Review: Redemption Road

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Antiques dealer by day, secret painter by night, Rory Flanagan arrives home to find a man, battered and bruised, sprawled out on her newly upholstered Victorian sofa. The brash, six-foot-four stranger takes an unusual interest in Rory’s vintage gold pendant—given to Rory by her mother the day she was killed. They say Christian Locke is a loner, an orphan, a mysterious cowboy the small-town gossips deem an outsider. They tell her to stay away. But Rory can’t ignore the connection she feels to the mulish recluse, or the interest he has in the cursed necklace she wears around her neck. Christian says he doesn’t believe in fate, but every twist and turn of the pendant’s story seems to lead her to the same place... Welcome to Redemption Road. Your secrets are not safe here.

Genre: romantic suspense

Publication date: August 2021

Mature content: yes

Review: Redemption Road is my second book by author Amanda McKinney (read my review of Buried Deception) and I'm for sure getting addicted to her stories. 

 

In Redemption Road, the suspense starts strong (with the discovery of a dead, mutilated body) but then the love story of Rory and Christian (which begins more or less a train wreck and goes though a lot of ups and downs before the happy ever after) takes center stage. And yes, their story is beautiful, and the way their past and present comes full circle is nothing short of amazing.

 

 

   

 

 

The suspense? I would have liked a bit more follow up, since you only really get insight about what really happened in the epilogue, and even then there are still a lot of unanswered questions. 

 

Still, Redemption Road was a book that hooked me from page one and I just couldn't put it down. If you love the genre, you shouldn't miss it for sure.  

Happy readings!

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