Book #42 Unconscious Lies by D. W. Brown

I won Unconscious Lies from goodread's First Reads program! Very thankful for that.

This is the story of Peter. Peter was in a coma for quite some time. He has moments of consciousness while in this coma, he is in his bedroom and surrounded by people who refuse to acknowledge him or answer his questions. Furthermore he remembers talking to a group of people while being unconscious.

When Peter awakes from the coma for good he does not remember his past and must take his wife's word on everything. Soon he discovers she has been lying to him, so much so that even her place of work doesn't even exist.

Worst of all? Peter remembers killing people while in the coma and clues start to surface in his new life hinting at the reality of these crimes.

Overall I really liked this book. I thought the story line was great and different. Unlike a lot of books, Unconscious Lies was not very predictable and had surprises up until the very end. To me there were some holes in the story but it is such a ride they are easy to overlook.

I did however have two minor issues (and one major) and they were editing and rambling.

The editing was pretty spotty in the beginning and in the last third either the editor checked out completely or got too engrossed in the story to continue editing (lots of "me" and "I" mistakes there).

Rambling. In two parts of the story I felt I was conducting a google search. The author went into too much detail explain what microbursts are and the history of studying comatose patients. You do not need to know any of this information to enjoy the story being told.

And last but most important: the anti-gay marriage rambling at the end of chapter 16. Honestly I almost stopped reading right there. I understand we all have different opinions on this subject so being that this "character" feels vastly different than I do is not the issue at all. My issue is the fact that this commentary comes completely out of left field and has absolutely no reason to be in the book leaving me wondering if this is just the author injecting his own feelings through the main character, Peter. Peter and his wife are discussing a very, very minor character referred to as "gay Marcus". The wife Vicky states that she believe marriage is for men and women only and Peter goes on and on in his narrative about homosexuality being a choice and gay marriage leading to marriage between cousins (btw cousin marriage is legal in 26 states and has been since before gay marriage was even an issue) which will open the floodgates on marriage. Completely unnecessary but it was only a page or two so it didn't totally ruin the book for me.