Sliver of Truth
A Novel
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4.0 • 129 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
The highly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Beautiful Lies.
Charged with relentless intensity and kinetic action, and playing out with unnerving suspense on the streets of New York and London, Sliver of Truth delves deep into the shadowy world of Ridley Jones, a terrified but determined young woman at once hunting down a ghost from her past and running for her life.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestseller Unger's sensational second thriller (after Beautiful Lies) puts her in the same league as such genre masters as Peter Straub and Peter Abrahams. From the cryptic opening section, which ends with a New York Times reporter finding her husband bleeding to death, Unger grabs the reader by the throat and doesn't let go. Meanwhile, the FBI informs Ridley Jones, a magazine writer, that her late uncle, Max Smiley (who's really her biological father), is still alive and being sought by assorted international players on all sides of the law. Rapidly finding that little in her life is what it seems, Jones is horrified to be confronted with evidence indicating that Smiley is a misogynistic monster of the first order, who may have played a role in the murder of the reporter's husband. Unger's gifts for dialogue and pacing set this far above the standard novel of suspense and will leave many anxiously awaiting her third book. 10-city author tour.
Customer Reviews
Action packed
I really liked the follow up to Beautiful Lies and the many twists and turns throughout the story. There was one major hole in the story, Jake bonding with his “real mom” in Beautiful Lies. Overlooking that, this story is fantastic.
One of the worst books I’ve ever actually finished
Such a disappointment after its much better, better-written prequel. Utter waste of time. Story is contrived and overwrought. The central mystery was interesting enough to keep me reading, hoping there’d be an interesting resolution. No such luck. The protagonist narrator keeps “breaking the fourth wall,” addressing the reader directly. What’s at first an effective way of making a special point rapidly becomes tedious and cliched.
The Author Has Better Stuff Out There
Much prefer _Confessions on the 7:45_, and _Heartbroken_ was pretty good, too. In this book, the narrator is a little too glib for me, though she’s certainly less perky than book 1. The narrative choice to have Ridley talk, occasionally, to her reader makes me wonder what the schtick is: is Ridley talking to an agent? Writing her memoir? A diary? A posthumous letter (and she hasn’t died yet?)? Who is the second-person she addresses? I also think the bed jumping is a little cliché and hard to take seriously. The character claims there is a lot of truth in love-making, but both men prove to be more than they say, and it’s safer to say that sex before really knowing a person just muddies the waters of rationality needed for making good relationship choices.