The Fugitive Wife: A Novel by Peter C. Brown

My review

rating: 4 of 5 stars
My local library featured a display of books associated with Jack London, wolves, Alaska and etc. during its "Big Read" campaign and the title and cover of this book caught my attention. I picked it up and read the blurb and decided to give it a shot.

I really enjoyed the novel and I would recommend it. I immediately liked the main male character, Nate, from the start and I also liked the main female character, Essie. The only negative thing I have to say about it is I always hate it when I'm reading a novel and I come to a part where I say to myself, "a man had to write this." I'm not a prude, but I really dislike gratuitous sexual inuendo. If you're going to write something sexual, I think it should have some kind of purpose and not just be there because it turns you on.

Toward the end of the book, I had to keep reading to see how it was going to turn out. I especially disliked one of Essie's (she is the main female character) decisions toward the end of the novel. I wanted to yell at her, "No!!! Don't do that!!! Have you not learned anything?!!!" But in the end, it turned out OK.

I would say more, but I don't want to give anything away.

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