Review: Hide Out
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 16, 2010
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. As the book description relates, it is the story of a cop that has to hide a witness, a mob leaders' son, so the cop, Peter, takes the witness, Trevor, to a house way out from the large cities (aka 'the Boondocks') that he planned to fix up and flip. The story evolves from there to a very innocent and interesting romance between the two as they start their renovation of the house to at least make it livable. They are soon joined by a "cop couple" who were friends of Peters.  They all manage to live in the semi-livable fixer-upper of a house complete with nosey neighbors. The characters of Peter and Trevor are very well developed and explored even more. The plot was a variation of a tried and true theme with an effective build-up that still held my interest. I did resent paying the $9.99 for the Kindle edition when there are just as good or better writers out there selling the same length books for a lot less.  I find that Katie Allen writes a lot like, if not identical to, Shayla Kersten (who is not priced as high, but almost). But still, I find I like the cop stories that bring the men to a more entertaining level.