Then Maddox, her childhood friend and first love, shows up at her job. But her concerns about Jamie and where he might be always have been central to her. Now, she works in a dead-end job, carries on with a married man and has complicated sessions with a therapist for whom she has little respect. She finally got herself together to move to England, attend Oxford University and graduate with honors in psychology.
Her teen years were filled with drugs, alcohol, anger and rebellion. After her father and Jamie vanished, she moved back in with her aunt and uncle. The twins had only been living with their father for a couple years after he reclaimed them when his second military tour concluded. They had been raised mainly by their aunt and uncle because their mother had died in a car accident while they were unharmed in the back seat. This was the final cap to the twins’ fractured childhood. Later that night, he left again, taking her twin brother, Jamie, with him. Jeanie King was 13 years old when she saw her father come home, covered in blood. “The Lost Kings” works well as a coming-of-age tale, a story of reconciling with the past and of wasted potential. Johnson channels a bit of Tana French for a decidedly American story that starts on a high note and never falters as it reaches an intriguing finale. The Kings of Tyrell Johnson’s intense psychological thriller “The Lost Kings” have nothing to do with royalty but are a fractured family who have lost their way together and as individuals.
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