Hello!
I just finished the book
Redemption Road
by John Hart
Oh. My. Word. Go. Get. It.
Redemption Road is an easy to read novel. Yet, it’s so well-written, it’s hard to put down. The book is filled with horrific imagery of women being abducted, tortured and murdered. But from this ghastly premise rise two remarkable female characters.
One is Elizabeth Black, a North Carolina police detective who may soon face excessive-force and murder charges. After she came to the rescue of an 18-year-old kidnapping victim, the culprits suffered agonizingly slow deaths, 18 bullets emptied into the two men. Hart’s other memorable character is Channing Shore, the waiflike victim who refuses to stay a victim. She becomes a resilient survivor.
There’s a secret that bonds these women. Each is willing to sacrifice herself to save the other. Their special relationship is the one redeeming aspect of Redemption Road that makes it worth finishing.
There’s More…A boy with a gun waits for the man who killed his mother.After thirteen years in prison, a good cop walks free. But for how long? And deep in the forest, on the altar of an abandoned church, the unthinkable has just happened…
The first paragraph makes this book sound horrible, which it is, but it is not graphic violence with details. It’s more of what your mind comes up with…
With that said, it is a slow read in the manner that I read almost every word of the book. I didn’t want to miss a thing. I didn’t know how all the characters and their problems/issues/secrets were going to intertwine together, but boy do they. I don’t know how John Hart keeps all of it straight or how he was going to tie up all the loose ends, but he does in in such a non-cheesy way.
I give this book a 5 out of 5 stars.
I have put two other books of his on my reading list: The Lost Child and The Iron House. Both have gotten amazing reviews.