Breaking the Dark opening lines: Jessica turns onto her side and blinks into the darkness. The drapes are wide open, but the sky outside is so dark that they may as well be shut.
My blurb:
Is there such a thing as perfection? And can evil exist alongside it? These are two of the questions Jessica Jones will have to answer when tasked to find out what is wrong with two teenagers. Their mother can sense they are not the same people, and she knows that Jessica will be the correct person to discover why they have come back from their holiday different.
Breaking the Dark
Meet Jessica Jones: a private investigator and retired super hero based out of Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan, who goes from job to job as a hard living, rough talking, loner.
And then a wealthy Upper East Side woman pays her a visit. Amber Randall is concerned about her twin sixteen-year-olds, Lark and Fox, who have acted and looked very different since they returned from spending the summer with their British father in the UK. She tells Jessica that her children have unnaturally perfect skin for teenagers and have lost all the tics and habits that made them who they were. They are not Lark and Fox, she tells Jessica. Something has happened to them.To find out more, Jessica travels to Essex to talk to their father and once there meets Belle who is living a curiously isolated existence in a run-down farmhouse with her guardian Debra. Jessica knows that Lark and Fox had spent the summer with Belle—but can this unworldly teenager really be responsible for Lark and Fox’s new personas?Jessica soon discovers that, behind Belle and Debra, evil geniuses are playing a dangerous game with technology in order to make the world a “better place”, not caring who gets hurt, maimed or even killed in the process. Can Jessica stop them from wreaking destruction on a whole generation of young people? Nothing is certain in Lisa Jewell’s gripping and most imaginative novel yet.
My verdict:
I chose to read this book because I am a fan of Lisa Jewell. I am clueless when it comes to Marvel, but if any book would get me interested, this would be it! A well written story surrounding Jessica Jones, her real life, and the story of how evil can truly exist in the pursuit of perfection
About the Author:
Read an extract:
JESSICA TURNS ONTO HER SIDE and blinks into the darkness. The drapes are wide open, but the sky outside is so dark that they may as well be shut. It is not nighttime, but a storm is brewing over Hell’s Kitchen, black and bruised and heavy.
The clock by her bed tells her that it is one minute past nine.
Publishing information:
Penguin Random House South Africa sent me this novel to review.
See the links below for blog posts I published on August 18:
- 2021: Let’s Cook
- 2019: Where Is Peter Rabbit?
- 2017: Pickled Beetroot
- 2016: Mushroom Rolls
- 2014: Master Stock
- 2013: Liebster Award II
- 2012: Food Quiz Number 77 For A Friday
- 2011: Lime And Coriander Marinated Lamb Chops
- 2010: Pasta With Chorizo, Bacon, Red Peppers And Tomatoes
Don’t know about the author..but I am a fan of crime stories. Definitely gotta find the book in Kindle version. I have been reading Roy Grace series by Peter James…I bet you know him too.
I have read some of his books 🙂
Thanks for the review … I’ve ordered from my library
Let me know what you think after reading it 🙂
Marvel is a bit of a turn off for me.
It was not the main focus of the book, which helped!
I never read a book from Lisa Jewell, and picked up Breaking the Dark due to the Amazon preview for it interesting me and me being not only a Marvel fangirl but a major fan of Jessica Jones. Lisa Jewell did a brilliant job and it was almost as if she had created Jessica Jones and the ALIaS comic she debuted from herself. I especially love all the attention to detail on the ways Jessica isn’t a typical hero and how it’s both a flaw yet a great strength to her character as she nevertheless even if not doing it ideally tries to do the right thing in the end. I will definitely be reading Lisa Jewell’s original works in the future.
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