Review: Jenny's Blue Velvet
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 11, 2013
This book is weird. But not weird in a bad way. It's weird in a good, unexpected way. I will say that it started off slow for me, and I had a hard time getting into it at first, but the main character, Jenny, is so quirky and odd that I couldn't quite make myself put it down. I wanted to know what she was going to do next.On the surface, Jenny's life seems really boring. She's nearly forty, has two 14-year old twin daughters, and has been married to Jason for half her life. He is the owner of a gym and a fitness buff. Jenny, is not athletically inclined at all, but has recently took up running. You see, Jenny's thing is that she doesn't have a thing. She bounces around from career to career and interest to interest and can never seem to settle. Her sex life with her husband has flatlined, and she hates her job, so she's searching for something to fulfill her. So she turns to writing. She thinks that if she can write the next big romance novel, money will come rolling in and she'll be able to pay off all of their debt and then their real lives can begin. But weird things begin to happen. She meets Cassandra and becomes friends with her in real life. Cassandra inspires Jenny's character, Candy, in her new book. But the more she writes her book, the more things in the real world start to go sort of wonky. And then things just get downright...crazy. People around Jenny start disappearing or turning up dead, and she begins to think that maybe her book has something to do with it all. If only she knew....I will definitely say that I'm glad I kept reading this book. The last half of the book really picks up the pace, and there are several huge twists that I didn't see coming - at all. Very entertaining, and a very original and creative story line. Even after finishing this book, I still wonder if I really ended up "getting" it. This is definitely a story that will stay with you and make you think. I ended up enjoying it very much!