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Online Book Club: "Hunt's writing ability is phenominal"

Online Book Club gives The Museum of Lies "five out of five stars" and says "Hunt’s writing ability is phenomenal. His writing is so inviting, witty, and well-written that I could feel every emotion that Cary felt. Being able to make your readers feel the emotions of your fictional characters is a gift." "Once I passed the halfway point of the book, I couldn’t put it down. After each memory of Cary’s ended, I had to keep reading to find out what happened to him. His childhood was so tragic and horrible (and somehow sprinkled with little bits of good luck—like writing a poem at 15 that gets picked up by a famous singer) that I couldn’t stop reading until I knew the ending." "I highly recommend this book to those who like funny, engaging stories that are, in essence, just very well-written." Read the full review here:  https://forums.onlinebookclub.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=708117 AVAILABLE NOW IN PAPERBACK, KINDLE & KOBO! CANADA --  https:...

Bestsellers World: The Museum of Lies is "Terrific. Engaging."

Bestsellers World calls The Museum of Lies "an enjoyable (if somewhat unsettling) read that will leave you thinking back on your own life and wondering what about your existence you can prove." "The character work in The Museum of Lies is terrific. Hunt does a beautiful job of portraying Cary as a profoundly troubled man who is constantly looking to fix himself and is never satisfied with the results. He shows Cary at various points in his youth enduring significantly damaging forms of abuse and humiliation. While the severity of these traumas varies greatly, we see how even comparatively minor embarrassments can take their toll and contribute to the mental breakdown of a bright and promising child." "The Museum of Lies is a quick read that is portrayed more as a collection of vignettes with a common theme than a standard novel. The non-linear storytelling spanning decades is engaging as the reader is constantly bouncing back and forth between cause and effect...

Kirkus Reviews: "A masterful storyteller"

Kirkus Reviews calls The Museum of Lies "A funny, dark, and deeply human novel about what shapes us as human beings. "Leaping back and forth between childhood traumas and the yo-yo dieting and personal humiliations of his adulthood, Hunt’s novel follows Cary’s unlikely journey toward self-understanding via recovered memory therapy—though whether the memories he ends up recovering are true (and what they might mean for his sense of himself) is not so cut and dried. The writing is as psychologically acute as it is funny ..." "Hunt is a masterful storyteller, escalating his protagonist’s misadventures to the point of farcical truth. Cary feels just responsible enough for his predicaments to make him a compellingly tragic figure, someone whose larger-than-life problems feel both real and searingly relevant to the reader." Read the full review here: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/j-timothy-hunt/the-museum-of-lies/ AVAILABLE NOW IN PAPERBACK, KINDLE &...

Latest novel: "The Museum of Lies"

 My latest novel, The Museum of Lies , has just been released!  Cary Scott's reminiscence of a life filled with unbelievable bouts of good fortune mixed with episodes of soul-crushing physical and emotional abuse is placed in doubt after his therapist is accused in the media of implanting false memories in patients. ISBN 978-1-915785-43-5 AVAILABLE NOW IN PAPERBACK, KINDLE & KOBO! CANADA --  https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/the-museum-of-lies/9781915785435.html USA --  https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-museum-of-lies-j-timothy-hunt/1146824031 USA -- https://www.amazon.com/Museum-Lies-J-Timothy-Hunt/dp/191578543X UK --  https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-museum-of-lies/j-timothy-hunt/9781915785435