Someone Like Me
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Someone Like Me
Narrated by:
Robin Miles
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M. R. Carey
About this listen
From the author of the million-copy best-selling The Girl with All the Gifts comes an extraordinary new psychological thriller with a twist you won't see coming....
There are two sides to every story....
Liz Kendall wouldn't hurt a fly. Even when times get tough, she's devoted to bringing up her kids in a loving home. But there's another side to Liz, one that's dark and malicious. An alter ego that will do anything to get her way - no matter how extreme. And when this other side of her takes control, the consequences are devastating.
Someone Like Me is the intoxicating new thriller from the phenomenal M. R. Carey. A modern take on the Jekyll and Hyde tale, think Gone Girl meets Stephen King - but you won't have heard anything quite like this before....
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Critic reviews
"Spectacular!" (Martina Cole)
"An intense, haunting thriller with heart. You will not want to put this down." (Laini Taylor, New York Times best-selling author)
"As fresh as it is terrifying...a jewel." (Joss Whedon)
I did take a little time to get into this one, but was glad I stuck with it. The narrator took a bit of getting used to.
great characters. As always with M R Carey the story line is gripping & pure escapism.
Another clever story....
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Inflection was off key and her interpretation of characters was very poor. it actually detracted from a good story. I would not listen to a book read by Robin Miles again for this fact.
Great story, poorly read
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Shortly before half way the action heats up. On my part, some preconceived ideas I had regarding Liz/Beth and Fran/Fox alter egos was blown away and the story got interesting. It had quite a dark turn that left me a little stunned for a while even.
My only bug bear was with the ending. Originally I thought that I couldn't give higher than three stars overall, due to this problem, but I re-read the last few chapters and have softened to four. Not to give away too much, but it was a little too "Halloween" ish for me. Yes, if it had seemed easy for the "good" guys to win, it would have been dull. Yes, no-one in this universe is an expert on how the alter ego thing work and what rules are in play. Yet for me, there was a little too much of those that did know, not telling those that didn't, because if they knew, it could all be fixed faster. Also a little too many false endings. When exactly is an alter ego beaten. Even now, I'm not sure it's over. It would be entirely possible for Carey to write a new rule and Spring something on us.
The most satisfying books of this kind give you all the information and rules early on and then produce a clever twist that you didn't see coming. There was one little twist here, but it wasn't powerful enough for me to redeem the ending.
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Another gripe if I'm on a roll here, would be with the aftermath. Much of the book is involved with Beth's situation getting worse and worse. The tension is generated because *spoilers* we assume it will be ok for Liz at some stage, and we don't want Beth blowing everything for her. Yet, once things are resolved, all the issues just fall away. No problem nothing to see here. So, all that tension for much of the book was rubbish then?
I disagree with some other reviews that the narration was poor. I enjoyed it and I think any more grandiose acting would have detracted. The differences in the characters were sometimes subtle and I liked that.
Unusual Sliding Doors story with a difference.
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Besides Liz and Beth, the other main character is Fran, a teenage girl and friend of Liz’s son. Fran has an imaginary friend only she can see, a fox-like creature named the Lady Jinx, who has sworn to protect her from everything and everyone. But how imaginary is Jinx, if Beth can see her?
This is not a quick read / listen. The Audible narration is more than 17 hours. I have to say, usually audiobooks of that length start boring me, I feel myself getting tired of the narrator’s voice and I start speeding up the narration to reach the ending more quickly. However, with this one, I could have listened for another 17 hours and not get bored. The narrator (female, American accent) did one hell of a job, moulding her voice to fit all characters, making it gravelly, warm, snide, young or old, even adapting a lisp to impersonate the Lady Jinx. Regardless of the narration, I was so completely absorbed by the story itself, that even with a lesser narrator, I would not have wanted this story to end.
Someone Like Me is really rather insidious. It sneaks up on you from behind, you never see it coming but it does, until at one point you realise you’re completely obsessed by it and you catch yourself thinking about it at every turn, wondering what Beth is up to, wondering how Fran is doing. I simply adored that mix of thriller, mystery and paranormal shenanigans.
Highly recommended, especially if you loved the supernatural element in Sarah Pinborough’s Behind Her Eyes.
Highly recommended
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There was a point at which I wanted to quit, but it drew me back again. Glad I stuck with it. The characterisation is fantastic, just like his other books.
Enjoy
Unusual
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