Title: JANE DOE
My Rating: all the stars! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Book Description:
Jane’s days at a Midwest insurance company are perfectly
ordinary. She blends in well, unremarkably pretty in her floral-print dresses
and extra efficient at her low-level job. She’s just the kind of woman middle
manager Steven Hepsworth likes—meek, insecure, and willing to defer to a man.
No one has any idea who Jane really is. Least of all Steven.
But plain Jane is hiding something. And Steven’s bringing out the worst in her.
Nothing can distract Jane from going straight for his heart: allowing herself to be seduced into Steven’s bed, to insinuate herself into his career and his family, and to expose all his dirty secrets. It’s time for Jane to dig out everything that matters to Steven. So she can take it all away.
Just as he did to her.
But plain Jane is hiding something. And Steven’s bringing out the worst in her.
Nothing can distract Jane from going straight for his heart: allowing herself to be seduced into Steven’s bed, to insinuate herself into his career and his family, and to expose all his dirty secrets. It’s time for Jane to dig out everything that matters to Steven. So she can take it all away.
Just as he did to her.
My musings:
Don’t you love it when a book sneaks up on you out of
nowhere and then dazzles you with its brilliance? JANE DOE was that type of
book for me. I unwittingly downloaded it on Audible on some daily or monthly
deal, really knowing nothing about it at all. It started off quite slowly, and
I was wondering if it was really for me. And then – BAM! Things start
happening. Suddenly I was so hooked that I sat in the driveway in the middle of
the night after coming home from work so I could listen just a little bit longer.
Jane is probably one of my favourite protagonists in crime
fiction - ever. She never tries to hide her own shortcomings, admitting from
the very start that she is a sociopath who does not subscribe to the same
morals and conventions the rest of us do. Which makes it a lot easier for her to
act out her perfect plan of revenge for the death of her best friend. Intrigued
yet? If you have ever dreamed of revenge, I bet it was tinged with a sense of
guilt the likes Jane would never submit to. In Jane’s world, it’s all about logic,
and no time is wasted on useless feelings. A wrong has been committed, and she
is setting out to put it right. An eye for an eye. Justice, old testament
style. And not only is Jane very driven, but she is also very smart. Note – if you
are going to piss someone off, don’t pick someone as clever and ruthless as
this woman!
To be honest, by the halfway mark I was ready to throttle
Steven myself with my own bare hands if Jane wasn’t getting a move on. I was
cheering for her the whole way. Does this make me a sociopath, too? I felt
similarly about the main character in John Marss’ THE GOOD SAMARITAN, except
that his character was seriously disturbed. Jane isn’t, not really. She is just
out to teach Steven a lesson, and she is planning to make it one he will never
forget.
I loved Jane. Not often have I encountered such an honest,
feisty, devious and smart protagonist. By the end of the story I was sad to see
her drift out of my life. I already missed her wicked sense of humour, her
sarcasm, her sense of justice. Characters like this don’t come around very
often!
Summary:
Has a book ever snuck up on you out of nowhere and landed
right smack bang on your favourites list? JANE DOE was that book for me! If you
want a thriller with a protagonist that stands out from the rest, go and pick
it up today!
The Good Samaritan, by John Marrs
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Sounds great! Adding it to my wishlist:)
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