Publisher: Avon
Knives Out and Ocean’s 8 meets The Nest in this hilariously twisty novel by award-winning author HelenKay Dimon, about a woman who returns home from prison to her dysfunctional con artist family and tries to get them to go legit.
One day a con man met an heiress, wooed her, married her, had two kids…and kept on conning. Jillian Moorewood is the oldest child from that meet-cute-gone-wrong marriage. The stable one. The sensible and dependable one. The one who protects and fixes. The one who went to prison to save their sorry butts. Now, thirty-nine months later, she’s out and she’s more than a little pissed.
Finally home she finds the scheming clan in full family fleecing mode. They all claim they didn’t really agree to Jillian’s previous go-legit-or-else ultimatum before she went away. They viewed it as a “suggestion” then ignored it. So, business as usual. But Jillian is done with the lies and fakery. She demands the whole messed-up crew clean up its act, and this time she’s not kidding—she has the leverage to make it happen.
Problem is, her life is in shambles, but with the help of a great aunt (crooked but loveable), a bodyguard (who is a nice surprise after three years in prison), and a few allies (all working undercover), Jillian starts to put her life back together. She kicks out a few mooching relatives living under her roof, sets limits on everyone’s access to the money, ducks from their various attacks, and sees if that bodyguard is maybe interested in sticking around for a while. For the first time, she’s Jillian Moorewood, her own woman, and she’s ready to figure out who she is.
Firstly thank you to Random Things Book Tours, Helenkay Dimon and Avon for having me on this tour and for sending me a copy of the book to review.
There were so many things about this book that I enjoyed. The family dynamics for one, I loved all the backstabbing, plotting and trying to outsmart each other. The fact that everyone had two separate agendas, one they sure as heck let everyone know about and the other kept very close to their chests. All the undercover family members working different angles and playing different hands at different times was like watching a game of chess, everything was perfectly planned. I loved the Moorewood family rules at the beginning of each chapter, some even made me laugh out loud, though Jillian's final rule is the best one. I did not expect who dobbed Jillian in to be who it was! I was fully expecting any other member of the family but them, so that took me by surprise. I loved the banter between Jillian and Beck, it flowed so well and it was a nice interlude between family plotting sessions.
Its a really well-written book, with clever characters that makes it something you don't want to put down(I was up til 2am finishing reading it because I didn't want to put it down)
It's a perfect summer read so if you looking for something to take with you on holiday this year, this is the book to take!
Krystina xx
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