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The Lie
by C.L. Taylor
HOW CAN ONE CHARACTER BE SO STUPID?
That's literally the thought that was screaming through my head the whole time I was listening/reading this book. The Lie focuses around Emma and is split into the present where she is working in Wales and known by the name Jane Hughes and four years earlier when Emma went on a holiday to Nepal with three of her best friends and only two of them returned alive. Emma has built a new life for herself as Jane but she sudden;y starts receiving ominous messages and must figure out who is threatening her.
So the first thing you need to know about this book is that Emma's friends - Al, Daisy and Leanna - are literally THE WORST people in the world. They're all selfish and just idiotic. When the girls go to the camp in Nepal, it's immediately obvious something weird is going on and Emma knows it yet she just goes with it? I mean..WHY would you give your passports to someone you don't know? Why not just pay the money you would be paying anyway at the end and keep the passport. They are he most precious thing you have when abroad and I know I wouldn't be giving mine up to anyway when halfway up a fecking mountain away from normal civilisation.
There were a lot of times listening to this that I wanted to scream out loud in frustration at both Emma's actions and her friends and how they treated her. Daisy was suppose to be best friend and was literally the worst. I found it really odd how she could turn on Emma so suddenly and be sucked in by Isaac. Having recently read The Girls by Emma Cline which focuses on a cult in California in 1969, I can see how a cult leader can be written to be so charismatic and drawing that you get why people would worship and listen to him. Isaac wasn't like that - apart from being good-looking, he did just come across as being controlling and weird all the time. Not only did Emma stay after being sexually assaulted NOT ONCE BUT TWICE, she also stayed when she knew Isaac had literally locked away a girl and beaten her??? I would be down that mountain in a flash. The part after Emma was almost raped (which was really hard to listen to btw) and Daisy spread around the rumor that Emma had asked for it and was lying made me so mad - especially with what's going on right now with the Stanton rape case. UGH.
Emma's stupidity contInued even when she was Jane. She knew something was off aBout the new girl in the shelter yet she just continued on. WHY WHY WHY!Haven't you learned anything?
The ending was definitely weak and just seemed like such a let down.
To add on: The audiobook for this wasn't great for me either. The narrator put on a lot of strong accents which were not only annoying and distracting sometimes but slowed down her reading. She also made the one gay character, Al, sound really mannish which was unnecessary.
That's literally the thought that was screaming through my head the whole time I was listening/reading this book. The Lie focuses around Emma and is split into the present where she is working in Wales and known by the name Jane Hughes and four years earlier when Emma went on a holiday to Nepal with three of her best friends and only two of them returned alive. Emma has built a new life for herself as Jane but she sudden;y starts receiving ominous messages and must figure out who is threatening her.
So the first thing you need to know about this book is that Emma's friends - Al, Daisy and Leanna - are literally THE WORST people in the world. They're all selfish and just idiotic. When the girls go to the camp in Nepal, it's immediately obvious something weird is going on and Emma knows it yet she just goes with it? I mean..WHY would you give your passports to someone you don't know? Why not just pay the money you would be paying anyway at the end and keep the passport. They are he most precious thing you have when abroad and I know I wouldn't be giving mine up to anyway when halfway up a fecking mountain away from normal civilisation.
There were a lot of times listening to this that I wanted to scream out loud in frustration at both Emma's actions and her friends and how they treated her. Daisy was suppose to be best friend and was literally the worst. I found it really odd how she could turn on Emma so suddenly and be sucked in by Isaac. Having recently read The Girls by Emma Cline which focuses on a cult in California in 1969, I can see how a cult leader can be written to be so charismatic and drawing that you get why people would worship and listen to him. Isaac wasn't like that - apart from being good-looking, he did just come across as being controlling and weird all the time. Not only did Emma stay after being sexually assaulted NOT ONCE BUT TWICE, she also stayed when she knew Isaac had literally locked away a girl and beaten her??? I would be down that mountain in a flash. The part after Emma was almost raped (which was really hard to listen to btw) and Daisy spread around the rumor that Emma had asked for it and was lying made me so mad - especially with what's going on right now with the Stanton rape case. UGH.
Emma's stupidity contInued even when she was Jane. She knew something was off aBout the new girl in the shelter yet she just continued on. WHY WHY WHY!Haven't you learned anything?
The ending was definitely weak and just seemed like such a let down.
To add on: The audiobook for this wasn't great for me either. The narrator put on a lot of strong accents which were not only annoying and distracting sometimes but slowed down her reading. She also made the one gay character, Al, sound really mannish which was unnecessary.