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Beautiful Lies: A Novel [Abridged] [Audiobook] (Audio CD)

de Lisa Unger (Author), Jenna Lamia (Reader)
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Unger's well-crafted, suspenseful debut fiction, in which a bright, resourceful young woman finds her everyday world turned upside down in true Harlan Coben–thriller fashion, is done no favors by this off-kilter audio rendition. The main problem is that reader Lamia sounds a decade younger than the novel's narrator, Ridley Jones. As the book's heroine drifts into and out of jeopardy, fearlessly searching for the truth about her birth and parentage while defying powerful adversaries determined to keep a particularly evil secret, the mood should be noir. Lamia's sound is strictly YA, more girly than gritty. Her performance isn't one note; she makes all the right emotional choices. But she is not vocally versatile enough to do justice to the novel's cast of characters. Asking her to convey the audio image of a rotund, sinister lawyer issuing dire threats, to take one example, is a little like hiring Paris Hilton to stand in for Orson Welles. Not her fault, exactly, if she falls short of the mark.
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Ridley Jones's life is turned upside down when she uncovers a kidnapping and illegal adoption ring, as well as unsavory facts about her own life. Jones's story begins with violence and unfolds as a flashback in which she and her neighbor, a private investigator, first stumble into trouble. Jenna Lamia's sharp, high voice makes Jones sound whiny in her discomfort with her discoveries, as well as with herself. The male voices are sharp and cruel in thought and deed. Unger's story twists and turns with unexpected motives and threats as Jones comes to grips with the "beautiful lies" that have shaped her life. M.B.K. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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3.0étoiles sur 5 Beautiful Lies., Déc 10 2009
This review is from: Beautiful Lies: A Novel (Hardcover)
Good writing and an enjoyable read but the ending is begging for a conclusion to many unanswered questions. Hence the next book "Slivers of truth".
Interesting read and riddled with suspence but overly long with opinions in sections which are an effort by the author to explain her reasoning with the storyline. I hate to reach the end of a book and be expected to purchase the next one for details that should have been explained in the first one. Guess I won't rush into buying this authors other books until they have been around for a while. So I may decide if I need to read several books to complete one story.
I recommend you buy both books at the same time to offset frustration.....
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3.0étoiles sur 5 Family secrets like you can't imagine..., Fév 10 2009
Par GinRobi (Timmins, ON, Canada) - Voir tous mes commentaires
This review is from: Beautiful Lies (Mass Market Paperback)
It all started when Ridley saves a little boy from being run over in the middle of the street. That fifteen minutes of fame - are going to cost her like you wouldn't believe.

A grainy photo and the words: "Are you my daughter?" are shoved under her door, and this starts the entire train of destruction. Everyone she knows has been lying to her, from her parents to her brother, her ex-fiance and friend, Zach and his mother, Esme. Even her deceased Uncle Max lied to her. Everyone is telling her that, because of her act of bravery, it's bringing crazies out of the woodwork, but for some reason, that doesn't ring true for Ridley, and she becomes determined to find out why.

And it seems that the only one she believes she can trust is Jake, a man who recently moved into her apartment building. After a little research, Ridley learns that the woman in the photo, Teresa Elizabeth Stone, had been murdered in 1972 and her 18-month-old daughter, Jessie Amelia Stone, went missing. It was believed that Christina Luna, father of Jessie, had murdered her and disappeared with the child. With Jake's help, she gets in contact with the man who sent her the photo, Christian Luna. He'd found Teresa's body that night, and Jessie missing, and he ran, knowing that he would be a supsect, for Teresa had a restraining order on him, and he'd been banging on her door, drunk as a skunk, earlier that night.

But as Ridley is talking to him in the park, he's shot dead beside her, rifle shot to the head.

Lies upon lies tumble, and Ridley becomes even more determined. Whether or not she is Jessie, she's going to find out what happened over thirty years ago. Who killed Teresa Elizabeth Stone? And what happened to Jessie?

I'd had high hopes. I'd heard such good things about this author that when Crystal suggested this book as a Buddy Read, I jumped on it. I think we both may be regretting the idea.

It's not that it was a bad book. The action was superb, the mystery was great, the plot thick, the lies, deceit and twists ties the reader up in knots. The characters have you wondering, but the main character, Ridley... oh, boy, where do I start?

You can tell she grew up in a bubble of her parents love and money. Naive, she knows about bad things in the world, but she really had no idea. Reading about it is one thing, but being involved is another, and her eyes are being opened rather drastically, rather quickly. But the rambling... OMG, the rambling! It screams FILLER! It may give you an idea about the kind of person she is, how she grew up, yada, yada, yada, blah, blah, blah, but enough is enough! At one point, she even jokes that we might be upset at her rambling but that there's a point to it. I'm sorry, but there was stuff rambled about that had no bearing to the story whatsoever. The rambling drove me crazy, and I even had my husband look at me funny when I yelled: "Get to the point, already!" Not once, but three times.

And while I did feel that spark, that click between her and Jake, the relationship hit high really quick... too quick. First the sex (which is painfully really nothing to gossip about whatsoever,) then the I love you's inside a week? Are we really supposed to believe that? Sure, I felt that connection, but the rest went way too fast. Sorry, Ms. Unger, but readers of the suspense/thriller genre are not that naive.

And the ending - perfect set up for a second book. And honestly, I wasn't happy... Not. One. Bit. Way too many unanswered questions, plus we still don't know who actually killed Teresa Stone. Now I feel like I'm being forced to pick up the second book, Sliver of Truth, in order to find out. To me, that screams: guaranteed sales. From an author's and publisher's stand-point, that's awesome. From a reader's stand-point, a huge load of B.S. At this point, I'm not sure if I'll pick up Sliver of Truth. I feel cheated, and I don't like feeling cheated.

I can't say it was a bad book, cause it wasn't - not to me, anyway. But it wasn't the greatest for me. Do I recommend it? *shrug* The choice is yours.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Beautifully written, Juil 23 2007
Par Jojos "Jojos" (Quebec, Canada) - Voir tous mes commentaires
This review is from: Beautiful Lies: A Novel (Hardcover)
I must say I was surprised. I like that Lisa Unger wrote it with simple words. Nothing complicated. I'm a french canadian english reader and I didn't have to always look for the meaning of words in the dictionnary. It's a profound mystery and I couldn't figure out "who done it"... I read it fast and loved it. :)
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