📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚
BOOK: Jar of Hearts
AUTHOR: Jennifer Hillier
@jenniferhillierbooks
Publisher: Minotaur Books @minotaur_books
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐
Published: June 12, 2018
“Living a life that isn’t meant for you is its own version of hell.”
Review:
So in the video below I talk about how when I try to explain this book, it gets super complicated. And the more I think about it, I tend to agree. This is a story told in the past and present. To me the past was super interesting – the story of who inevitably murdered Georgina’s best friend Angela kept me reading.
And while the book itself is very intriguing, I found myself forgetting what was happening in the present. And while I didn’t totally guess the reveal, it was as satisfying as I wanted it to be. For me, I enjoyed Little Secrets so much. Jennifer Hillier is still an author I will be picking up and reading in the future, no matter what though.
You can see my video review here:
Small Summary:
This is the story of three best friends: one who was murdered, one who went to prison, and one who’s been searching for the truth all these years . . .
When she was sixteen years old, Angela Wong—one of the most popular girls in school—disappeared without a trace. Nobody ever suspected that her best friend, Georgina Shaw, now an executive and rising star at her Seattle pharmaceutical company, was involved in any way. Certainly not Kaiser Brody, who was close with both girls back in high school.
But fourteen years later, Angela Wong’s remains are discovered in the woods near Geo’s childhood home. And Kaiser—now a detective with Seattle PD—finally learns the truth: Angela was a victim of Calvin James. The same Calvin James who murdered at least three other women.
To the authorities, Calvin is a serial killer. But to Geo, he’s something else entirely. Back in high school, Calvin was Geo’s first love. Turbulent and often volatile, their relationship bordered on obsession from the moment they met right up until the night Angela was killed.
For fourteen years, Geo knew what happened to Angela and told no one. For fourteen years, she carried the secret of Angela’s death until Geo was arrested and sent to prison.
While everyone thinks they finally know the truth, there are dark secrets buried deep. And what happened that fateful night is more complex and more chilling than anyone really knows. Now the obsessive past catches up with the deadly present when new bodies begin to turn up, killed in the exact same manner as Angela Wong.
How far will someone go to bury her secrets and hide her grief? How long can you get away with a lie? How long can you live with it?
*****
All thoughts and opinions are my own.