On The Edge- Blog Tour

 

Author: Jane Jesmond 

Publisher: Verve Books 

Publishing Date: 26th October 2021 

Many thanks to the publishing team and Random Things Tour for the blog tour invite and my copy of the book. Go and check out on Twitter #OnTheEdge for some fab pictures blogger uploaded with their copy of the book. 

Blurb 

Jen Shaw has climbed all her life: daring ascents of sheer rock faces, crumbling buildings, cranes - the riskier the better. Both her work and personal life revolved around climbing, and the adrenaline high it gave her. Until she went too far and hurt the people she cares about. So she's given it all up now. Honestly, she has. And she's checked herself into a rehab centre to prove it.

Yet, when Jen awakens to find herself drugged and dangling off the local lighthouse during a wild storm less than twenty-four hours after a 'family emergency' takes her home to Cornwall, she needs all her skill to battle her way to safety.

Has Jen fallen back into her old risky ways, or is there a more sinister explanation hidden in her hometown? Only when she has navigated her fragmented memories and faced her troubled past will she be able to piece together what happened - and trust herself to fix it.

My Thoughts

Well this a page turning book for sure!! It is a well researched and there is lots of attention to detail which always elevate the book.  There were a few different sub plots but they weren't overboard and came together nicely for this dark read. The description of the Cornish backdrop were brilliant and transported me there. I am a visual reader and this was perfect for me. 

When Jen and her boyfriend end up in a climbing incident, Grid ends up being seriously injured. Her bother Kit begs her not to return to climbing which is her life and soul. Although she begrudgingly agrees but she's still an adrenaline junkie at heart and without that fix she unfortunately turns to drugs. After lots of misfortune and upset she agrees to go to rehab. 

Once in rehab she gets a message asking her to return home she more than happily obliges but on her route home both her bother and sister in law don't respond..alarm bells start ringing. Jen has no other choice but to find a room somewhere, but when she wakes up she's not in a hotel room but at the lighthouse. So many questions, how did she end up here, who has placed her, has she gone a drug binge again? how come her brother hasn't made contact. 

I liked how Jen travelled back to her childhood home/area, we learn more about family and friendships. It was tailored well to how relationships change and mould as we grew older and how presence of peoples in our lives can leave some sort of imprint and impact too. 

You question everyones motive at some point in the book. Who rescued her and what was their motive? if at all, who caused this trouble, how much do her family know. It kept me on my toes. 

I don't want to go too in depth with this review as It will give too much away. But if  you like a fast paced, thriller  that is full of adventure, then  you need this book. 

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