The Perfect Revenge: The Dragonfly Rises by WilD

Eloquently portraying the many shades of grief and loss, but also of healing and renewal, The Perfect Revenge: The Dragonfly Rises by WilD is a brilliant, emotive novel with a tough inner core.

Zoey lives happily with her loving parents until one day tragedy strikes – 0n the way to a long-waited-for football match, she is involved in a car accident in which she loses her father, while her mother is severely injured and bedridden. At merely eight, Zoey’s misfortunes have only begun; moving in with her bitter aunt Agnes and narcissistic uncle Max to escape poverty, Zoey finds herself trapped in a dark web of disturbing family dynamics that will shape her future – one in which she has an ongoing desire for revenge.

With its dramatic set-up and dark tone, this novel is the spellbinding story of a girl who has lost everything, ultimately finding the success that has always eluded her – feeling at once like a slow-burning drama and action hero origin story. Mostly told in a flashback, the reader is pulled into Zoey’s story by a cutting, ironic, and profound narrative voice that shifts between past and present in an epic voyage from the depths of grief to healing.

A novel that is surprisingly rich, given its revenge-heavy premise, this first installment of The Perfect Revenge series establishes an eminently relatable protagonist who is deftly portrayed with equal layers of strength and vulnerability.

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