The Revenge List by Hannah Mary McKinnon
5/23/23; 368 pages
MIRA Books
The Revenge List by Hannah Mary McKinnon is a very highly recommended thriller with a jaw-dropping opening. You'll be glued to the pages to see what led to this scene.
According to everyone who knows her Frankie Morgan has well-known anger issues, so it is no surprise that her father has asked her to attend six sessions of an anger management group. During the first class, she is asked to make a forgiveness list of the people she believes have wronged her. She makes the list in the notebook she always carries, but during the break she skips the rest of the class to get coffee with another attendee. Then an incident has her getting angry at him and loosing her notebook. She eventually recovers it, but not until she notices that accidents are happening to some of the people on her list. Frankie is desperately trying to find out who took the notebook and who is targeting the names on her list.
The Revenge List is an excellent, well-written thriller that was impossible to put down once I started reading. I liked this book at the beginning and then began to love it as I continued reading.
After the opening, the tension is already high and keeps climbing.
Events in her life are adding to the pressure. As the plot unfolds
almost everyone is a suspect and nothing is as straightforward as it
originally appears. There are several twists along the way as well as
encounters with the police as Frankie does her investigating. The final
denouement will provide you with a thrilling shocking jolt.
Adding to the interest are the background stories of the people who
are on her forgiveness list and why they are on the list. Once these
stories start being told, Frankie's anger becomes more understandable.
Sure she still needs to work through the anger and forgive people, but
the causes of it are more justifiable. Frankie becomes a fully realized
character through her backstories and you will care about her.
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