This review is written with thanks to the publisher for my copy of Redemption via Netgalley.

Blurb:

Aaron Alexander has just been released from jail after serving eleven years for causing the death of Joshua Moore in a hit-and-run. Now a free man, all he wants to do is stay on the straight and narrow and leave his troubled past behind him.
But for Joshua’s mother Evelyn, eleven years in jail isn’t nearly enough. Consumed by grief and rage, she has been waiting for Aaron’s release, counting down the days until she can exact the revenge he deserves. And now that time has come.
But as Evelyn and her husband Tobias embark on a road trip to track Aaron down, they find themselves caught on two different sides of a gripping game of cat-and-mouse. Because Tobias knows what Evelyn is planning, and he will do anything to save her from herself.
Even if it means protecting the man who killed their son.

Locked in a collision course set in motion eleven years ago, Aaron, Evelyn and Tobias are about to find out whether the road they have chosen leads to redemption . . . or to retribution.

Review:

Oh my! What a rollercoaster ride! I read Redemption in a day as I found it so unbelievably compelling. Jack Jordan is an amazing writer and every word of this novel is so visceral that I felt the toxicity and tension between the characters straight away; I was grimacing in pain because I could feel the characters’ pain myself and I was deeply affected by the grief that permeates the whole novel. The effect of this is increased by the physical landscape and the threat of forest fires which makes the whole story feel really claustrophobic.

Redemption is narrated by the three main characters: Tobias, Evelyn and Aaron. They each have very different roles in the story and this approach helped me to get to know them all better. Jack Jordan is a master of the moral dilemma, and for most of this novel, I had no idea whose side I was supposed to be on – and it changed on a regular basis! 

I read a lot of novels, and for most of them, I have a rough idea what direction they might go in, even if I don’t guess every twist. With Redemption, i had absolutely no idea at all how the story would end. It is so well plotted and there are so many twists and turns that I just had to keep reading. It’s fast paced and the action is absolutely relentless!

I found the ending of Redemption particularly powerful and I felt it was a really fitting way for the story to conclude.

I can’t wait to see what Jack Jordan comes up with next!

Redemption is available from Amazon.