Abducted Book Review

Book Description

After solving the mayor’s murder and exposing corruption among the top brass in Las Playas, Carly Edwards is happy to be back on patrol with her partner, Joe, putting bad guys behind bars. For once, everything in life seems to be going right.

But then everything starts going wrong. Slow to recover from an injury, her ex-husband, Nick, begins pulling away just as they were starting to get close again. Meanwhile, when Joe’s wife lands in the hospital with a mysterious illness, their baby is kidnapped. As Carly chases down every lead in a desperate search to find the baby, her newfound faith is pushed to its limits.

This is book #2 in the Pacific Coast Justice Series.

My Thoughts

Being a mom of 2, I have few opportunities to read a book from cover to cover in 24 hours or less…but I found such an opportunity with this suspenseful novel!

Abducted is every mom’s worst nightmare – your baby, kidnapped – and that’s just what happened in the first few chapters. What begins as a frantic search to find this baby turns into an interconnected story of petty thieves, wannabe crime lords, and a foster girl that’s caught up in a race to save her life. I love how Janice wove all these character’s stories together, and I could not stop reading until the very end.

It’s been years since I read the first book in the series, and I’m glad I went back and reread my review of it. I was anxious to see if any of the things that turned me off would be present in the second installment, and thankfully, they were not. The only thing that bugged me (and just barely, at that) was Andi’s character. For about two-thirds of the book, I could not understand why she was even a supporting character. She constantly rags on Carly for her newfound faith in Christ, and she does not trust Nick. At all. Only as the story is starting to reach the climax does her character start to become more relevant, and I was glad that she and Carly were able to lean on each other for support.

All in all, this was a fantastic, quick read that kept me on my toes throughout. I’m anxious to read the final installment soon!

My Favorite Segment

“God doesn’t ask for perfect people. He doesn’t even demand perfect faith. We can’t be good enough or perfect enough. We have to trust Christ to be good enough for us.”

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