Welcome to my Sunday Book Review. I couldn’t wait to sink my eyes into Terry Tyler’s latest book in her Revenge series trilogy. Revenge can be sweet, but you may be taking yourself along for the ride – hence, Two Graves.
Blurb:
When you plan revenge, be sure to dig two graves
Two novellas. Two lives changed forever by the need for retribution.
The Torment of Frances Cullen
Frances loves married life. Her husband, her daughters and her beloved home, which she has made so many sacrifices to keep. She socialises with the wives-and-girlfriends mafia of the upmarket Edgehill Gated Community, even though she despises them. It’s what husband Jarvis requires of her.
Sadly, nothing she can do will stop the walls crumbling around her.
When the collapse begins, reason vanishes.
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The Content Creator
Jennifer was a journalist, back in the day. Twenty years ago, she presented a local TV show. Now she’s happily single, loving her work as a script editor, her busy social life and her daughter. She’s even friends with ex-husband Tony’s new girlfriend.
Then Tony switches partners yet again. The new lady on the block embodies everything Jennifer detests about new media.
Soon, her resentment of Sook Lee will become an obsession…
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My 5 Star Review:
This third book in Tyler’s Revenge series will keep you hooked in these two stories.
Revenge can be a deadly thing – sometimes with intent, sometimes it’s that last straw that hits on a mountain of other hurt – and sometimes, revenge may hit more than the intended target – I think they call that karma.
The Torment of Frances Cullen – Fran and Jarvis get married. Jarvis lives by the ‘plan’ – make money, build a business, and eventually move to the big times – the Edgehill gated community where the plastic housewives reside – not much different to all the Housewives series on TV. Except, Fran doesn’t fit in, despite doing everything Jarvis tells her to do – almost like a Stepford wife. The other housewives gossip behind her back about her awkwardness, while Jarvis keeps her in line – with his plans. But Jarvis is somewhat of a narcissist who makes sure his life is cushy at home while gallivanting with another woman, because he’s important now.
Fran only wants to love her husband and her daughters, she’s tired of being left out of her husband’s life, and when she learns of his evil plan to exile her, Fran has no choice but to retaliate – and retaliate she does! With an ending so unexpected, but appropriate. And sometimes when letting karma pay a visit, it just may take everyone with it.
In Content Creator – Jennifer is a longtime script editor married to TV exec, Tony. But Tony has other plans for his life, and that no longer includes Jennifer as he cements a new live-in relationship with the much younger, Youtube health guru, Sook.
As Jen’s life begins to unravel and her job is taken away, along with her teen daughter Lydia it seems, who is caught up in the awesomeness of the Youtuber health advisor, Sook. Jen feels she’s vying for her own daughter’s attention. Lydia is happier spending time with her dad and his girlfriend because she’s so cool. And when something major happens to Lydia and she doesn’t even bother telling her mother, but confides in Sook for advice instead, the arena of vengeance opens up with Jennifer.
Lydia confides something very personal about Sook to her mom, swearing her to secrecy – only, we all know stuff hits the fan eventually and gets out. Betraying her daughter by trying to whistle blow on Sook, opens up a whole Pandora’s box of who said what, and where karma eventually lands.
Two Graves is a great read, two stories about wounds in familial relationships and how the human condition processes the wounds and provokes retaliation.
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