Thank you MIRA, #partner, for the finished copy of The Revenge List in exchange for my honest review.
Publisher: MIRA
Published: May 23, 2023
Summary:
They say life flashes before your eyes when you’re about to die. But all she could see was regret.
The people in Frankie Morgan’s life say she’s angry. Emotionally stunted. Combative. But really, who can blame her? It’s hard being nice when your clients are insufferable, your next-door neighbor is a miserable woman and the cowardly driver who killed your mother is still out living it up somewhere.
Somehow, though, she finds herself at her very first anger-management group session—drinking terrible coffee and learning all about how “forgiveness is a process.”
One that starts with a list.
Frankie is skeptical. A list of everyone who’s wronged her in some way over the years? More paper, please. Still, she makes the pointless list—with her own name in a prominent spot—and promptly forgets about it…until it goes missing. And one by one, the people she’s named start getting hurt in freak accidents, each deadlier than the last.
Could it be coincidence giving her the revenge she never dared to seek…or something more sinister?
If Frankie doesn’t find out who’s behind it all, she might be next.
My thoughts:
I have been a fan of Hannah Mary McKinnon for a while now and just love her thrillers. They are so twisted and addicting and this latest one is no exception. I can always count on her to deliver a completely satisfying, entertaining story and this one definitely does!
This is another suspenseful, twisty domestic thriller that is so addicting you will be hard-pressed to put it down once you start reading it. I flew through it. I loved Frankie – she definitely was angry and a bit unhinged at times, but what a refreshing character she was. I haven’t seen a character like her in a while and that’s what I love about Hannah Mary McKinnon’s books. She always gives us such unique characters and even if they frustrate you – and let me just say, Frankie definitely frustrated me a time or two – I just couldn’t get enough of her!
I’m love family dramas and this one definitely got to me. There is a lot going on here that Frankie needs to deal with – her anger issues, family issues, work issues – it really makes for a well-balanced domestic suspense novel and there were so many times I questioned who was behind the supposed accidents because of course our devious author made it so that it could have been any one of the characters we had met…she’s quite tricky that way. But I also loved that all the characters we meet are so complex, which gives them reason for being behind everything. Even Frankie herself is quite the complex, layered character and the more we learned about her, the more complicated she became.
I love a good revenge story and this one was so clever. The twists and turns it takes really kept me guessing and I found myself on edge the entire time. This is definitely a book to add to your summer reading list. It’s one that you will be able to fly through in a matter of hours and easily be entertained – exactly my kind of summer reading! I highly recommend!
