“Redemption” by Jack Jordan blew me away! It was the gift of action and emotion that just kept giving. I loved “Do No Harm” and “Conviction”, and I expected to equally enjoy “Redemption”. What I didn’t expect was for it to become my ultimate favourite book by this author so early into the book.

About The Book:

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.

My Thoughts:

The book starts with a fast pace very early on. We meet Evelyn and Tobias through their own POV’s and find out that they moved from the UK to the USA for a better life, but their son has died in a hit-and-run accident. In the first chapters, we see how they deal with their own grief and handle the loss as a couple. Or rather, how they’re failing at it. It’s a very sad scene, really. We get to see a very hurt, devastated couple, a shadow of the people they used to be, struggling to cope! We see them barely talking to each other. The writing, although sad, really highlights the details and makes you feel the grief with them as a reader.

We then find out that the killer has been out of prison for a month, and Evelyn has planned her next move. To find Aaron – and kill him. Tobias is vaguely aware of this plan, but doesn’t quite think Evelyn will actually do this. Rather, he really hopes she doesn’t. Very soon, he realises she’s very determined to go through with her plan, and he decides it’s time to stop her, even if it means losing her.

This is where the game of cat and mouse begins. They both grieve in different ways, and cannot see eye to eye. And now, they are both racing to find Aaron, one to save him, and the other to kill him. 

We also get the chance to meet Aaron through his own POV, and find out what he’s going through, and the guilt he carries for an accident he will never forget. 

As a whole, this book was gripping and I couldn’t put it down. It intrigued me from the very first chapter, and this feeling lasted until the very end. With so many twists and turns, and situations I didn’t expect to happen, it continued to surprise me. It also touched my soul deeply with the characters. I could feel for every single one of them, their intense pain. A gut-wrenching story about how one accident can change the course of so many people’s lives forever!

Favourite Quotes:

“Betrayal”, I say finally, sucking the joy out of the room. “It’s not the method that frightens me, but the intention.”

“I try to imagine how my life might have been without her, had we not crossed paths that day. Would we have met another way? Or would my life look completely different?”

“Life never fails to surprise me in moments like these. How one’s world can flip in an instant by simply crossing paths with another. The joy it can bring, the heartache.”

“Some people understand life better than others, don’t they? I don’t mean capitalism or politics or corruption, that sort of thing. They understand life in that they know how to live it: they know how to love, how to trust, how to get by relatively unscathed.”

“Last words – they’re infamous, aren’t they? I think about them a lot. People often say you should tell people you love them as much as you can, because you never know when the last time will be. When I part ways with people, their last words always linger as I wonder if they were the words they would have used if they knew they’d be their last.”

“Broken people can’t fix other broken people.”

“Every experience I’ve had as an adult has been with her, and the thought of stepping away, becoming my own person and not having her to turn to, doesn’t seem possible. And deep down, when I really think about it, I’m terrified that when I’m alone, I won’t like who I am without her.”

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