Hot Pursuit
The Pursuits of Sarah Burrowes
by Rebecca Freeborn
Meet wannabe investigative journalist Sarah Burrowes. For Sarah, life hasn’t worked out as she’d hoped. At 30 everyone expects you to have your life together but she’s is in a job she hates and, to top everything off, her boyfriend has run out leaving her shattered and up to her ears in debt.
Heartbroken and fed up, she decides to take her career by the reins and manages to bag the assignment of a lifetime in Europe. The next day she’s on a plane to Barcelona with Nick, the gorgeous and egocentric photographer (who also happens to be her ex’s best friend), hot on the trail of a missing rockstar. With no investigate journalistic experience, Sarah must use all her intuition and wiles to track the rockstar down. But things go far from smoothly – in the assignment, and in her love life.
As Sarah and Nick travel from Barcelona to Madrid and on to Amsterdam, they uncover something much bigger than just a missing rockstar. As things get more dangerous, Sarah must decide if she’s prepared to risk everything – even their lives – for the story of a lifetime.
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Momma Says: 2 stars⭐⭐
Hot Pursuit is more a long, slow walk, especially for the first half of the book. It does pick up in the second half, and I might have enjoyed it at that point if it weren't for the characters. Sarah is not at all heroine-like. Not even a little bit and on top of that, she's completely incompetent, and her naiveté is over the top ridiculous. I assume her lack of knowledge on anything current is supposed to be funny with her working for a celebrity magazine, but the bumbling reporter act just grew tiresome. Nick is just as bad with his barbs and put-downs. If they're supposed to be witty, they fail, and he comes off as a jerk most of the time. I won't go into all the characters, but I didn't find a single one worth rooting for. They're all unlikable in one way or another. Our blundering duo does get around, traveling from one place to another, which could've been interesting. However, it's more like they reach point A, check in to a motel, see a couple of places everybody has heard of, then meander around and ask the wrong questions. Yet, somehow, they manage to learn where to go next, so it starts all over again - Rinse, lather, repeat. There is a small bit of romance at the end, but there's really no build up to it. There is a physical attraction, but not once did I get the impression of anything more than that. Needless to say, this one left me disappointed at best.
❃❃Reader Copy provided by NetGalley and Pantera Press
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