Breaking the Dark

Lisa Jewell has entered the Marvel Universe with Breaking the Dark featuring retired superhero, Jessica Jones. I am not a big Marvel movie watcher and had not heard of Jessica Jones prior to reading this book. But I am a Lisa Jewell fan and decided to give this book a read. It is engaging, intriguing, entertaining, and well written.

This book gives readers a glimpse into Jessica Jones life. She is no longer a superhero and lives a quiet life. She doesn’t like to draw attention to herself or to be noticed. Jessica Jones now works as a private detective who is presented with an interesting case. A distraught mother hires her to find out what happened to her children, who have recently come back from visiting their father in the UK. She claims that her children are not her ‘real’ children and have been replaced. The twin teens are behaving in a bizarre and strange fashion. Jessica is skeptical but soon begins to see where Amber, the mother of the teens in question, is coming from and begins her investigation….

This book soon takes a dark turn as Jessica makes her way to the UK and is introduced to some characters that readers are provided glimpses of at the beginning of the book. This book proved to be a fast read which kept me invested. This book did have a nice number of twists and suspense. It also gave readers a reluctant hero in Jessica and some other characters readers will want to boo and hiss at. While I enjoyed Breaking the Dark, I didn’t love it. I believe if I had known more about the character of Jessica Jones prior to reading this book, I might have enjoyed this book more than I did.

Well written, well thought out, and entertaining. This is the first book in a series of books which will be written by various authors.

Thank you to Hyperion Avenue and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.