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The Scenic Route by Katie Ruggle – a Review

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The Scenic Route by Katie Ruggle – a Review

 

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Description:
Why date a mountain man? Because climbing him will leave you breathless.

Felicity Pax loves her job. She craves excitement, and being a bounty hunter gives her that in spades. So when her estranged mother disappears with a small fortune in tow, Felicity chases her like she would any other skip. Too bad she didn’t barter on having increasingly infuriating (and infuriatingly hot) PI Bennett Green on her tail.

Bennett’s got a job to do, and if that means shadowing Felicity…well…he’s had worse assignments. Even if he’s 99% sure the increasingly intriguing bounty hunter is leading him on a wild goose chase through the Rockies.

If she has to drag her PI tail through endless quirky mountain towns in order to shake him, that’s what she’s determined to do…but it isn’t long before Felicity’s intended distraction turns up a mystery worth solving—and Bennett becomes the unexpected partner she never realized she needed. As things heat up, Felicity will have to decide what’s most important to staying one step ahead of the “enemy” or giving herself freedom to experience the adventure of a lifetime.

The Rocky Mountains get unBEARably hot in Katie Ruggle’s brand-new series packed with adventure, action, tall dark & scruffy heroes, and a sense of quirky humor that will be your next perfect escape.

 

 

Review:

The Scenic Route by Katie Ruggle is the 1st book in her new series, Beneath the Wild Sky. All of the 5 Pax sisters run a bounty hunter bail and recovery business; and their mother has recently stolen an expensive necklace, and has disappeared.  We meet Felicity Pax, our heroine, who loves her job as a bounty hunter, which gives her lots of excitement and fun. With her sister Molly, still searching for their mother, Felicity decides to head to Simpson, Colorado to chase a skip; and knows that her stalker continues to follow her.

Bennett Green, our hero, is a private investigator, who has been hired to find Jane Pax, and the necklace she stole.  He closely follows Felicity, as she knows he is tailing her.  When Felicty arrives in Simpson, Colorado, she stops at local coffee shop, and meets the waitress, Lou; who learns she is a bounty hunter. After a short time, Bennett walks in, and Felicity tells Lou that he is a stalker. But slowly, Bennett moves close to Felicity, helping her find the person she is looking for.  Lou excitingly calls her friends (Simpson Murder Club), to meet Felicity and join them in helping them find where the skip is hiding.  

Unable to get a room, Felicity and Bennett stay overnight in the car, and soon they discover the person they want, and end up in Las Vegas, where they team up together, as Bennett becomes the partner she really needed.    In a short time, the relationship between Felcity and Bennett escalates, as the chemistry between them was sizzling. 

What follows is an exciting, non-stop action-packed adventure with Felicity and Bennett working together, against a dangerous escaped criminal putting themselves in harms way.  I really liked the story line, and all the characters. I loved how Bennett and Felicity became a great team.  I also enjoyed Lou and her Simpson Murder Club friends, with the husbands helping them out.  It was an exciting story line, that was so much fun.

The Scenic Route was a captivating, enjoyable and heartwarming story.  Felicity, Bennett and all the endearing characters at the coffee shop were all entertaining.   The Scenic Route was a fun, exciting, action-packed story, with some very good characters.  The Scenic Route was very well written by Katie Ruggle.  I suggest you read The Scenic Route.

Reviewed by Barb

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The Scenic Route by Devan Sipher-a review

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THE SCENIC ROUTE by Devan Sipher-a review

The Scenic Route

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date June 3, 2014

Austin Gittleman is running late, and not just for the seaside wedding he’s attending. Austin’s an eye doctor, who doesn’t see what’s in front of him, until he crashes into Naomi Bloom, a pastry chef with a taste for adventure. Naomi believes a straight line isn’t always the shortest distance between places — or people.

Do any two people look at love the same way? Austin and Naomi offer conflicting narrative accounts as they circle each other through a series of miscommunications and missed connections. In The Scenic Route, life is what happens on the way to where you’re going. It’s unpredictable and sometimes fleeting, but it can be pretty wonderful when you bring the right person along for the ride.

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REVIEW: THE SCENIC ROUTE is a fictional storyline about love, loss, mistakes and making amends. It is not necessarily a romantic storyline because our leading couple has a habit of destructive behavior that finds them in one relationship failure after another. But don’t despair, they will get their happily ever after, only it takes a few years, a few failures and a few regrets.

Told from two distinct third person POV, the focus of the storyline is Dr. Austin Gittleman (an ophthalmologist) and pastry chef Naomi Bloom-one time childhood schoolmates who were re-introduced in Florida at a mutual friend’s wedding. After a hot night of passion and sex, Austin and Naomi each went their separate ways hoping the other would stop and ask for something more. As the years pass, Naomi and Austin would run into one another from time to time, and each of their hearts would break a little more. Naomi and Austin are in love with one another but are too afraid to express their true feelings.

The reader is pulled into a frustrating but interesting story about two people whose lives have been turned upside down by the choices they have made. Not that their lives were abnormal, because in fact, their lives are quite similar to many thirty something singles looking for that special person in love and life. Naomi and Austin continue to ride the relationship roller coaster while the reader holds on for something more permanent.

Devan Sipher writes a story that will resonate with many people whose lives are too busy, too focused or too involved to settle down with that special someone. The storyline covers several years; several failures; the death of two marriages; and the death of someone close. It is a story about love- a love shared by two people-one who wants to take the ‘scenic route’ through life while the other finds the path (or route) of least resistance more to his style.

The secondary characters are colorful and drive a major portion of the storyline. We are introduced to family, friends, lovers and the professionals our couple meet along the way. It will take several failed relationships for Naomi and Austin to understand that who they have always wanted was only a phone call or text away. This is a story about two stubborn people who were afraid to take a step in a different direction knowing that what awaited could have been their happily ever after.

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Reviewed by Sandy

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Devan SipherBorn in LA.

I always thought that would make a good title for my mem­oir. Not that I have any inten­tion of ever writ­ing a memoir.

I grew up mostly in South­field, Michi­gan, which sounds mis­lead­ingly bucolic for a sub­urb of Detroit with more than 27 mil­lion square feet of office space.

I grad­u­ated from the Uni­ver­sity of Michi­gan. (Go Blue!) After brief stints in med­ical school and rab­bini­cal school, I ended up get­ting a mas­ter of fine arts degree at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

For the past seven years I’ve been a writer of the Vows col­umn at The New York Times. Rumor has it that in the movie 27 Dresses, the actor James Mars­den por­trayed me — but with bet­ter hair.

 

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