Review: Switchback

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Bud Mac Phearson's job is to protect Mallory Christiani and her young daughter, Emily—not to get personally involved with either. But after Emily disappears and the trail leads directly to a well-known crime boss, Mac can't refuse the beautiful single mother's pleas for help. With assassins hot on their trail and danger around every corner, the tentative partners race to find the missing key needed for the ransom…even as they try to fight the attraction blooming between them. But when Mac trades his own life for Emily's, Mallory must risk it all to save the man she's come to love…

Genre: romantic suspense

Publication date: September 2015, for the current Kindle version. The original story dates back from 1990.

Mature content: yes

Review: Even though it's a bit outdated by now, Switchback is still a fast paced suspense book. There are virtually no slow moments in the plot, and a couple of the twists and turns were completely unexpected.

The only part of the book I found less convincing was the very end. First because Mallory, who'd been depending on Mac's experience in handling difficult situations throughout the story, suddenly becomes James Bond and is able to devise a fool proof plan to rescue Mac. While I don't have anything against Mallory taking the reins and saving the day, it sort of clashed with the previous image I had of her. And second because Mac, in the space of two paragraphs, seems to change from saying he was not good enough for Mallory to asking her to marry him. Yes, I wanted the happily ever after but his sudden about face was just too rushed.

Despite my rantings above, Switchback is an engaging read and if you love a good action/suspense book with a touch of romance, then you'll like this one.

Have a wonderful weekend,