The Good Son
Jacquelyn Mitchard
Reviewed by Helen
This is the first book I have read from this author and I did enjoy it, I fell into it from the start and it had me turning the pages, but there were times when I lost that pull to keep reading but I knew that I always needed to get to the end to find out what happened all those years ago when a young girl lost her life to her best friend and boyfriend. This is a compelling and intriguing story with strong characters and some twists.
Thea is waiting outside the prison to pick her young son Stefan up after he has served his time for the drug fueled murder of his girlfriend Belinda, she has never lost faith in Stefan who had always been a good son, never in trouble and that day all those years ago will never go away for Thea. Thea knows that life will not be the same but what happens is also not what she was thinking would.
Belinda’s mother Jill who was one of Thea’s very good friends has started a group to fight abuse against young people and there is a never ending group of protestors outside their home, this does not make life easy for Stefan to move on but he does the best he can and Thea is there by his side to help as is Stefan’s father Jep. But there are phone calls and a stalker that push Thea to think that there is more to what happened that night than has ever come out and she is not going to give up trying to find out the truth.
I picked this book up because I thought the blurb was so good and I really was not sorry I did, it did captivate me as it dug deep into the emotions of a mother and her son who had always been so good until he wasn’t but there was a lot that went on in Stefan’s young life there were things that Thea found out that changed her thinking and the ending was a real twist. There are a lot of characters that added a lot to this story family, friends and other people. This is a book that I would recommend even if at times it seems to be drawn out but it was a book that I needed to get to end.
My thanks to Harlequin AU for my copy to read and review.
Thea is waiting outside the prison to pick her young son Stefan up after he has served his time for the drug fueled murder of his girlfriend Belinda, she has never lost faith in Stefan who had always been a good son, never in trouble and that day all those years ago will never go away for Thea. Thea knows that life will not be the same but what happens is also not what she was thinking would.
Belinda’s mother Jill who was one of Thea’s very good friends has started a group to fight abuse against young people and there is a never ending group of protestors outside their home, this does not make life easy for Stefan to move on but he does the best he can and Thea is there by his side to help as is Stefan’s father Jep. But there are phone calls and a stalker that push Thea to think that there is more to what happened that night than has ever come out and she is not going to give up trying to find out the truth.
I picked this book up because I thought the blurb was so good and I really was not sorry I did, it did captivate me as it dug deep into the emotions of a mother and her son who had always been so good until he wasn’t but there was a lot that went on in Stefan’s young life there were things that Thea found out that changed her thinking and the ending was a real twist. There are a lot of characters that added a lot to this story family, friends and other people. This is a book that I would recommend even if at times it seems to be drawn out but it was a book that I needed to get to end.
My thanks to Harlequin AU for my copy to read and review.
4 stars
Published January 18th 2022 by MIRA
