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    The Safest Lies
    The Safest Lies
    The Safest Lies
    Audiobook8 hours

    The Safest Lies

    Written by Megan Miranda

    Narrated by Amanda Dolan

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Kelsey has lived most of her life in a shadow of suspicion, raised to see danger everywhere. Her mother hasn't set foot outside their front door in seventeen years, since she escaped from her kidnappers with nothing but her attacker's baby growing inside her-Kelsey.

    Kelsey knows she's supposed to keep a low profile and stay off the grid for their protection, but that plan is shattered when her dramatic car accident and rescue by volunteer firefighter and classmate Ryan Baker sparks media coverage.

    A few days later, she arrives home to find her mother missing. Now, to have a chance at a future, Kelsey will have to face her darkest fears. Because someone is coming for her. And the truth about the past may end up being the most dangerous thing of all.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJul 4, 2017
    ISBN9781541477476
    The Safest Lies
    Author

    Megan Miranda

    Megan Miranda is the New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls, The Perfect Stranger, The Last House Guest, which was a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick, The Girl from Widow Hills, Such a Quiet Place, The Last to Vanish, and The Only Survivors. She has also written several books for young adults. She grew up in New Jersey, graduated from MIT, and lives in North Carolina with her husband and two children. Follow @MeganLMiranda on Twitter and Instagram, @AuthorMeganMiranda on Facebook, or visit MeganMiranda.com.

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    • 5/5
      I didn’t pay attention that this was the young adults category, however it kept my attention! Love this author.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      A bit disappointed in the ending. I wanted a follow up chapter in like a year after everything...

      2 people found this helpful

    • 2/5
      I would have love to have been able to finish this book but I couldn’t get past the 2nd chapter without the Lord’s name being taken in vain. Can’t anyone write a good suspense book without this? ?‍♀️

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      It took me an eternity to finish this book, it turned into what sounded like a teenage drama. I regret wasting time on this book.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This is literally the best book I’ve ever read and I’ve read hundreds! Miranda keeps the reader in such high suspense that I felt every emotion of the characters. Truly a masterpiece of literature!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Interesting concept about a girl who is extremely sheltered because her mother was kidnapped and held captive as a teen, and escaped when she was pregnant. But the truth starts to unravel when the mom, who has never left the house, is missing.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Non stop intrigue! So much happens that u don’t see coming. Fast paced. Highly recommend.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      It started off good but the ending was predictable and boring. Narrator was great

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Completely binge worthy! Loved the book and how it holds your attention from the start. Definitely can't wait to listen /read more of this authors books.

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    • 5/5
      This was a brilliant story, power plot, complex characters and I couldn’t wait to hear the next chapter. Way to go!! Loved this

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    • 4/5
      I didn’t think this premise sounded very interesting but I like Megan Miranda so I gave it a try. I genuinely enjoyed it, more as a story than a “thriller” but it was very good
    • 4/5
      Good book. Not my favorite of hers. But still a good listen. This is the third book of hers I’ve listened too just this week. So, I am a fan of hers. On to the next!
    • 3/5
      This house is a fortress, that's what I have always known. Kelsey lives with her mother and from a young age has been taught how to survive. On her drive home from a tutoring session she swerved to miss hitting another car. When she regains consciousness she is dangling over a cliff and the cute boy she tutors is harnessed to her telling her not to panic. The story starts out with lots of action and ends with a satisfying conclusion. It feels like the middle as the secrets unfold and connect there is a bit too much repetition but I still enjoyed it. Great characters development and all characters that really tie the story together.
    • 4/5
      It was a well written book. Quick read/listen. The narrator did a great job at keeping pace with high intensity times.
    • 3/5
      Predictable and too unrealistic. The people in the story went through horrendous events yet just seem to shake it all off too easily.
    • 5/5
      One of the best audiobooks I’ve listened to. So much action. And the reader does such an amazing job!
    • 3/5
      Not my favorite of hers just because her books are usually a lot more realistic
    • 5/5
      Oldest published book by Megan that I've listen to. I normally listen to her books as background noise at work. This one I listen to while walking, cleaning, working and ignoring grown kid. My favorite!!! Got captured by the characters and wanted to know the whole story!!! Awesome book!!
    • 1/5
      Grade school writing, not enjoyable. Didn’t bother finishing reading it.
    • 5/5
      Good read! Kept my attention. Loved the narrator. I recommend
    • 5/5
      Lots of suspense. A teen romance. A well written book that I enjoyed thoroughly.
    • 3/5
      This book was so so. I wouldn’t say it was the worst I’ve read but it definitely wasn’t this author’s best work. A bit predictable, a bit slow, and overall just kind of ho-hum. Nothing great to say; nothing real negative to say.
    • 4/5
      Another first rate thriller from Megan Miranda with a good bit of teenage romance. The story deals with the emotion of fear, but it is a very visual read. The scenes are written so that you almost think you've seen a movie.
    • 5/5
      What about children of those various women kidnapped and then held in captivity until they are released or they escape. How do they deal with their mother's history or do they?

      This was a great plot and well told. It bordered on the melodrama and threatened to go into the i-don't-know-nothin-bout-birthin-no-babies mode of heroine as victim. But, ultimately it did not. I'm not sure, however, I'll race out and read any more of her novels.
    • 5/5
      I picked up this book because I had read 2 of Megan Miranda's psychological thrillers - All The Missing Girls and The Perfect Stranger. This novel, The Safest Lies, is actually a TEEN book, as the main characters are teenagers.
      Kelsey Thomas is used to living in a fortress. Her mother, Amanda, is agoraphobic because Amanda was kidnapped when she was 17. When Kelsey is in a car accident, things begin to change. Kelsey becomes involved with Ryan, a volunteer firefighter and student at her school, when he helps to rescue her. Kelsey takes a chance, and because of that chance, her home is no longer safe.
      Kelsey needs to rely on survival instincts that her mother has taught her over the years. Some of it is a bit fantastic, but it keeps the story moving at a breakneck pace.
      I enjoyed this, and I may check out some of Megan Miranda's earlier works as well as keeping up with her latest offerings.
      #MeganMiranda #TheSafestLies
    • 5/5
      Holy shit what a book! This was an intense mysterious thrill ride. Didn't know what was going to happen next. Didn't want to put it down.
    • 4/5
      At 17, Kelsey has been fiercely sheltered from the outside world by her agoraphobic mother, to the point that DCS became involved to ensure that Kelsey was adequately socialized within the community. While Kelsey was aware that her mother's agoraphobia stemmed from her own teenage abduction, she was unaware of the rest of her mother's secrets. When Kelsey's identity is released to the media due to her involvement in a car crash and, soon after, her mother disappears, Kelsey realizes that her mother's great precautions might not have been as unreasonable as they seemed.I enjoyed this fast-paced thriller and wondering who Kelsey should trust, as the suspense developed around their fortresssed home. A quick and exciting read, which made me a little paranoid and anxious when I read it at night....
    • 4/5
      17-year-old Kelsey has grown up in a fortress of sorts. Her mother, after being kidnapped & then escaping while pregnant (with Kelsey), relocates & lives in a house with extensive gates & alarms to protect both Kelsey and herself from the outside world. Kelsey's mother has not left the house since Kelsey's birth. Kelsey, homeschooled until only fairly recently, attends the local high school but her past is virtually unknown to her peers. When she is involved in a fairly high-profile automobile accident, she suddenly finds herself in the spotlight. Shortly after, her mother disappears from their home suddenly and unexpectedly, and Kelsey is left to figure out what happened, while in the meantime gradually discovering secrets she never knew existed.I didn't realize until after finishing this and reading some other reviews that this was a young adult novel. Despite many of the main characters being teens, it didn't particularly read like a young adult novel, but rather like a typical thriller. It was a quick and fast-paced read, one which I finished on audio in just a few days of commuting. Overall, I really enjoyed this one.
    • 4/5
      For seventeen years, Kelsey Thomas’s mother has sought refuge in her home; she hasn’t ventured outside since she escaped from kidnappers and she’s raised her daughter to see danger everywhere. Kelsey keeps a low profile, stays far away from social media; after years of homeschooling, she traded the security of her home for the relative freedom of the local high school. But an automobile accident places her squarely in the spotlight and, a few days later, she returns home to find all the alarms disabled, the gates and doors unlocked, and her mother missing. Can Kelsey unravel the secrets of the past before it’s too late? This Young Adult novel, focused for grades seven through ten, explores the consequences of years spent instilling a sense of fear in a child, of complicated safety rules, of always thinking ahead. While it might seem a bit over the top that a mother would raise her child in this way, the introspective nature of the story allows readers to understand Kelsey’s fears as well as her finely-honed-over-time ability to react in a way that will lead to safety.The characters are believable and fully drawn; having one of Kelsey’s classmates serve as a member of the volunteer fire department is a nice plot twist that highlights teens volunteering in their communities as it offers a nod of recognition to the many towns that count on volunteers to man their local fire departments. Over time, Kelsey has come to realize that sometimes a lie is the better answer and she occasionally chooses the safer lie over the reality. As the plot twists and turns, readers may find some predictable moments, but the web of “safe” lies and the truth that has endangered Kelsey’s life make for a tension-filled page-turner that readers will find hard to set aside.Recommended.