Runaway Fat by Elizabeth Hunter

Runaway Fate by Elizabeth Hunter
Book 1 of the Moonstone Cove series, a spin-off fro the Glimmer Lake series. Paranormal women’s fiction. While the characters from Glimmer Lake make an appearance, those books do not need to be read first unless minor spoilers are an issue.

While Katherine is at her gym working out, she experiences a vision of a student pulling out a gun and shooting people. Suddenly he’s there and reaching into his jacket. Katherine and two other women in the gym prevent the shooting and subdue him. But it’s not over. Katherine and her two new friends investigate another “worst nightmare” situation and find more than one connection and more than one student who doesn’t remember how they things went so wrong.

A strong and smart heroine with a successful career and a supporting spouse. She’s not sure why she’s getting visions suddenly but she doesn’t hesitate to act. I loved the building friendships of the three women after meeting at the gym and each manifesting some psychic ability. Just like in the Glimmer Lake series. I can’t wait to read the next book.

Immediately engaging, quick moving and fascinating.

I alternated between a paperback and audiobook. The narrator did a great job with voice variations and emotions.

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Just didn’t do it for me

I absolutely love PWF genre and so I try to read them when I find them. It started out with a bang but just kind of fizzled out for me. The middle was mostly eh and the end was good. It just seemed slow and just didn’t engage me. That being said there are things I liked. I love that she has a sweet loving husband because it seems to be a norm in this genre is that the main character is divorced or widowed. I also like that the circle came together because of the defining moment. While this is paranormal with the power, there aren’t things like vampires and shifters. It’s more of a cozy sisterhood read with out the romance. The narrator does a fine job of the different accents and being very consistent through out the story but over all it just didn’t do it for me.

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FUNTASTIC

The characters in this new series are awesome. I am so glad I listened to this gem. Ava Lucas does an amazing job Narrating. looking forward to next in series.

4 people found this helpful

Awesome book

Loved everything about it! Can’t wait for the next one. Once you start listening you can’t stop.

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Suspenseful and Superb

Loved it! This is my favorite Elizabeth Hunter book that I've read so far. A spine-chilling psychological mystery, a brilliant scientist protagonist (my favorite kind of protagonist), plot twists that keep you guessing, awesome female friendships and psychic powers! I cannot wait to dig into the next book in this series.

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great Series Starter

Kathrine's life changes at the gym. Kathrine has visions, Toni can move objects and Megan can make people feel what she feels. At first i didn't like Toni but i'm glad she came around and the three women became friends, Kathrine needed some. I like that Glimmer Lake is mentioned in the book. This book is easy to read and fun. I was hooked from the first chapter. I like Elizabeth Hunters writing, well done with this book. I highly recommend this book, probably this whole series.

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Tickle Me Pink Moments

The best part of this book are wonderfully quirky and unique characters. While they could be seen as caricatures at first glance you soon realize that they are fully formed well-thought-out people. The tropes the author uses end up feeling realistic and natural in a self-deprecating and smile out of the side of your mouth kind of way.

The story is also interesting and and wonderfully crafted to hold a bit of magic in the real world.

I enjoyed this book and will continue reading the next book in the series.

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I highly recommend this book/audiobook

Elizabeth Hunter has created another great series. The storyline was unique and the characters were developed and doom seemed more like friends than simply characters.
Ava Lucas gave a stellar performance as she brought the story together and gave it life. She gave each character a distinct voice so you could always know who was speaking.
I highly recommend this book/audiobook to fans of cozy fiction.

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Great intro to Moonstone Cove

There are plenty of things to like about Runaway Fate - the fast-paced and wonderfully written story, the paranormal, the mystery, the dialogue, the narrator, the characters - but my favorite thing to like is a heroine who is all grown up. Katherine is 45 and trying to figure out what's happening to her as well as how to tell her no-nonsense husband that she's having psychic visions. There's also a mystery to solve, so it's a good thing she's got Toni and Megan to help navigate their new reality. I enjoyed the camaraderie between these woman and how they're there for each other. Then there's Katherine's relationship with Baxter. These two have such a good relationship, and when she finally tells him about her visions is one of my favorite parts of the book. Ava Lucas narrates this first in the Moonstone Cove series, and she's a joy to listen to. She captures the emotion and mystery of the storyline wonderfully, and she keeps every voice distinctive.
Elizabeth Hunter is pretty new to me, but the more I see of her talent, the more I want to see. She's created a terrific group of characters here, and I can't wait to see where this series goes from here.

Great cozy mystery!!

This was an awesome story about 3 women who develop psychic powers in their 40s during a traumatic event. Now they are trying to find out who is behind all the deadly events that the college students are doing by using these powers.

I loved all three of the women's characters but i will say that Baxter stole my heart.

I received an audible copy of this and Ava Lucas, the narrator, did a great job changing up the voices for each character and bringing them to life!!

Loved this!

I received an ALC for my honest review!