Dangerous Detour by Gail Pallotta Blog Tour Book Review

 

About the Book

Book: Dangerous Detour (Discipleship Series, Book 2)

Author: Gail Pallotta

Genre: Christian Romantic Suspense

Release Date: March 11, 2025

Four people face a winter storm in the wilderness. Two have lost their way. One has lost his purpose and one has lost his soul.

Headed home for Christmas vacation, Ruthie, a quiet professor, crosses paths with Moose, a football coach, on an icy, blocked road in Western North Carolina. Amid a winter storm, they unknowingly take shelter in a killer’s hideout.

Escaping under fire, they flee into a frozen, snow-covered forest. Trying to find their way out and shake the murderer, they dodge bullets each day until the temperature drops and the world turns quiet. Then, they set up camps to survive in the wilderness. Even though they grow attracted to each other, neither admits it until each of them suffers a frightening injury. Finally, they head to a house Ruthie sees in the distance.

Will they meet a new friend, or a foe?

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My Review

Pallotta takes readers into a suspense filled storm where Ruthie and Moose must outwit a killer to stay live. They had more resources than I would have thought. (How much could their bags really hold and not be too heavy to carry?) They also learned some wilderness survival skills. The experience changed their lives forever.

The characters were interesting and became more developed as the novel moved along. Moose was a football coach and Ruthie a grammar teacher. Who would have ever thought a mountain adventure would bring them together? I really liked Moose, a strong guy with broad shoulders. He had such a kind heart, helping those down on their circumstances.

Besides being a good survival adventure, there are examples of how God takes bad events and uses them for good. There are other good spiritual lessons too. Pallotta's writing style is straightforward and easy to read and the action might be a bit repetitive. Nonetheless, it is an entertaining novel.

My rating: 4/5 stars.

You can read my review of the first book in this series, Hidden Danger.

About the Author

Award-winning author Gail Pallotta’s a wife, mom, swimmer and bargain shopper who loves God, beach sunsets and getting together with friends and family. She’s a 2017 Reader’s Favorite Book Awards winner and a TopShelf 2020 Book Awards Finalist. She recently received a Top Author Certificate for her new book, Hidden Danger. She’s published seven books, poems, short stories and two-hundred articles. Some of her articles appear in anthologies while two are in museums.

  

More from Gail

People often refer to modern times as the post-Christian era. We’re blessed with wonderful ministers, missionaries and other Christian leaders. Unfortunately, many people never attend a church or any Christian gathering. Yet church goers see others on a daily basis—in a long line in the grocery, at a restaurant, a company or organizational meeting. How can we, Christians who have no formal ministerial training, help spread the Gospel?

Some clergy say unchurched neighbors who watch Christians get up and go to church every Sunday grow curious about Christianity. A man (I’ll call him Joe) recently wandered in a store looking at the merchandise and humming a hymn. A stranger asked Joe about the song. Joe ended up talking to the man about his faith and his church. Another person was asked how he and his wife had stayed married for so many years. He said, “We go to church together.” That’s a loaded statement with so many churches going in different directions. However, the conversation led to a discussion of a Jesus-centered church. The teaching and sermons there apply what Jesus taught about living a godly life rather than re-shaping his Gospel to suit our advantage in worldly situations. It’s often little opportunities we take advantage of that speak to a person. All of the above stayed on my mind for a long time. Usually, when something nags me, I write about it. Thus, a Discipleship Series began. Dangerous Detour is book two.

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I received a complimentary egalley of this book through Celebrate Lit. My comments are an independent and honest review. The rest of the copy of this post was provided by Celebrate Lit.

(My star ratings: 5-I love it, 4-I like it, 3-It's OK, 2-I don't like it, 1-I hate it.)