Review: Hours to Kill

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Just as Homeland Security Agent Addison Leigh reaches the pinnacle of her cyber investigation into a firearms smuggling ring, she's attacked and left for dead. Her estranged husband, ICE Agent Mack Jordan, is notified that she's at the hospital in a coma. He may have let his past military trauma ruin their short marriage, but she never gave up on their relationship, and he remains her next of kin.

Mack rushes to her bedside, where he promises to hunt down the man who attacked her. Mack failed her once when he bailed on their marriage, and he's not about to let her down again. But when she wakes up in the hospital, she remembers neither the attack nor ever being married to Mack. And when a second attempt to take her life is made, it's clear something very sinister is going on, and Mack and Addison are in for the ride of their lives.

Genre: romantic suspense

Publication date: March 2021

Mature content: nothing of sexual nature

Review: While I'm all in for clean romantic suspense books with a Christian undertone, Hours to Kill felt a bit flat to me. 

None of the characters was very convincing, Addison's amnesia sounds strange and forced, and the way some things are done is just strange (like going to a safe house just for half a day and then going back to everyone's regular lives when the issues that prompted the need for the safe house in the first place are far from solved, for example). I also don't believe the governmental agencies involved would cooperate with each other just after a few phone calls, with no other bureaucracy involved. Unfortunately for all of us, that's not how governments work, so, again, I was not convinced.

There is a nice happy ever after finale, but to get there you have to endure a long - and sometimes not very fast paced - plot, so I can't bring myself to actively recommend this book. 

Hours to Kill is book 3 in the Homeland Heroes series by Susan Sleeman but I read it as a stand alone and had no issues. I have by now dowloaded the other two books and will post reviews of those soon.

Happy readings!

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