Review: JILL

JILL by N.L. Greene
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

5 Star Review of the book Jill, by author N. L. Greene’s book.

This is the first time I’ve read anything by this author, and what a book to start with! It captured me by the end of chapter one to where I didn’t want to do anything but sit and read. The characters were just enough to move the story along, they were well developed, believable, depth, and they made you feel like they were real people.

I found this book by looking for a suspense/thriller book to read. When I saw the title I started laughing as it’s my name. After reading the synopsis I started laughing and had my husband read it. The joke between us that it was nice someone wrote a book about me! After starting the book I started to get a little worried because Jill’s best friend is Sami, my daughter’s name is Sami. When I told my husband that he gave me the weirdest look and said he might be getting a little worried for me to read this book. Thank goodness none of our other children or his name was in the book, so it was safe to say this book really wasn’t written about me.

I’m always interested in finding new author to read, and I’m so happy I read this book. There were twist and turns in it and not once did I see it coming. The story stayed on track, gave just enough background that didn’t take up half the chapter which I like. One thing I did like about this book was how the author had Jill deal with a tragedy that happened in her life. When we or someone we know loses someone unexpectedly to death, one never knows how the ones left behind will handle it. The author did a really good job of writing the way Jill dealt with the sudden passing of her father who was shot one night in the line of duty, as a police officer.

The spiral downward Jill starts to descend into after her only parent is killed. She goes into a deep depression, shutting out her best friend, until after she talks to her father’s attorney, although her father left her everything, she decides to sell the house. Once she starts packing up everything she finds a big folder that her dad had kept secret. Inside the folder is proof of a big prostitution ring and several names of the heavy hitters in it, including some of the police officers who worked with her dad. A Jill figure out her dad wasn’t just shot in a random investigation but someone actually murdered him for his knowledge of whom and what was happening.

Jill also finds out these guys were also involved in the murder of her mother. With both parents dead the only people she can truly call family is Tommy and Karen, her dad’s partner for the past 20 years, and her best friend Sami. There’s no way she can tell Tommy about this, she needs to keep him and Karen safe, and there’s no way she can tell Sami. Jill sets in motion a plan to take revenge on the people that did this to her parents, but she’s has to be very careful as not to get caught.

Once Jill starts her plan in motion, the twist and turns become so intriguing, the reader doesn’t want to put the book down, and will keep you on the edge of your seat. Once all this starts you can’t help but finish the book.


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