Knives Out and Ocean’s 8 meets The Nest in this hilariously twisty novel by award-winning author HelenKay Dimon, about a woman who returns home from prison to her dysfunctional con artist family and tries to get them to go legit.
One day a con man met an heiress, wooed her, married her, had two kids…and kept on conning. Jillian Moorewood is the oldest child from that meet-cute-gone-wrong marriage. The stable one. The sensible and dependable one. The one who protects and fixes. The one who went to prison to save their sorry butts. Now, thirty-nine months later, she’s out and she’s more than a little pissed.
Finally home she finds the scheming clan in full family fleecing mode. They all claim they didn’t really agree to Jillian’s previous go-legit-or-else ultimatum before she went away. They viewed it as a “suggestion” then ignored it. So, business as usual. But Jillian is done with the lies and fakery. She demands the whole messed-up crew clean up its act, and this time she’s not kidding—she has the leverage to make it happen.
Problem is, her life is in shambles, but with the help of a great aunt (crooked but loveable), a bodyguard (who is a nice surprise after three years in prison), and a few allies (all working undercover), Jillian starts to put her life back together. She kicks out a few mooching relatives living under her roof, sets limits on everyone’s access to the money, ducks from their various attacks, and sees if that bodyguard is maybe interested in sticking around for a while. For the first time, she’s Jillian Moorewood, her own woman, and she’s ready to figure out who she is.
Ale
20/4/2024
I don't know 'bout the Nest, but the two other movies this book was compared to have nothing in common with this story at all, IMO. This isn't a mystery book, and it doesn't read as a thriller either if you ask me. What it is though, is a family drama/humor book. Once you assimilate this book was falsely marketed, it starts being fun to read, or in this case, listen to the Morewood family shenanigans. Having said that, I was expecting more. There wasn't a clímax to the story, no reveal other than the obvious. I felt like we were going to get a traitor reveal at the end, and we didn't. If I'm being honest, I thought the author was leaving little breadcrumbs here and there, and I was disappointed that it wasn't the case. Still, this was funny and I liked it.
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