About the Book
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| ★★★✩✩ Goodreads | Amazon |
A decades old mystery and a deadly game of cat and mouse
will change Charlotte Marshall forever.
Charlotte has a good life: friends, family, a successful
career. Her perfect life is destroyed when research for a book and a connection
from her past plunges her into the middle of her worst nightmare.
On the run, with no one to trust, Charlotte begins to
unravel the work of a sadistic murderer. Afraid and alone, she will learn the
meaning of trust and just when to run.
Run, Becky Johnson’s first
Charlotte Marshall novel, has an intriguing and promising premise that had me
interested enough to pick it up. Charlotte, while working on writing her third
novel, stumbles upon a decades-old series of murders, quickly becomes caught
within the killer’s sights and barely escapes with her life on more than one
occasion. Her story is a quick, action-filled read, but overall, I felt the
mystery and suspense turned out to be fairly underwhelming. Charlotte’s
investigative work and subsequent discoveries come a bit too easily and lack
the expected misdirection, and in the end, resolution arrives unsatisfactorily
without enough answers. Perhaps Johnson provides the answers I want in the
second Charlotte Marshall novel, Stand, but on its own, Run left
me feeling a bit disappointed. (However, my opinion seems to be in the minority
among readers - be sure to check out other opinions of Becky Johnson’s Run
here.)
Thanks to
Becky Johnson and Pump Up Your Book, I received a copy of Run and the
opportunity to provide an honest review. I was not required to write a positive
review, and all the opinions I have expressed are my own.
§ Run is available at Amazon.
About the Author
Books are Becky
Johnson’s passion and always have been. She used to get in trouble in school
for reading during class!
Becky has
Master’s degrees in social work and history, and for her day job she is a
social worker. In her writing she tries to answer a question that is important
to both social work and history: Why? She always wants to know why people do
the things they do or feel the way they feel.
When not
reading or writing she enjoys yoga, cooking, and makes a pretty mean chili!
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