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Sliver of Truth (Ridley Jones #2)

by Lisa Unger (Goodreads Author)

3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 · rating details · 1,851 ratings · 264 reviews

In Beautiful Lies, Ridley Jones stepped off a street corner and into an abyss of violence, deception, and fear. She is being a lot more careful about where she steps and trying to get on with her life when another seemingly mundane act-picking up a few envelopes of prints at a photo lab-puts Ridley at the nexus of a global network of crime. A shadowy figure of a man appear...more

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Published January 2nd 2007 by Shaye Areheart Books (first published January 1st 2007)

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Aug 26, 2008 Maggie rated it 4 of 5 stars

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

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Apr 21, 2013 Mathilde rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Back to the tale of Ridley Jones. The book opens with Ridley having problems with Jake and the FBI telling her that her uncle Max is still alive. Based on information from Jake, Ridley travels to Detroit (her father and Max’s childhood home) and finds out unexpected info about Max from his mentally ill cousin. People end up missing and dead (again); Ridley ends up in England (she doesn’t know how), no one is who she thinks they are. I had a sort of love-hate relationship with this book. Although...more

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Nov 19, 2012 Matt Schiariti rated it 5 of 5 stars

"the Beginning"

That's how Beautiful Lies ends. Ridley learns the truth about her real parentage, what Project Rescue was really about and in doing so tries to pick up the pieces of what she thought her life was and tries to find happiness with private investigator/sculptor/Project Rescue victim, Jake.

And then there's Sliver of Truth. Things with Ridley and her 'parents' Ben and Grace are still strained as she's still trying to overcome all the deceit and betrayal she suffered in the previous yea...more "the Beginning"

That's how Beautiful Lies ends. Ridley learns the truth about her real parentage, what Project Rescue was really about and in doing so tries to pick up the pieces of what she thought her life was and tries to find happiness with private investigator/sculptor/Project Rescue victim, Jake.

And then there's Sliver of Truth. Things with Ridley and her 'parents' Ben and Grace are still strained as she's still trying to overcome all the deceit and betrayal she suffered in the previous year. Things with Jake aren't going so well either. He's becoming distant, and while he says they should stop prying into the Project Rescue issue even further to try to discover all of its secrets he remains as obsessed with it as she is, more even. Why? Well, as Max once said, 'there's more to people than what you see on the surface, kid'.

Enter Dylan Grace, FBI agent. The government is still looking into Max Smiley's ties to organized crime, which was a result of the investigation into Project Rescue. As it turns out, there's a man who's been observed as watching Ridley everywhere she goes over the past year or so. Dylan Grace has an idea who this shadowy figure is.

At the same time, a news woman and her husband disappear suddenly and mysteriously.

This chain of events outside of her control as well as her own near self destructive writer's need to know the truth in all things, the motivations of people, the secrets behind the mysteries leads Ridley on a continent hopping investigation into who her father Max Smiley really was as well as who she HERSELF is.

Absolutely loved this book. The characterization is top notch and the twists and turns are surprising and plausible as the story's told and when you think back on it, even though surprising, the set up for the twists are definitely there which is a sign of a well thought out and plotted story.

In the end, does every question get answered? Yes and no. Will we see another Ridley Jones book? I would enjoy that but maybe the ending to this two part story is fitting enough. To paraphrase Ridley, 'I guess you were hoping for a neater package, for the happily ever after. Life doesn't work that way'. So part of me would love to have all the answers, like Ridley herself, but a not quite definitive ending could just be the perfect way to end a series full of betrayal, hope, and soul searching. (less)

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Aug 26, 2012 Seth rated it 4 of 5 stars

I seem to have a bad habit of picking up the second book in a series by Lisa Unger. I briefly contemplated pausing to get the first one, but decided to soldier ahead. There were some downsides to that plan and also some benefits. Focusing just on this book, though: I thought it was quite good. There are a few places where it seems like she gets a little tired or feels painted into a corner and doesn't give as airtight an explanation as she could. And I think some of those instances are exacerbat...more

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Apr 23, 2012 Paul rated it 2 of 5 stars

This sequel to "Beautiful Lies" (which I enjoyed), was a flop from beginning to end. Although I didn't care much for the opening of the book, where the narrator's approach in bringing the reader "up to speed" just seemed annoying, I still at that point held out hope for a good plot. Unfortunately, the plot was merely acceptable, nothing more.

Yet, even with that—the annoying opening and the merely acceptable plot—I might still have at least found the book passably entertaining, had it not been fo...more This sequel to "Beautiful Lies" (which I enjoyed), was a flop from beginning to end. Although I didn't care much for the opening of the book, where the narrator's approach in bringing the reader "up to speed" just seemed annoying, I still at that point held out hope for a good plot. Unfortunately, the plot was merely acceptable, nothing more.

Yet, even with that—the annoying opening and the merely acceptable plot—I might still have at least found the book passably entertaining, had it not been for the hack job that the author did on the protagonist. Whereas our "heroine" came off as likeable, intelligent, spunky, and even somewhat complex in the first book, here she just comes off as foolish, irresponsible, and just not at all as likeable as before.

Too add to the mess, some of the choices that the author has made for the storyline just seem so incredibly implausible. For example, the ridiculous love scenes that materialize out of the blue at the most implausible of moments. It's almost as though the author couldn't decide if she wanted to write chick lit or a bona fide suspense/thriller and decided to jarringly switch between the two styles, even within the same chapter.

Another trivial, but illustrative, example is when when she has the protagonist—who is on serious antibiotics at this time while also chasing down a lead through a dangerous, unknown nightclub—drinking beer. I don't know if I should be hating the author at this point for such a stupid implausible choice for her character, or hating the character! Like I said, trivial, but illustrative.

The author also takes a lot of time to dish out the protagonist's feelings in very silly and repetetive teaspoon doses, as though spoonfeeding them to a reader having problems either grasping or remembering the emotions at play in the story.

So, for example, you have a line like, "I was still naive enough to believe that somehow everything was going to be okay," the likes of which crop up all over the story. Unfortunately, the average reader is probably not naive enough to swallow these lame lines this many times in one novel.

Or this gem: "I know, I was being pathetic, a total girl. I needed to focus, so I did." Get that? She just did. If only it were that easy for the reader to stop seeing this character as pathetic at this point.

Incidentally, unless a book is atrocious, I generally finish what I start reading, and this was no exception—but, I did have to take a break every few chapters to read something less frustrating and more enjoyable for a while.

In short, this was a major disappointment following the decent and entertaining first book. I would recommend stopping after the first and going out on a relatively high note.
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Sep 10, 2011 Emily rated it 4 of 5 stars

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 was g...more

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Jan 18, 2010 Jonathan Gramann rated it 1 of 5 stars

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 plot, characte...more

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Sep 06, 2009 Alex rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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.

O.K. - so igno...more

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Apr 21, 2009 Debbi rated it 5 of 5 stars

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 on her later). The...more 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 on her later). The story starts with a scene like something out of a nightmare. Ridley's running . . . it's dark . . . she's in Potter's Field in the Bronx. She's chasing someone . . . there's a pain in her side, fire in her lungs . . . she has a gun. She's going after this shadowy person. Someone else tells her, "Ridley, don't do it. You'll never be able to live with it." The chapter ends . . . well, read it and see for yourself.

Chapter 2 is where the story really starts. You have to love an opening line like, "I bet you thought you'd heard the end of me." ("But I've barely heard the first of you," I thought, and kept going.) Starting this book is like walking into a movie roughly halfway through it. Reading those first few chapters was like having someone catching me up to what's gone before, while I was watching what's taking place. A bit discombobulating at first. (I kept thinking there was too much telling, not enough showing.) But once I settled in, what followed was . . . amazing.

Ridley Jones, at some point before the story begins, has learned that the people she's always known as her parents are actually foster parents. She was placed with them by an organization called Project Rescue. This organization was founded by her beloved late Uncle Max, who was--get this--actually, her real father. These few sentences may help save some confusion for you upfront--but not all, because there's Jake, another Project Rescue child, with whom she has an on-and-off relationship. And some other guy named Christian Luna who's killed, for reasons I could never figure out. (None of these things I'm telling you are spoilers. This is all in Chapter 2, believe it or not.) Somehow all this truth comes out after a photo of Ridley is taken rescuing a small boy from getting run over by a van. A photo that makes her famous. (Still in Chapter 2.) I can't remember all the details, all of it came at me so fast and furious, I found myself turning back after reading several pages and saying, "Now, who's Jake? And what's this got to do with Project Rescue? And what does Christian Luna have to do with all this?"

But like I said, after I kind of got an understanding of what was going on, the book really gripped me and never let me go--sometime after the FBI questions Ridley about a series of photos of her in which a shadowy figure keeps appearing. They think the shadowy guy is her Uncle Max, but her Uncle Max is supposed to be dead. But then Ridley gets these weird phone calls with just static and breathing, then the caller hanging up. Plus there's a spooky scene in her uncle's apartment (really creepy!). Lisa Unger's eye for detail and her ability to build suspense with it, really got under my skin. And next thing you know, people are dying. And Ridley ends up in trouble over her head.

I read somewhere that thrillers and suspense stories should have a roller coaster storyline. But this narrative wasn't a roller coaster. It was more like a freight train. Barreling downhill, full throttle. With no brakes.

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Oct 19, 2010 Ashley rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Sep 25, 2011 Kellie rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011-reads, mystery-thrillers

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 awareness of...more

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May 08, 2008 Galen Johnson rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: mysteries-thrillers

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.

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Apr 25, 2011 Donna rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: a-z-challenge, library, 2011

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 after some dod...more

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Jan 13, 2011 Debbie added it

***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 which caused the Post arti...more

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Sep 27, 2010 Marleen rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Dec 19, 2009 Naomi rated it 4 of 5 stars

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 hadn't read Be...more

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Aug 22, 2012 Liz rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2008

I just finished reading 'Sliver of Truth' by Lisa Unger. What I did not realize that is the second novel after 'Beautiful Lies'. By the time I realized this it was too late; I was hooked. How long did it take? 4 pages into it - I couldn't put it down.

It's not the best book I've ever read, but I certainly found it compelling. It is written in the first person which normally sends me around the bend, (I think that Kathy Reichs or Patricia Cornwell often writes in this format, I can't remember whic...more

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Jul 29, 2011 Nancy added it

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 her life...more

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Jul 21, 2010 Lacey Savage rated it 5 of 5 stars

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

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Jan 21, 2009 Ginny Marie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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 unpleasant truths, s...more

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Feb 04, 2010 Gloria rated it 1 of 5 stars

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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Jan 20, 2011 Marca rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Currently listening to audio. Turns out to be a sequel to Beautiful Lies. Ridley is moaning on and on about her Uncle Max again. She talks to the reader (as she did in Beautiful Lies), and refers to the former book, "you may remember...." Ridley is an annoying character - don't really like her much, but the story is intriguing so I'll keep listening.

Still listening - OMG! Can this speaker let one thought go unspoken? Now she is telling me the reader how to think about her! I'd pull the plug, but...more

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Nov 25, 2012 Beth Anne rated it 2 of 5 stars

I got this book in a four package special on my Kindle. It wasn't until I started reading that I realized this book is a sequel to Beautiful Lies. To be honest, I felt like this book was an unnecessary follow up to Beautiful Lies. The first several chapters were more than difficult to read given Unger's propensity to rehash the entirety of Beautiful Lies, even going as far as to "copy and paste" entire passages. I found myself skimming through those first passages, wondering all the while if a n...more

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Jan 11, 2011 Karen rated it 1 of 5 stars Recommends it for: No one

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Jul 19, 2012 Max rated it 2 of 5 stars

Other than the fact that the book shamefully lends from the previous novel in the series (I didn't realise the book was 'part 2' until I came on here to see!) but the little asides to the reader 'If you've been with me since the beginning' are truly atrocious...
In a nutshell, the protagonist is a writer who has a dark past, an awful taste in men and faints when she gets stressed out. Lots of awful people are after her dad and willing to go through her to find him and we follow her on a find-the-...more

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Jun 01, 2009 Karalee rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: summer-09-chall, fiction-general, mystery-suspense

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 enjoyab...more

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Apr 29, 2013 Robin rated it 3 of 5 stars

so this book picks up right where the first one ends. as Ridley tries to pick up the pieces of what is left after learning the truth about her parents and biological parents, and Project Rescue, she continues to make a life with Jake and attempts to mend things with her parents even though she claims not to ever want to speak to them again. she continues to have all sorts of issues with trust, not knowing what to believe since it seems like no one is who they claim to be and her quest to figure...more so this book picks up right where the first one ends. as Ridley tries to pick up the pieces of what is left after learning the truth about her parents and biological parents, and Project Rescue, she continues to make a life with Jake and attempts to mend things with her parents even though she claims not to ever want to speak to them again. she continues to have all sorts of issues with trust, not knowing what to believe since it seems like no one is who they claim to be and her quest to figure out the truth of the trail that has been left behind.

there were a couple of things i called right away so no, i wasnt surprised when they became true. the whole thing about Max - just like i realized he was Ridley's biological father long before she did, i also knew he was still alive. there were too many things that made it seem that he faked his death. he knew he had messed up on a lot of things in life and his letter to Ridley at the end of the book really portrayed that. i still feel that he was a horrible person when it came to most things - i mean how can you like someone who committed numerous murders, was capable of all kinds of violence and physical abusiveness towards women, had ha huge part in the organized crime world and so much more? but when it came to Ridley, he did actually love and care about her. i think she was one of the only things in life that was actually important to him.

another thing i assumed in the first book, though there were many attempts to make the reader believe otherwise and made you feel safe and secure about the character of Jake and it disappointed me a little to learn the real truth about him in the second book. mainly because i liked Ridley and Jake together, but it had to be that he was undercover because otherwise a couple of things that didnt make sense in the first book, still would not have been properly addressed (which they were finally in the second book). the timing of when he moved into the building versus what he told her. i caught that right away. and also how they never figured out WHICH Project Rescue baby he was (being that he wasnt really one). then there were signs of him not being who he said he was when he kept acting distant and pulling away from as he realized the truth was going to come out sooner than he wanted. i was sad he lied to her about almost everything, though he claimed his love for her was real, i dont blame her for feeling betrayed and not being able to trust or be with him anymore.

one thing that bugged me a bit was that there was a lot of repetition to remind you of what happened in the first book, which i suppose would have been good if i hadnt just recently read the first book. being that i actually just did, i felt like it was a little redundant at times. another thing that bothered me somewhat was that Ridley was portrayed more clueless and foolish in this book than the first one. her constant whining and asking you if you wondered how she got where she was after she just explained it felt a little off a times. but i still cheered her on to learn everything she sought to find. i dont know if it is the way she talks or conveys things, or maybe it is just the writer's style, which was actually kind of interesting and different because it was very conversational style as if you are sitting there listening to her tell her story, not just reading it.

in the end, there is closure on a lot of things that werent explained well in the first book and there is closure on much of the story. but not every question gets answered and there are certain things still left hanging. to paraphrase Ridley, 'i guess you were hoping for a neater package, for the happily ever after. life doesn't work that way'. so true. part of me would love to have all the answers, because i do like closure and it bothers me when things are left up in the air or for the reader/ viewer to interpret and decide themselves, but a not quite definitive ending could just be the perfect way to end a series full of betrayal, hope, and soul searching or even leave the door open to continue it some more.

"when we sense something truly dark, something monstrous, we can pull a veil over our eyes... because to acknowledge it is to take responsibility. once you know, you have to do something about it. and that can be the most frightening thing of all." - page 47

"instead of finding clarity from knowing the truth about my past, i had felt my delicate self-concept becoming more and more nebulous." -page 197

"you can cut the ties that bind but not without losing part of yourself. you can walk away and hide from the people who made you, but you'll always hear them calling your name." page 204

"i think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions." -page 350
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Feb 04, 2013 Teri rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book was a sequel to Beautiful Lies, which I haven't read. That proved a bit of a problem initially since reference were made to situations with which I wasn't familiar, but enough background emerged to provide the information I needed. I like author Lisa Unger's approach to suspense and to human frailties. We truly are the sum of our parts, the light and the dark. The uniqueness of this novel was not the storytelling (which was very compelling) but more in the fact that it didn't end with...more

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Dec 31, 2012 Sandra rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: dpl

It is was a sequel to

, & it was equally superb as its predecessor! The book hooked me from the very start, & I finished it quickly; I hated each time I had to put it down to move through daily life's demands.
The mystery was excellent, not at all predicate. There are characters to love, characters to hate, & characters to love & hate. All of Unger's books have had these qualities, qualities that create suspense & make a great thriller!
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Sep 20, 2012 Will rated it 3 of 5 stars

This sequal takes you on a crazy ride through London and Manhatten. It keeps you guessing and wondering. I only gave it 3 stars because I didn't like that she constantly refers to the first book and there were some things that she must have literally cut and pasted from the other book to "fill you in" but it felt a little cheezy. She also talks to the reader at times, and it takes you away from the story a little bit reminding you that your just reading a book, that was frustrating.

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“I think most people are just trying to be happy, and that most of their actions, however misguided, are in line with that goal. Most people just want to feel they belong somewhere, want to be loved, and want to feel they're important to someone. If you really examine all the wrongheaded and messed-up things they do, they can most often be traced back to that basic desire. The abusers, the addicted, the cruel and unpleasant, the manipulators --these are just people who started this quest for happiness in the basement of their lives. Someone communicated to them through word or deed that they were undeserving, so they think they have to claw their way there over the backs of others, leaving scars and creating damage. Of course, they only create more misery for themselves and others.” — 55 people liked it

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