Description:
A double life with a single purpose: revenge. Jane's days at
a Midwest insurance company are perfectly ordinary. She blends in well,
unremarkably pretty in her floral-print dresses and extra efficient at her
low-level job. She's just the kind of woman middle manager Steven Hepsworth
likes—meek, insecure, and willing to defer to a man. No one has any idea who
Jane really is. Least of all Steven. But plain Jane is hiding something.
And Steven's bringing out the worst in her. Nothing can distract Jane from
going straight for his heart: allowing herself to be seduced into Steven's bed,
to insinuate herself into his career and his family, and to expose all his
dirty secrets. It's time for Jane to dig out everything that matters to Steven.
So she can take it all away. Just as he did to her.
Review: 4 stars
This is
a very easy to read book. It dives right in and is interesting yet
uncomplicated. The writing is smooth and there are some great 'one liners'
sprinkled all through the book. It's a straight forward revenge tale and the
author does justice to it.
Steven
is a predictable misogynistic idiot and that makes him easy to hate. But
Jane..oh Jane, there aren't enough adjectives in the world to describe
her.
She is
as self-aware as anyone can hope to be, knows her strengths and is willing to
go great lengths for her near and dear ones. Her tone is sarcastic all through
out and she is a highly believable character. She is smart, sexy, devious,
wicked, and extremely reliable. Sociopath or not, she is the kind of friend
everyone should have in their life!
I love
that we never find out Jane's real name and I enjoyed reading her self-diagnosis.
She is flawed but still you will root for her. She reminded me a lot of Dr
House from the TV show House...he too was flawed but you loved him for
everything that he was! Victoria Helen Stone has created a character here who I
don't want to let go of. If there is another book with Jane in it, I will
devour it. It doesn't even have to be a sequel...just another plot with Jane as
the central character.
It was
a delicious tale of revenge and I was very glad to see that this was not a
complicated, twisty tale with unreliable narrators. It's just proves that a
good author can spin a wonderfully captivating devious tale without
creating confusion, without all the smoke and mirrors that most thrillers these
days have. Reading this book is time well spent
