Title: Redemption

Author: Jack Jordan

Genre: Thriller

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Publication Date: 20th June 2024

Rating: 5/5

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Summary:

Aaron Alexander has just been released from jail after serving eleven years for causing the death of Joshua Moore in a hit-and-run. Now a free man, all he wants to do is stay on the straight and narrow and leave his troubled past behind him.

But for Joshua’s mother Evelyn, eleven years in jail isn’t nearly enough. Consumed by grief and rage, she has been waiting for Aaron’s release, counting down the days until she can exact the revenge he deserves. And now that time has come.

But as Evelyn and her husband Tobias embark on a road trip to track Aaron down, they find themselves caught on two different sides of a gripping game of cat-and-mouse. Because Tobias knows what Evelyn is planning, and he will do anything to save her from herself.
Even if it means protecting the man who killed their son.

Locked in a collision course set in motion eleven years ago, Aaron, Evelyn and Tobias are about to find out whether the road they have chosen leads to redemption . . . or to retribution.

Review:

I’ve loved all of Jack Jordan’s books that I’ve read so my expectations for Redemption were sky high. Miraculously, those expectations have actually been exceeded. Redemption is brutal, intense, heartbreaking and completely gripping from beginning to end. It is also, in my view, Jordan’s best book yet. I really cannot recommend it highly enough to anyone who loves thrillers that rip out your heart and have you on the edge of your seat all the way through.

As we meet Evelyn and Tobias at the beginning of the book, both utterly lost in the painful black hole that is the grief for their son, and distanced from each other because of it, it is difficult to imagine having a sense of empathy for his killer. Yet, Jordan manages to craft characters like Aaron that make it impossible not to feel for them. The three central characters of Evelyn, Tobias and Aaron are all caught in a kind of race to an end which ratchets up the tension with heart-stopping intensity until they finally have to face each other, and themselves. Redemption is easily one of my books of the year and I urge you to read it as soon as you can get your hands on it. It is an emotionally charged story of a reckoning and of the overwhelmingly hopeless landscape of grief and loss. Just excellent.

★★★★★

Thank you so much to Anne Cater of Random Things Blog Tours for inviting me on this tour and organising it. I kindly received a copy of the book from the publisher. My review is entirely my own honest opinion.

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