Janelle Decker lived with her grandmother as a child, and
now that she's an adult, with her own twelve-year-old to
take care of, she's returning to care for her as her health
declines. Things are almost the way she remembers them,
except for the neighbor boys, the Tierney's, who are grown
now like she is. Gabe and his twin brothers, Michael and
Andrew, are still close by, and now Janelle finds herself
faced with the estranged relationship she and Gabe had way
back when. It's the incident that occurred in the woods one
day that drove Janelle away and the brothers apart, but
there are secrets that will be revealed now that she is
back.
This isn't a heart-warming title, but instead it leaves you
pondering on life and relationships. This is a change of
genres for me, being more of a dark fiction fan, and I was
pleasantly surprised for the most part. There are not a lot
of syrupy sweet moments and clichés. What you have here is a
tale about relationships and life in general, a circle of
life tale, if you will. Janelle having to take care of her
ailing grandmother is believable and certainly something
others can relate to. I particularly enjoyed the slow
unraveling and hard reveal of THE FAVOR. Well done. Author
Megan Hart done a great job with this spellbinding novel.
Janelle Decker has happy childhood memories of her grandma's
house, and even lived there through high school. Now she's
back with her twelve-year-old son to look after her ailing
Nan, and hardly anything seems to have changed, not even the
Tierney boys next door. Gabriel Tierney, local bad-boy. The
twins, Michael and Andrew. After everything that happened
between the four of them, Janelle is shocked that Gabe still
lives in St. Mary's. And he isn't trying very hard to
convince Janelle he's changed from the moody teenage boy she
once knew. If anything, he seems bent on making sure she has
no intentions of rekindling their past. To this day, though
there might've been a lot of speculation about her
relationship with Gabe, nobody else knows she was there in
the woods that day...the day a devastating accident tore the
Tierney brothers apart and drove Janelle away. But there are
things that even Janelle doesn't know, and as she and Gabe
revisit their interrupted romance, she begins to uncover the
truth denied to her when she ran away all those years ago.
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