This is the kind of book I like to read. I would put this
one into the legal thriller genre, though I’m never good at categorizing a
book.
Josh King was sent off to boarding school at least ten years
ago … at the hands of his stepfather, Tower Snow, who married Josh and Kinsey’s
mother after their own father’s death. Tower was what I would call the rich
fellow who got what he wanted, when he wanted, no matter who was hurt in the
process. Lauren (Josh and Kinsey’s mom) relished the lifestyle Tower provided
for her. In fact, it seemed Lauren yearned for that kind of lifestyle that Josh
and Kinsey’s father could not provide for her. I think she was “bored” with her
old lifestyle.
You know how ‘they’ say the first sentence of a book is
supposed to get a reader’s attention? This one certainly did.
“Lauren Snow stood over her dead husband, her trembling
right hand barely able to grip the gun.”
Anywho … Josh has returned home at the distressed call of
his sister Kinsey. On the one hand, he didn’t want to, on the other … Kinsey
was his sister and underneath it all, Lauren was still his mother. Thing is,
the more he learned about what really happened to Tower, the more he wanted to
re-distance himself from everyone other than Kinsey. Josh was led down some
very dark paths into the past that collided directly with his present. He
didn’t like the answers he found the more he traveled these paths, and the ultimate
truth? That was something he least expected.
I liked the fact that Josh has this big brother
protectiveness about his sister. I also liked the fact that Josh was forced to
deal with how he felt about his mother and what she did all those many years
ago. And the two-facedness of Lauren, that just added more ‘drama’ to this
tale. There is certainly an underlying sense of power in Tower’s character and
what he was allowed to get away with, as well as a sense of entitlement from
Lauren’s perspective.
