Submitted on 2013/09/14 at 8:54 pm

This is a sequel to “The Setup” and I was one of those who thought that there shouldn’t be a sequel. In “The Setup”, Macy hires a hit-man to take out Jim because she was too weak emotionally to confront him about his dalliance with Brandy. In a horrible case of mistaken identity, her son, Jamie, is murdered. How do you recover from this? What is more to be done or not, after this horrific realisation? Whatever happens Macy’s life is changed irrevocably.

How does a mother recover from the death of a child? How do you continue living with yourself, let alone other people, with the reality of having your child killed? Can’t really explain this away.

I was lucky enough to be given the opportunity to edit “Redemption” before it went to print. I must point out that I began reading it with a “she can’t possibly survive this” frame of mind.

She survives. She forgives herself and she lives. Macy joins a support group and makes friends. She ditches the “Martha Stewart” demeanour and takes control of her life. She confides in her mother and Maria, her mother, makes a plan. Jim, her husband, suspects that something is off but he’s too self-absorbed to investigate his hunch further. He continues trawling the dating sites to escape his life at home. Meanwhile Macy’s friends set him up with one of them and Macy gets her grounds for divorce. Her mother persuades her father to take the fall for Macy’s despicable act. After all, he’s serving a life sentence. One more will not take anything away from him.

I loved Sega’s character development. Unlike the first one, this sequel had more feeling and depth. The timeline is chronological and the use of language and grammar show’s Sega’s growth as an author. The book is easy to read and…

As all fiction go, this is totally unbelievable. Go Sega, go!!

NB: IT IS SELF PUBLISHED.