Sunday, June 6, 2021

Review: Called into Action by Paris Wynters

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Title: Called into Action
Author: Paris Wynters

Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: May 25, 2021
Publisher: Carina Press
ASIN: B08L827SQM

They’ll find a way to work together. A young boy’s life depends on it.

Penelope Ramos has dreamed of being a K-9 search-and-rescue handler since she was a little girl. Armed with a quick mind and her German shepherd, Havoc, she rides into Maple Falls, Vermont, determined to get her certification. She isn’t expecting the gruff, unreadable park ranger assigned to evaluate her skills.

Park ranger Jay Gosling is a pro. It’s clear to him that neither Penelope nor her unpredictable canine has what it takes...although his boss feels otherwise. Whatever. Jay will never have to work with them and he has half a mind to escort them both right out of town. But when a young boy goes missing, he doesn’t have that luxury.

Working side by side tests their tentative peace, but Jay and Penelope are together on one thing: they’ll both do whatever it takes to find the missing child—before it’s too late.

My rating:

***copy provided by author/publisher through BookSirens***

DNF @ 13%

I couldn't get to the part in the blurb, the part that made me press the "request" button.

Instead of the plot and story pulling me in, the first couple of chapters actually made me dislike the main characters. Penelope (the heroine) didn't come across as "armed with a quick mind", but rather idiotic in her reasoning and actions (and the fact she was a city girl doesn't excuse her) and quite incompetent in handling her dog, making me doubt her ability for being in search-and-rescue.
Jay (the hero) also wasn't very likable. Sure, he lost a lot thanks to the heroine's idiocy and jumping to conclusions was understandable, still, his reaction seemed over the top and overblown.

The flow of the story was rather slow and poor with the narrative style concentrating almost pedantically on the minutae of her short stay in the state park, the little and rather redundant details...

Nothing really happened in the first few chapters (except for the heroine's idiotic move), nothing to grab my attention, nothing to make me interested in the characters...

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