Quiet Lies

R.L. Griffin

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

2015

314 páginas

10h 28m

ISBN-10: 1518754775

I was broken before I met Sebastian Pryor, but he decimated me. I swept the ashes of myself into a pile that I kept safe for thirteen years. Believe me it wasn’t pretty, oh but people thought we were perfect. I hate myself most days. I hate that I feel for him as much as I loathe who I’ve become with him. This story is hard to hear. You know what the worst part is? You’ll see part of you in me. You’ll hate that. You won’t tell anyone.

My story is about cracks. A description or telling of how cracks in a marriage, a life, a personality, a heart and a mind begin and continue for years without anyone knowing. You don't always see what causes the fissure, but you feel it. Can you remember who you were before all of this started, before your life became a jumble of deceit, longing and regret?

This book isn’t for anyone who needs a happily ever after.

This book isn’t for anyone who needs a fun time out from their life.

This book isn’t for anyone, but me.

This is my story. I won’t apologize for it.

Resenhas (1)

5 (Perfeito)

Um dos melhores livros que li em 2015.
Infelizmente, nao tenho tempo de traduzir a resenha que fiz na epoca.
Aqui fica o registro mesmo assim.

This is one of those few books that when I am done with I don’t know how the hell to rate it.
Let me start with the bad first:
I am conscious that this was not my story to tell and I have to swallow it. Whatever.
I am also aware that I cannot have it always as I want.
That said, I still can have an opinion about it.
The story was sad and depressing, when I don’t know why, I was expecting a Romance: 1 Star
The good part:
The lady was being seriously abused by one of the biggest jerk /evil I had the *ahem* pleasure to come across. Not physically, I am talking about mental abuse. And he was so good at it that she was going slowly insane through the years.
Kudos for the author! She made me feel EVERYTHING. The sad and the depressing.
When an author is gifted with the ability to make me feel as I did here, losing the plot with a character as in together and not as a simple reader, well I have to give it all the praise: 5 Stars.

It is not the first time I am on a fence rating a book. What I normally have done is pure MATH: 1+5=6/2=3
Somehow, I don’t think this would be fair this time.
One thing is certain: I have been left with a hell of a book hangover!

Marco 2016 :
Review updated on 13/03/2016

I hardly review on Amazon. However, about four times a year I show my face there.
Quiet Lies was one of the books I should have left a review ages ago and so, I came over here for a lazy copy and paste.
It's funny how you can change your opinion about a story after awhile.
I think I've been unfair in my first review, specially after reading Behind Closed Doors
which reminded me so much of Quiet Lies.
I rushed to write a review when I should have waited to digest the story first.
Therefore, now, after four months I want to redeem myself and give this 5 Stars because the depressing part I mentioned in my first review is no longer on my mind.
The beauty of an incredible, clever and refreshing story is all I can remember.
It shook my emotional foundations in such a way that I, with the worst memory
ever in history, still remember it today.