An Amish Country Reunion by Patricia Johns

An Amish Country Reunion
by Patricia Johns

ISBN-13: 9780369737441
Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Harlequin Heartwarming
Released: June 25, 2024

Source: ebook review copy from the publisher through NetGalley.

Book Description, Modified from Goodreads:
Arriving at the State Police K9 Training Center in Amish Country, Trooper Genevieve Austin learns that she’ll be reporting to her former partner, Sergeant Scott Simpson. Gen hasn’t seen Scott since he transfered to a new job. Her own struggles to climb the ranks are why she's there, a punishment for insubordination designed to test if she can take orders and if Scott can be her boss. Gen soon is unofficially investigating a case of theft involving the neighboring Amish, and Scott helps her. But working together makes old feelings resurface, and Gen and Scott must choose their careers or each other.


My Review:
An Amish Country Reunion is a romance with a mystery. The main characters were complex in the sense that their intentions and actions didn't always line up. However, the author wrote this so the solution to their problems was obvious to the reader but it was a struggle for the characters.

Gen wanted to do dangerous police work. Seriously, she should do undercover work as no one expected the skinny, stunning beauty to really be a cop. All she had to do is smile and ask a question to get most people talking. The problem was that her rich, influential father told her bosses to keep her safe, so she now lacked the experience to move up the ranks or take on the more dangerous jobs. Scott wanted to be commander over the station where Gen worked, but he couldn't have a relationship with her and be her boss. It didn't matter when he thought she didn't care for him, but then they both realized that they loved each other.

Frankly, I couldn't really accept that Scott's old boss would really think he could command a station full of cops. A dog looked at Scott with sad eyes, and Scott treated him like a personal pet even though he knew that wasn't in the dog's best interests. Gen easily manipulated him into to giving her what she wanted. Gen kept choosing to defy orders because she knew better, and it was only because Scott loved Gen that he said she'd reformed. Her attitude got better when she saw the truth about her situation, but she still couldn't be trusted to follow the chain of command.

I also didn't feel like the author really knew how K9s were trained as it mostly involved taking the dogs for a walk or cuddling puppies. And, yes, a dog would find it confusing for his handler to command him to attack his handler like a bad guy. I liked the story, it just didn't feel very realistic. There was no sex or bad language. Overall, I'd recommend this story to fans of Amish and K9 fiction.


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