On the Run by Valerie Hansen

On the Run by Valerie Hansen ISBN-13: 9781335404954 Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Love Inspired Suspense Released: January 12th 2021

Source: ebook review copy from the publisher through NetGalley.

Book Description, Modified from Goodreads:
When a desperate criminal pulls a gun on her in the ER, nurse Janie Kirkpatrick is in deep trouble—until undercover cop Brad Benton saves her life. Now Janie’s a witness with a lethal enemy and on the run with a stranger. She has no choice but to trust Brad. Can they find the criminal mastermind and take down the criminals?


My Review:
On the Run is a romantic suspense novel. I liked that Janie saved Brad's life as often as he saved hers. She's brave and was willing to run into danger if it meant saving someone she cared about. Janie could be irrational, though, when it came to her dog. Brad didn't seem to mind this, so they'll probably get along fine even when not in the middle of danger. However, the story was just to...odd to seem realistic. I can somewhat understand Janie insisting on finding her lost dog even though they know the bad guys (who are trying to kill them) are nearby. But when they arrived, she stormed up the bad guys demanding to know where her dog was. Really? And even though it was obvious to anyone at that point that Brad wasn't loyal to the drug people, he still tried to go back undercover with the same group of people that he'd just betrayed. Why, when at the end, he simply needed to identify the thugs that had been after them? Also, at one point, Janie refused to consider getting on a plane (especially during a storm) even though not doing so would mean death, yet she promptly fell asleep after the plane took off. Finally, though Janie and Brad quickly came to admire each other, getting married after three or four days of knowing each other under extreme circumstances just didn't work for me.

Both Janie and Brad prayed to God for help. There was no sex or bad language.


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