# Hardcover: 368 pages
# Publisher: Shaye Areheart Books (January 2, 2007)
# Language: English
Every fortnight I go to the library. I try to grab whatever book I can read. Actually I try to read atleast one book per day. There are no specific genre books I read. I read anything and everything that I can. If I don’t get anything to read I re-read the books that I enjoyed reading. I always believed that books are meant to be read more than once only then you will find something more. Every time I re read a book I find something interesting, which I didn’t realise the previous time when I read.
After reading Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger, I have always wanted to read Silver of Truth.
The story is a sequel to Lisa Unger’s first novel Beautiful Lies. Just in case you find this novel confusing, I suggest you read Beautiful Lies first. The narrator Ridley Jones speaks directly to her audience in a conversational style, as if she was writing her diary.
Silver of Truth is a very interesting fast-paced, with non-stop action that will increase adrenaline junkies, but frustrate those who prefer a cohesive narrative with a semblance of logic. Ridley in spite of being attractive and courageous woman behaves like a spoiled child than a mature adult.
The ending is full off far-fetched is filled with far-fetched twists and turns, although, to her credit, Unger avoids tying up every loose end with a neat bow. Is it possible that another sequel is in the way?
Synopsis
Recently, Ridley Jones stepped off a street corner and into an abyss of violence, deception, and fear. She is being a lot more careful about where she steps and trying to get on with her life when another seemingly mundane act- picking up a few envelopes of prints at a photo lab- puts Ridley at the nexus of a global network of crime. A shadowy figure of a man appears in almost every picture she’s taken in the last year, lurking just far enough away to make identification impossible. Everyone from the federal government to the criminal underworld wants to know who the man is- and where he is- and some people are willing to kill to find out.
Now the FBI is at her door, some serious bad guys are following her every move, and the family she once loved and relied on is more distant than ever. Ridley has never felt so confused or alone in her life. Everyone she loves has turned out to be a stranger- she even feels like a stranger to herself. Is she a product of nature or nurture?
At once hunting down a ghost and running for her life, Ridley doesn’t know if she ever had the power to shape her own destiny or if love exists anywhere beyond her imagination. The only thing Ridley knows for sure is that she has to get to the truth about herself and her past if she’s ever going to find her way home.
Charged with relentless intensity and kinetic action, playing out with unnerving suspense on the streets of New York and London, and seen through the terrified but determined eyes of a young woman whose body and heart are pushed to the point of shattering, Sliver of Truth is another triumph from the New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Lies.
About the Author
LISA UNGER is the author of Beautiful Lies, a New York Times bestseller and International Book-of-the-Month Selection. She lives in Florida with her husband and daughter.