The intimacy conventionally associated with a first-person narration collapses into irony, as the reader must decide whether they are another victim of Amber’s very coaxing strategy of protecting herself through evasion. Plunged into her claustrophobic perception, the reader must sort through prevarications, obfuscations, and elaborate smokescreens to get even a sense of Amber Reynolds’s character. This item: Sometimes I Lie: A psychological thriller with a killer twist you'll never forget by Alice Feeney Paperback 7.99 HIS AND HERS: the thrilling, suspenseful and gripping new psychological thriller from the best selling author of Sometimes I Lie by ALICE FEENEY Paperback 7. Everything she admits, including that she lies, might be a lie. She even goes by two different names, Amber and Taylor. Amber explains at one point how every morning she dons her face like an outfit and says, “I unzip the body of who I used to be and step outside myself a newborn Russian doll wondering how many other versions of me are still hidden inside” (252).
Amber is the first-person narrator and protagonist of the novel, and defining her character is a challenge given that she admits that she is a compulsive liar and admits to pretending to be someone she is not in critical relationships including in her workplace, her family, and her marriage.
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