Runner (2009)

Another very excellent Jane Whitfield. Still the best series. ( )

This is a novel that I didn’t like from the very beginning and didn’t get any better as it went along. There were a lot of things I didn’t like about this novel. For one thing, Jane helping out a woman that she never met, knows nothing about, but is doing so at great expense and by doing so puts not only her but her husband in peril is not remotely believable. It just doesn’t make any sense to me and I can’t believe any human being would actually do this. When the premise is this flawed, it makes it hard to take the novel seriously.

That wasn’t the only flaw. The characterization was poor as well. Christine Monahan, the pregnant woman that Jane was trying to help was so whiny and needy. It made it impossible to root for her, and I just wanted to get her off the page. The stalker boyfriend and the stalker boyfriend’s father were absurd, not remotely believable characters. Their motivations and their actions didn’t make a bit of sense. About halfway through, I pulled the plug on this novel. There were parts of it that were fine, but I couldn’t get past the major flaws in the novel and couldn’t finish it.

Carl Alves – author of The Invocation ( )

A worthy and long-awaited next book in the Jane Whitefield series. More later... ( )

Great action novel! ( )

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