A Broken Jewel by Lucy RainsMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Genetic Experiments and Evil Mothers
I’d not come across this author before this week when someone recommended this series on a group I belong to. After reading the blurb I was happy to download the book. It more than met my expectations.
It’s Jade’s birthday and her mother hasn’t come home again. She’s a respected scientist who travels the world and leaves her daughter at home with only the supervision of a house manager. Her mother is undemonstrative, unkind, absent even when physically present, strict and incredibly demanding. Jade constantly strives for her approval and yet she never gets it.
Jade’s mother keeps her isolated so she lives an incredibly lonely life with only two real friends and even they are not aware of Jade’s life outside of school. Jade has plans to escape her mother’s control but it’s going to take some time. Then she meets two young men who try to convince her to leave with them before she’s ready. She doesn’t trust them or understand their need to get her away from her mother so urgently, until things come to a head and she has no more room to put off making decisions.
For an 18 year old, Jade was pretty mature. She was intelligent, patient and determined. Then when she met the guys she became a bit hormonal teenager with rage issues. Normally I’d be put off by that, but it was obvious from the direction of the plot that were reasons for her behaviour, it just wasn’t obvious when it occurred.
This story really draws you in. It starts off quite ordinary and slowly drop by drop the intrigue builds and you become more and more captivated by the secrets that start to be revealed. It’s a fascinating book and I can’t wait to read the next in the series because the ending raised a whole lot of new questions just as a few are answered.
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