The Lost Kings
Tyrell Johnson
A riveting psychological thriller with a killer twist about a woman forced to confront the darkest moment in her childhood in order to move on from her past and open her heart to love. One night when Jeanie King is twelve years old, her father comes home covered in blood. The next day, Jeanie wakes up alone. Her father has disappeared and he's taken her beloved twin brother, Jamie. Inevitably, this loss leads to others, as Jeanie is ripped from her life in rural Washington and her childhood love, Maddox. Twenty years later, Jeanie, now in England, keeps her demons at bay by drinking too much, sleeping with a married man, and speaking to a therapist she doesn't respect. But her past catches up to her in the form of Maddox, who shows up at her dead-end job with a proposition: he's found her father, he says, will she come with him to confront her dad and find out what really happened that night, what really happened to Jamie? At once a heart-pounding mystery and an affecting exploration of love and the familial ties that bind us, The Lost Kings is a propulsive read that will transport, move, and shock you.
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"This was a very interesting, comprehensive and well researched book. I even learned new things about some of the men I had read about before, such as Edward V and Prince Arthur. I did like how the author tried to show how each subject's life ending created a vacuum and how that was filled but didn't go too far down the "what might have been" path of speculation. I felt the final chapter was a little long but did enjoy some of the information in it.<br/><br/>I did enjoy each subject treated within the context of the time they lived and the belief systems of the time to put their lives in greater context.<br/><br/>My one HUGE pet peeve with books like this is no genealogical tree. It is a huge omission and did detract from my reading experience - especially when there were so many lines discussed and 3 generations of Henrys in one bio. I also hate when an author (and this one was guilty, too), changes how they refer to someone. Example, you've got Edward, Earl of Warwick but Edward IV also is being discussed as well as Edward's father, also referred to as Earl of Warwick. Too many people of similar names and titles and the author sometimes uses them interchangeably. Edward - which Edward? Warwick? The younger or the elder? Depends on which paragraph you're in. Sometimes it was really hard to follow who was being discussed - a tree, even a simplified one, would have been helpful.<br/><br/>But overall a very interesting look at these lives and the world in which they lived and I do recommend it.<br/><br/>Also, some of the links at the end such as Tudor accidents in history, were very interesting."
Sandra Lee
