Genre: Thriller
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The newspaper often highlights stories about the impossibly rich who seem to have everything they want. In The Girl From Home, Adam Mitzner introduces us to Jonathan Caine, a hedge fund operator who "wants what he wants," and he makes sure he gets it. His wife is beautiful, his penthouse is exquisite and his job exciting. He makes millions of dollars a year doing what he wants to do and is admired by all. Until it all comes tumbling down. In a short period of time he loses his job, his home and his wife. He decides to go visit his sick father and stay in his childhood home for a bit, and while at a 25 year class reunion, he runs into Jackie, the girl who was the object of his boyhood crush. She is a mother of two, who is caught in an abusive relationship with her husband, who threatens to kill her if she leaves him. Jonathan finds himself in a dangerous relationship with a woman who is as kind as she is beautiful.
Mitzner builds his story and his characters slowly, and the reader begins to feel part of this town and the people in it. It took me a little time to get into the rhythm of the book, because he spent the first third jumping back and forth between the present and the months that led up to it. Once I realized what he was doing though, I couldn't put it down. His ability to show his character's emotions kept me mesmerized. Jackie's feelings for Jonathan and fear of her husband were both strongly depicted, and Jonathan's character growth was interesting to watch develop. Mitzner does not present his protagonist as a warm and cuddly character, but the reader slowly begins to understand him.
There is definitely suspense in this book, as we watch Jackie's abusive husband become more terrifying and realize that both Jonathan and Jackie will do anything to stop his violent behavior. The tension builds, and Mitzner, once again, delivers a novel that keeps the reader anxiously turning pages until a satisfying conclusion.
- Beverly
Publisher - Gallery Books
Date of Publication - April 5, 2016
Mitzner builds his story and his characters slowly, and the reader begins to feel part of this town and the people in it. It took me a little time to get into the rhythm of the book, because he spent the first third jumping back and forth between the present and the months that led up to it. Once I realized what he was doing though, I couldn't put it down. His ability to show his character's emotions kept me mesmerized. Jackie's feelings for Jonathan and fear of her husband were both strongly depicted, and Jonathan's character growth was interesting to watch develop. Mitzner does not present his protagonist as a warm and cuddly character, but the reader slowly begins to understand him.
There is definitely suspense in this book, as we watch Jackie's abusive husband become more terrifying and realize that both Jonathan and Jackie will do anything to stop his violent behavior. The tension builds, and Mitzner, once again, delivers a novel that keeps the reader anxiously turning pages until a satisfying conclusion.
- Beverly
Publisher - Gallery Books
Date of Publication - April 5, 2016
