Publisher: Penguin Random House
Publication date: June 10, 2025
Thank you Random House and NetGalley for the e-arc!
Jane and her father live in an isolated cabin in the middle of the Montana woods. Jane’s father is always worried that a shady government agency is coming to get them. He considers himself an anti technology truth-teller and “they” don’t want his voice heard. When her father is getting ready to go on one of his mysterious trips, Jane convinces him to take her too. He takes her to Seattle and what happens there turns Jane’s life upside down. She learns her entire existence has been a lie.
I loved Jane! She smart and vulnerable. She goes from a quiet isolated life centered around her father to getting caught up in his horrific crime. She sets out for San Francisco to find her mother and find answers to who she really is. The story is set the mid 1990s just a the burgeoning internet is taking hold. It was a walk down memory lane with all the references to early internet life. Anyone besides me old enough to remember chat rooms?
It was interesting to watch as is Jane plunged into the world she had little to no experience with and how she grows. She has to learn how to navigate living in a big city, get a job, and make friends.
This is an all round great mash up of mystery/thriller and historical fiction. The plot, pace, the characters, the settings are all top notch. Janelle Brown really knocked it out of the park with this book. What Kind of Paradise comes out June 10. Just go ahead and preorder it now because it’s a perfect beach read. My verdict: loved it 😍 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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About the Author
Janelle Brown is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels I’ll Be You, Pretty Things, Watch Me Disappear, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, and This Is Where We Live, with What Kind of Paradise coming in June 2025. Her books have been sold in two dozen countries around the world. Pretty Things - named a Best Book of 2020 by Amazon - is currently being adapted for television by Peacock and Fifth Season.
Her journalism and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Vogue, Elle, Wired, Self, RealSimple, The Los Angeles Times, and numerous other publications. Previously, she worked as a senior writer at Salon, and began her career as a staff writer at Wired during the dotcom boom years, working on seminal Web sites like HotWired and Wired News. In the 1990s, she was also the editor and co-founder of Maxi, an irreverent (and now, long-gone) women’s pop culture Webzine.
A native of San Francisco and graduate of UC Berkeley, she has since defected to Los Angeles, where she lives with her husband Greg and their two children.