has been hailed as “masterful” (St. Petersburg Times), “sensational” (Publishers Weekly) and “sophisticated” (New York Daily News) with “gripping narrative and evocative, muscular pros...more
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