The Revenge List : A Novel
Hannah Mary McKinnon
368 pages
MIRA
May 23, 2023
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ABOUT THE BOOK:
As a therapy exercise, a woman writes a list of people she wants to forgive, and thinks nothing of it when she loses it in an Uber…until one by one the people on the list become victims of freak accidents. Set in Portland, Maine, Hannah Mary McKinnon’s breakout suspense novel THE REVENGE LIST will appeal to fans of Lisa Unger, Joshilyn Jackson, and Tarryn Fisher.
Following an epic run-in with a client who threatened to pull out of a contract at her father’s company if she doesn’t suffer some consequences, Frankie Morgan agrees to go to anger management. With the business struggling with cash-flow and her brother needing help with the medical bills for his sick daughter, she can’t risk harming the business further. But that doesn’t mean she’ll be happy about attending.
During the first session, the group is asked to spend some quiet time exploring their pasts and sitting with the emotions that generates, before making a start on a Forgiveness List—a list of people with whom they’re angry and might work on forgiving. She begrudgingly goes along with it and doesn’t worry too much when she forgets the list in an Uber on her way home. It shouldn’t matter—it was just a therapy exercise—except a few days later the first person on that list is injured in a freak accident. When the second person gets hurt, she hopes it’s coincidence. After the third is targeted, she knows it’s a pattern. And she’s in trouble. Because the next name on that list is…hers.
My Review
I love when Hannah has a new novel out. They are always entertaining. In this installment we get a character, Frankie, that is very hard to like or root for. She has anger issues that are more than out of control. In her anger management class, she writes a list of all the people that have done her wrong that she needs to forgive. Then it appears someone is getting revenge for her as accidents happen to those on her list. Everyone Frankie encounters becomes a suspect to her.
While at no point did I like Frankie, she is a strong willed woman that knows what she wants. The more I read, the more I understood what made her what she is today. Some of her own doing and some were just part of a hard life. But it is hard to sympathize with her becuase she never learns from her mistakes. About halfway through I figured out who was “helping” Frankie get revenge, but as usual, there were still a few twists to come. The beginning and the ending were fast paced, but the story slowed down a little in the middle for me, but just when I started to lose interest in Frankie and her dilemma, the story went full steam ahead and pulled me back in.
Anyone loving suspense filled character driven stories, should pick this one up.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Hannah Mary McKinnon was born in the UK, grew up in Switzerland and moved to Canada in 2010. After a successful career in recruitment, she quit the corporate world in favor of writing. She now lives in Oakville, Ontario, with her husband and three sons, and is delighted by her twenty-second commute. Connect with her on Facebook, on Twitter @HannahMMcKinnon, and on Instagram @HannahMaryMcKinnon. For more, visit her website, www.hannahmarymckinnon.com.
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