It’s Jack Jordan Blogathon time again! Today we’re featuring My Girl which was originally published in 2016, Jack’s second book after Anything For Her.
Blurb:
Paige Dawson: the mother of a murdered child and wife to a dead man.
She has nothing left to live for… until she finds her husband’s handgun hidden in their house.
Why did Ryan need a gun? What did he know about their daughter’s death?
Desperate for the truth, Paige begins to unearth her husband’s secrets.
But she has no idea who she is up against, or that her life isn’t hers to gamble – she belongs to me.
My Review:
This one had me absolutely riveted! I literally could not put it down, and it was a really quick read for me. It’s perfectly paced with plenty of twists to keep you guessing!
Paige is having serious difficulties dealing with the hand that life has dealt her: the loss of her teenage daughter 10 years ago, and the more recent suicide of her husband. She’s seriously lost her way, finding solace in alcohol and pills and with no light at the end of a very dark, endless tunnel. I honestly felt so desperately sad for her, but was even sadder was that she didn’t seem to have anyone in her corner – no friends and the only family she did have, she just kept pushing further and further away with her volatile behaviour.
But then, through her somewhat fuzzy haze of what she perceives daily life, Paige realizes that something’s not right and that there are a lot of strange things going on. Those around her try to put it down to her erratic habits but she knows that something more sinister is happening and she’s determined to find out what it is. No matter what she does though, she always lands up being thwarted in her attempts to either straighten out her life, or get to the bottom of whatever it is that she’s sure is going on.
I’m not going to give anything away. Suffice to say, I didn’t see the twist coming, and had to re-read it a number of times before it actually sank in! Yes, this is a thriller, but it’s also a story about obsession, delusion and ultimately … love, in a variety of forms, some that we never even dare to imagine. It’s dark, in a way that I’m starting to see is quite unique to Jack Jordan – he doesn’t shy away from diving into the very depths of depravity when other authors might only be willing to dance along the edges of it, but he knows how to clamber out of it too, and this is what makes him an author who is extremely gifted at his craft!
Thank you to Compulsive Readers for the Blogathon. We continue on 10 November, so watch this space. Follow these Bookstagrammers to see what they have to say about My Girl …
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