{"id":344,"date":"2024-09-12T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=344"},"modified":"2024-09-12T05:05:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T05:05:00","slug":"breaking-the-dark-by-lisa-jewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=344","title":{"rendered":"Breaking the Dark by Lisa Jewell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Breaking the Dark<\/strong> by Lisa Jewell<\/a>
on July 4, 2024
Genres:<\/strong> Fiction \/ Action & Adventure<\/a>, Fiction \/ Crime<\/a>, Fiction \/ Mystery & Detective \/ General<\/a>
Pages:<\/strong> 464
Format:<\/strong> Hardcover<\/a>
Buy on Amazon<\/a>
Goodreads<\/a> <\/p>\n

Meet Jessica Jones: Retired super hero, private investigator, loner. She tried her best to be a shiny spandex crimefighter, but that life only led to unspeakable trauma. Now she avoids that world altogether and works on surviving day-to-day in Hell\u2019s Kitchen, New York. The morning a distraught mother comes into her office, Jessica would prefer to nurse her hangover and try to forget last night\u2019s poor choices. But something about Amber Randall\u2019s story strikes a chord with her. Amber is adamant that something happened to her teenage twins while they were visiting their father in the UK. The twins don\u2019t act like themselves, and they now have flawless skin, have lost their distinctive tics and habits, and keep talking about a girl named Belle. Amber insists her children have been replaced by something horrible, something \u201cperfect.\u201d Traveling to a small village in the British countryside, Jessica meets the mysterious Belle, who lives a curiously isolated life in an old farmhouse with a strange woman who claims to be her guardian. Can this unworldly teenager really be responsible for the Randall twins\u2019 new personas? Why does the strange little village of Barton Wallop seem to harbor dark energies and mysteries in its tight-knit community? A mother\u2019s intuition is never wrong. And Jessica knows that nothing in life is perfect, not these kids, not her on-again, off-again relationship with Luke Cage, and certainly not Jessica herself. But even as she tries to buy into the idea that better days are ahead, Jessica Jones has seen all too clearly that behind every promise of perfection trails a dark, dangerous shadow.<\/p>\n

The first 30% of this book, I wasn\u2019t sure. I struggled to connect with it and I think I was looking for Lisa Jewell\u2019s usual style which seemed to be missing. Once I got over that and kind of tried to see the book for what it was I loved it. Was it a Lisa Jewell classic, no. Did I still have a great time, yes. The pacing was good and kept my attention. There was some parts that kind of lost me and went over my head. The ending wasn\u2019t anything spectacular or mind-blowing and was somewhat predicted from myself, but I wasn\u2019t mad it. Overall, I really enjoyed it and wouldn\u2019t be opposed to watching the tv adaptation.<\/p>\n

I gave this novel four stars. I ended up feeling like I still had a lot of questions that went unanswered or didn\u2019t understand. That being said, I do think the premise will be hit or miss with a lot of Lisa Jewell\u2019s regular readers, especially her older readers however props to Lisa Jewell for stepping out of her comfort zone!!<\/p>\n

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Breaking the Dark by Lisa Jewell on July 4, 2024 Genres: Fiction \/ Action & Adventure, Fiction \/ Crime, Fiction \/ Mystery & Detective \/ General Pages: 464 Format: Hardcover Buy on Amazon Goodreads Meet Jessica Jones: Retired super hero, private investigator, loner. She tried her best to be a shiny spandex crimefighter, but that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}