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I agree...so what did you make of Paul ordering champagne? Said it was their anniversary but not wedding? Does that have something to do with the bracelet???????
I’m not sure what Anniversary he was celebrating -maybe it was a wedding anniversary. Paul was made out to be suspicious in the beginning. Then we see that he is caring and loving and was only moody because of his writers block. He cared deeply for Amber when she was in the hospital. I believe that he didn’t read the diaries, he only found them that day he put up the tree and he finished putting up the tree and decorating it. He really wouldn’t even had time to read them all. I can’t imagine that he’s actually as psychotic as his wife. It doesn’t make any sense. It’s the authors job to wrap up the mystery and if she wanted to leave her readers hanging by implicating Paul it should have been clear that he was up to something. In my opinion, the bracelet addition just ruins a good ending
Agree aboutbracelet unnecessary. I think we're going to see tha more often now possibly as a set-up for a sequel. Was sure bout Claire being dead-buuuuut there was no funeral,bones would not necessarily be tested after fire in her home, and in the end with her" Sometimes I lie" she said "my sister is dead.
But it was also strange when she was first in the com and Paul and Claire were arguing. They both knew where Amber "went" that night why didn't Paul tell the police more? Looking back it seems to me maybe he did read some of the diary knew she went to Claire's and of course Claire knew how Amber's accident happened. IDK I am annoyed that the author didn't leave enough clues. I think Edward is dead bc of the mess comment that was mentioned and I think Claire is dead so it only leaves Paul or a split personality Amber (bc she's also Taylor-maybe that's significant). Idk but thanks for brainstorming with me. I immediantly finished the book and went to the questions to try to help me sort thru the book!
I feel like I have annalize everything that some how it's all subtlely significant! Augh!
I don't care enough-I'm done-it's not James Joyce.
Lol! True enough, but it’s bothersome to feel manipulated.
AGREE! It makes me feel I'm playing into the manipulation by continuing to discuss it. I enjoyed the book, but def feel I didn't "miss something" author definitely left questions unanswered. Let her write her sequel, if that's her plan, but I'm done with this book ; ))
PS I hate that the comment section doesn't let you go back and insert word or punctuation-so annoying. : ))
the bracelet part was dumb! If Paul read the diaries and truly understood how crazy these to women are, why would be taunt her with the bracelet? He would be assuring his own murder.
I don't think it was Paul who was messing with her; that would be overcomplicated. There's a part in the book where Claire visits Amber and she brings the bracelet but I'm pretty sure at the end of that chapter it says something along the lines of "the bracelet is gone and so is my sister" and then later on we here about Edwards death and that both Amber and Claire had no alibis. I think that Claire attempted to murder Edward and somehow he got access to the bracelet. My guess Claire tried to frame Amber for Edwards murder by leaving the bracelet but obviously Edward didn't die. That could be a stretch though.
Interesting idea with Paul having read the diaries
Since the author will have another book "Sometimes I Kill" so that could be part 2. And with the news on the tv, I took it that Claire kills Madeline - cause the headline on the TV was ambiguous - Madeline Frost Murder Trial - is she the victim or the murder? I think she was the victim, because her house was burnt. That's my prediction for the sequel - so Claire is the one on trial - and Claire left the bracelet thru a contact, was it Edward?..
Hmmm. Interesting. Also, I didn’t know the author is writing another book. I probably won’t read it because I don’t appreciate the manipulation. If you want to write a story filled with twists, you have to explain them. They have to make sense. The ending to this book didn’t make sense. Deus ex machina much? Disappointing.
Tere J, by reading the description of Sometimes I Kill, it seems unrelated to Sometimes I Lie. I honestly don't think there's a need for a sequal .
She set it up for a sequel with the bracelet
I don't like Amber enough to read another book. I agree with Jackie.
Did the book ever explain how Amber's parents died? I thought at one point it said that both of their parents died on Christmas Eve??!!
Amber's parents died in a bus crash in Italy.
Jackie, I thought the "Taylor made me do it" was her way of keeping control over Taylor/Amber - not that she really made her do it, but that's what Claire would tell everyone if Taylor/Amber ever told.
I, too, am confused about the bracelet, though.
Why do you say that Edward didn't die? I thought it was pretty clear that he did.
Sorry if I bump up this thread but I've finished reading and rereading this "book" and as I understood:
1. Claire isn't a "main" liar such as Amber: she is more real in this sense (even if she wrote in her diary that she sometimes lies too). In her diary (in what we've been given to read), we know that Claire, the night of the explosion of her Nana's apartment, told Amber that she thought it (murdering Claire's parents) was what she (Amber) wanted. When Amber is destroying the diary's pages she said she's translating what Claire wrote ("Taylor made me do it"): it's not clear if she referred to the fact she didn't want to read this part (because she didn't want the guilt but feels the guilt notwithstanding) or she reads what's only between the lines.
2. Claire didn't know Ed's address and when the detective talked with Amber about finding Ed's remains she said that Claire didn't have an alibi and that she herself didn't have one too but no one would suspect herself, so I understood that Amber is guilty at least of sabotaging the sunbed, but is Ed still alive? We don't know for sure.
3. The fire happened not to Madeline's house but at Claire's (the old Amber's childhood home): Amber put the petrol cans in the shed at Madeline's. Amber wrote a letter to Claire as Madeline, threatening to kill Claire in the same way Claire killed her parents.
Madeline is the scapegoat and Amber wants her alive.
So Claire is "really" dead, or so Amber thinks.
4. The bracelet is only in Claire's hands... So: did she survive the fire? I don't know.
5. I don't really know what the "anniversary" Paul meant.. I tried searching for something happened in Spring but nothing came to mind.
But it's really confusing and irrealistic that there were so many sociopaths in one book, so many crimes unresolved (do you think police wouldn't find anything on Amber?).. bleah.
Maybe Paul is talking about when they meet :-k
I just finished it and I get that the diary wasn't written by the woman in the coma. That was the hard thing my brain couldn't accept. The girl I thought I was reading about wasn't the insecure one. But the coma girl was "damaged" because her family took in the friend who burned her house down. So Amber was the rich one and Claire was the poor one who killed her family. It was confusing to me while reading the diary trying to figure out how these sisters were close in age when there was no mention of any little sister. Then when the parents came to visit turn out to be dead from a car accident but later you read that they were murdered. My brain still is trying to figure it out only because the whole time the reading the diary entries I am imagining coma lady. The only reason why the rapist is in this book is to take the focus off the crazy situation and who could it be if it's not the husband. You are led up to the very last second to think it's the guy that crashed the car that cause her head trauma.
Why do we think Edward didn’t die? (Other than the bracelet).
Maybe Jo left the bracelet because Amber killed her Friend Claire. (Jo went from invisible friend to Amber’s second personality…
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I’m not sure what Anniversary he was celebrating -maybe it was a wedding anniversary. Paul was made out to be suspicious in the beginning. Then we see that he is caring and loving and was only moody because of his writers block. He cared deeply for Amber when she was in the hospital. I believe that he didn’t read the diaries, he only found them that day he put up the tree and he finished putting up the tree and decorating it. He really wouldn’t even had time to read them all. I can’t imagine that he’s actually as psychotic as his wife. It doesn’t make any sense. It’s the authors job to wrap up the mystery and if she wanted to leave her readers hanging by implicating Paul it should have been clear that he was up to something. In my opinion, the bracelet addition just ruins a good ending
Agree aboutbracelet unnecessary. I think we're going to see tha more often now possibly as a set-up for a sequel. Was sure bout Claire being dead-buuuuut there was no funeral,bones would not necessarily be tested after fire in her home, and in the end with her" Sometimes I lie" she said "my sister is dead.
But it was also strange when she was first in the com and Paul and Claire were arguing. They both knew where Amber "went" that night why didn't Paul tell the police more? Looking back it seems to me maybe he did read some of the diary knew she went to Claire's and of course Claire knew how Amber's accident happened. IDK I am annoyed that the author didn't leave enough clues. I think Edward is dead bc of the mess comment that was mentioned and I think Claire is dead so it only leaves Paul or a split personality Amber (bc she's also Taylor-maybe that's significant). Idk but thanks for brainstorming with me. I immediantly finished the book and went to the questions to try to help me sort thru the book!
I feel like I have annalize everything that some how it's all subtlely significant! Augh!
I don't care enough-I'm done-it's not James Joyce.
Lol! True enough, but it’s bothersome to feel manipulated.
AGREE! It makes me feel I'm playing into the manipulation by continuing to discuss it. I enjoyed the book, but def feel I didn't "miss something" author definitely left questions unanswered. Let her write her sequel, if that's her plan, but I'm done with this book ; ))PS I hate that the comment section doesn't let you go back and insert word or punctuation-so annoying. : ))
the bracelet part was dumb! If Paul read the diaries and truly understood how crazy these to women are, why would be taunt her with the bracelet? He would be assuring his own murder.
I don't think it was Paul who was messing with her; that would be overcomplicated. There's a part in the book where Claire visits Amber and she brings the bracelet but I'm pretty sure at the end of that chapter it says something along the lines of "the bracelet is gone and so is my sister" and then later on we here about Edwards death and that both Amber and Claire had no alibis. I think that Claire attempted to murder Edward and somehow he got access to the bracelet. My guess Claire tried to frame Amber for Edwards murder by leaving the bracelet but obviously Edward didn't die. That could be a stretch though.
Interesting idea with Paul having read the diaries
Since the author will have another book "Sometimes I Kill" so that could be part 2. And with the news on the tv, I took it that Claire kills Madeline - cause the headline on the TV was ambiguous - Madeline Frost Murder Trial - is she the victim or the murder? I think she was the victim, because her house was burnt. That's my prediction for the sequel - so Claire is the one on trial - and Claire left the bracelet thru a contact, was it Edward?..
Hmmm. Interesting. Also, I didn’t know the author is writing another book. I probably won’t read it because I don’t appreciate the manipulation. If you want to write a story filled with twists, you have to explain them. They have to make sense. The ending to this book didn’t make sense. Deus ex machina much? Disappointing.
Tere J, by reading the description of Sometimes I Kill, it seems unrelated to Sometimes I Lie. I honestly don't think there's a need for a sequal .
She set it up for a sequel with the bracelet
I don't like Amber enough to read another book. I agree with Jackie.
Did the book ever explain how Amber's parents died? I thought at one point it said that both of their parents died on Christmas Eve??!!
Amber's parents died in a bus crash in Italy.
Jackie, I thought the "Taylor made me do it" was her way of keeping control over Taylor/Amber - not that she really made her do it, but that's what Claire would tell everyone if Taylor/Amber ever told.I, too, am confused about the bracelet, though.
Why do you say that Edward didn't die? I thought it was pretty clear that he did.
Sorry if I bump up this thread but I've finished reading and rereading this "book" and as I understood:1. Claire isn't a "main" liar such as Amber: she is more real in this sense (even if she wrote in her diary that she sometimes lies too). In her diary (in what we've been given to read), we know that Claire, the night of the explosion of her Nana's apartment, told Amber that she thought it (murdering Claire's parents) was what she (Amber) wanted. When Amber is destroying the diary's pages she said she's translating what Claire wrote ("Taylor made me do it"): it's not clear if she referred to the fact she didn't want to read this part (because she didn't want the guilt but feels the guilt notwithstanding) or she reads what's only between the lines.
2. Claire didn't know Ed's address and when the detective talked with Amber about finding Ed's remains she said that Claire didn't have an alibi and that she herself didn't have one too but no one would suspect herself, so I understood that Amber is guilty at least of sabotaging the sunbed, but is Ed still alive? We don't know for sure.
3. The fire happened not to Madeline's house but at Claire's (the old Amber's childhood home): Amber put the petrol cans in the shed at Madeline's. Amber wrote a letter to Claire as Madeline, threatening to kill Claire in the same way Claire killed her parents.
Madeline is the scapegoat and Amber wants her alive.
So Claire is "really" dead, or so Amber thinks.
4. The bracelet is only in Claire's hands... So: did she survive the fire? I don't know.
5. I don't really know what the "anniversary" Paul meant.. I tried searching for something happened in Spring but nothing came to mind.
But it's really confusing and irrealistic that there were so many sociopaths in one book, so many crimes unresolved (do you think police wouldn't find anything on Amber?).. bleah.
Maybe Paul is talking about when they meet :-k
I just finished it and I get that the diary wasn't written by the woman in the coma. That was the hard thing my brain couldn't accept. The girl I thought I was reading about wasn't the insecure one. But the coma girl was "damaged" because her family took in the friend who burned her house down. So Amber was the rich one and Claire was the poor one who killed her family. It was confusing to me while reading the diary trying to figure out how these sisters were close in age when there was no mention of any little sister. Then when the parents came to visit turn out to be dead from a car accident but later you read that they were murdered. My brain still is trying to figure it out only because the whole time the reading the diary entries I am imagining coma lady. The only reason why the rapist is in this book is to take the focus off the crazy situation and who could it be if it's not the husband. You are led up to the very last second to think it's the guy that crashed the car that cause her head trauma.
Why do we think Edward didn’t die? (Other than the bracelet).
Maybe Jo left the bracelet because Amber killed her Friend Claire. (Jo went from invisible friend to Amber’s second personality…
