
Liars' Paradox
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Narrated by:
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Jennifer O'Donnell
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By:
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Taylor Stevens
A master of international intrigue, New York Times best-selling author Taylor Stevens introduces a pair of wild cards into the global spy game - a brother and sister who were raised to deceive - and trained to kill....
They live in the shadows, Jack and Jill, feuding twins who can never stop running. From earliest memory, they've been taught to hide, to hunt, to survive. Their prowess is outdone only by Clare, who has always been mentor first and mother second. She trained them in the art of espionage, tested their skills in weaponry, surveillance, and sabotage, and sharpened their minds with nerve-racking psychological games. As they grew older, they came to question her motives, her methods - and her sanity....
Now 26 years old, the twins are trying to lead normal lives. But when Clare's off-the-grid safe house explodes and she goes missing, they're forced to believe the unthinkable: Their mother's paranoid delusions have been real all along.
To find her, they'll need to set aside their differences; to survive, they'll have to draw on every skill she's trained them to use. A twisted trail leads from the CIA, to the KGB, to an underground network of global assassins where hunters become the hunted. Everyone, it seems, wants them dead - and, for one of the twins, it's a threat that's frighteningly familiar and dangerously close to home....
Filled with explosive action, suspense, and powerful human drama, Liars' Paradox is world-class intrigue at its finest.
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fantastic
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Performance: I enjoyed the narration until the last couple of chapters. Her cadence and phrasing became noticeably repetitive. Pausing every 3-4 words and using the same tonal pattern was distracting, I still enjoyed the story very much.
Twins who kick ass
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If you love Tom Wood's Victor
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Subpar
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Pure adrenaline!
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True...Liars’ Paradox Is Good
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Summary:
Jack and Jill get mysterious calls from Clare (their mother, trainer, task master, etc). When they rush over to her off-the-grid house, it explodes. The trail weaves in and out as a oddball cat and mouse game where they’re not sure who to trust and what to believe.
Additional Comments:
- Characters 3.5/5: The characters are realistic in some senses and not in others. They’re also mostly annoying. The feuding and one-upmanship thing between Jack and Jill gets old. That makes it hard to like them. Holden’s okay. Clare’s complicated. Bad guy is suitably bad guy-y. I even liked Frank. Robert was just annoying too. Poor guy. Was kinda rooting for somebody to off him.
- Plot 4/5: Fun but it occasionally gets bogged down in history. It’s simple really. If you get rid of the flashbacks, I’m not sure this book would top 150 pages.
- Action 4.5/5: The fight scenes are well-described and thrilling.
- Closure 4/5: The way Clare chooses to end things with the bad guy is kinda awesome and makes her a heck of a lot more likable in my book. It’s definitely open for more. So, I guess if you want the whole family saga you’d have to read book 2 as well.
- Performance 4/5: Jennifer O’Donnell does a solid job with a performance. I played it faster than normal, so I’m not sure if all the male voices sounded fully distinct, but they were distinct enough.
- Unlike the Munroe series, the main characters don’t do much traveling in the present. In the past, sure, but not the present, so the reader misses out a bit on the authentic feel of unique culture immerse-ment that the Informationist had in spades. It’s been a while since I read a Taylor Steven’s book. Mostly, I listen to her podcast with Steve Campbell. She’d got a lot of great insights into the traditional publishing world.
- There are a LOT of flashbacks. Some are necessary, some probably not. It slowed things down quite a bit.
- Content Warnings: Pervasive swearing. Adult situations implied without being really described. Lots of violence.
- Favorite part: Clare’s solution.
- Cover is okay. A tad cheesy but fits the genre.
Conclusion:
A meandering, history filled, yet still satisfying action-packed thriller.
4/5 Stars Thriller
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Annoying narrator
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Family Thriller Meets Spy Intrigue
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The New Master of Modern Thrillers
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