Manhunt

[rating:4/5]
Author: Janet Evanovich.
Narrator: C.J.Critt.
Category: Fiction
Publisher: HarperAudio.
Release Date: 2005.
Length: 4.5 hrs.
Unabridged.

An Overview:
Manhunt shows what happens when a top of her game business woman from Wall Street burns out and decides it’s time to settle down, buying a home in Alaska (where men outnumber women) and looking for the perfect catch.

Main Body:
Manhunt is another of Janet Evanovich’s romance titles. It surrounds the story of Alexandra Scott and Michael Casey. Scott is a business woman who has burned out on her job, wants to escape the rat race and leaves Wall Street behind to move to the Alaska wilderness. Her reason for choosing Alaska is the fact that men outnumber women by a wide margin, so she thinks it’s the perfect place to land the perfect man.

Once there she meets Casey who is a pilot. She’s immediately interested and ready to bag and tag this catch, but Casey isn’t quite ready to be caught. He likes being a bachelor. But her attempts to learn to rough it in the wilderness send her looking to him for help more often than not, and soon a connection between the two begins.

This book was a fun, escape for the day, read. This is from a time when Evanovich was a romance writer, not a mystery novelist. The book does not have a hard story line; so don’t get it looking for deep content. If you are used to the Stephanie Plum series of novels and that is what you think you want, this book may not be for you. Yet at the same time, it is sort of fun to see where the writer that created Stephanie, Ranger and Morelli came from. You can even see how she easily went from these early characters to the ones that are in her newer books.

She also does not have super steamy sexy scenes in her romance books. A lot is left to the imagination. This was really a fun book to read and was a relaxed diversion from the often more serious action filled books she writes these days.

The Narration:
Once again CJ Critt delivers a perfect performance of a Janet Evanovich novel. Critt has become a staple with these books, knowing just how to use inflection and accent to create each individual character that you can picture in your mind.

Audiobook reviewed by Michelle Murillo

Resources:
wikipedia: Janet Evanovich