Review: Run by Patti Larsen

E-book: Run by Patti Larsen

Pages 132

Genre: Young Adult, thriller

Source: Sent from author

Short Synopsis: Reid thought he was finally getting his life back together when his older sister reclaims him from foster care. But after spending sometime with her, Reid is captured one day, and is suddenly on the run for his life.

My Thoughts: Definitely a different read, but leaves the reader with a lot of unanswered questions in the end.

After being sprung from foster care by his older sister, Reid is finally living a great life, without really questioning where it's all coming from.

Just as Reid thinks everything is fine, he is woken up one day bay random men who capture, and drug him. He finally wakes up in a forest and escapes from his captors. For Reid, it's all about surviving the mysterious hunters, forces of nature, and who knows what else? Can Reid make it one day at a time and finally get out?

This novel definitely kept me interested, but I felt like there was a lot of assumptions with no real major explanations. I kept waiting for some type of reason as to why they were all captured in the first place. Who were their captors? What exactly were the hunters? Why were they in a forest with government facilities? Why were there normal hunters, who weren't being hunted, and why could they get in and and out when the children couldn't? Suspense is fine, but when things aren't properly explained, it doesn't really do it for me. The plot of the novel kept me interested enough, but overall there were just too many unanswered questions. The majority of the novel seemed to focus on survival of the fittest, and I enjoyed the main idea of it all, but with no real substance and only assumptions, it was a bit hard to take in.

Would I recommend this book: Maybe

Rating: I give this book a 3/5.