This book is on fire!  Great story and characters and the storyline is very well paced.  I’d have liked to see what happens when Nick and Sarah get home, but hopefully that will be in a future book.  This is definitely a 5 star read!

DNF'd at 20%, wasn't a fan of the characters or plot. Not my cup of tea, my own fault for requesting a book I wasn't truly interested in.

Sarah is a new journalist, Nick a photographer and they are now paired on an emerging story of a rogue musician.  Funny romantic suspense that readers will enjoy.

This is my first book by Rebecca Freeborn.

What I liked:
The writing style

I had a hard time staying interested in this book.

This was a cute story.  It was a sweet surprise.  Sarah and Nick have chemistry,   Its always messy, awkward because Nick is also the best friend of Sarah's ex, the ex that took off without her knowing.  Leaving her with a mess of things.  There were lots of arguing, sort of childish tantrums, but overall cute story.

I was expecting an entertaining romance novel and while the mystery aspect is fun and slightly intriguing, I didn’t really enjoy the romantic storyline. Sarah is a good protagonist, smart and driven but maybe sometimes a little whiny, however, I really didn’t like Nick at all. He is too brash for my taste and I’m not sure what Sarah saw in him, which made me not so invested in their love story.

3.5 stars. Decent mystery with an Australian protagonist (so there was some Australian terminology), though the action takes place across Europe. I enjoyed the mystery/adventure for the most part. And I appreciated the protagonist's determination to get this story and be taken seriously as a journalist. The romance was too drawn out for me. The love interest was mostly unsympathetic - too cutting and antagonistic. Maybe if he had written a few of his own chapters and we had his perspective on why he was pushing her away, it might have softened him up and made him more appealing. (Language)

Sarah has had a rough few months in her love personal and professional life . She is thrown on a work assignment with Nick and it becomes quite an adventure . She and Nick have really never gotten along but out the together on a action packed mysterious adventure with a bit of romance and you have Hot Pursuit .
Michele McMullen

This was a great story with great characters. It flowed nicely without rushing the story. I really enjoyed this book and look forward to more from this author! Read it and you won't regret the time spent.

Rebecca Freeborn did such an amazing job developing Sarah! She's independent, driven, she's a human! Nick....oh he's a hottie!  Hot Pursuit is a great, feel good read that will have you smiling from page one!

If you love a bumbling heroine using her intuition to investigate a celebrity's tie to a murder, you will enjoy this book. Sarah, who has a low end job at a celebrity magazine, ends up with a chance in a lifetime. Nick, the photographer assigned to her, is not initially impressed with her skills. Nick is also best mates with her ex and a former one night stand. I received a free copy of this book from the publisher. This is my honest and voluntarily given review. This is an amusing romantic suspense book. Through intuition and bravado, Sarah finds herself into a much bigger story. I really enjoyed this book and hardly put it down. I look forward to reading the next Sarah book.

Oh wow I really love this suspense romance read, it's my first book from Rebecca Freeborn and definitely won;t be the last.

An unexperienced journo and a narcissistic photographer in a hot pursuit around europe to chase a fugitive musician story. Yes this book has interesting story. I thought this one is gonna be a fast-paced, easy-read sweet romance mix with suspense mystery. So glad that I was wrong, this book hit me with a lot of twists, there's always a surprise and more mystery in every corner.  There's more of suspense than the romance but hey I'm not complaining at all. This one is a thrilling suspense with a hint of second-chance and enemies to lovers romance, hahaah yeah it's a mouthful, but that's why I love it. 

As for characters, As an inexperience journo Sarah is really frustrating borderline reckless character, I get that everything is new for her, but it doesn't stop me wanting to yell at her most of the time that her decision is wrong, but this what makes me turn the page after page, wondering how she will survive this. And Nick, I'm not a big fan of this man at the beginning, he's such a d*ck, but in the end he kinda redeemed himself. These two is not your typical sweet couple, they're always fighting, the push and pull is exasperating, always butthead every step of the way, it's just like a real couple.

If you love secon-chance or enemies to lovers or suspense romance, I think you'll love this book.

I don't have much to write because it's been a while since I read it, but I really liked the story. 

I've seen a lot of bad or meh reviews about it, but I really enjoyed the pursuit and how I was kinda promised a romance with a rock star but got a star crossed kind of romance. 

It was really good, with maybe some small negative points, such as the source of the pursuit. I felt that there was missing some mistery, maybe. I liked the end, though. And I really want to read the next one.

Hot Pursuit had an interesting premise, but I didn't feel much of the book was believable. Sarah is out at a club and still not over her breakup when she meets a famous rock star, but she doesn't have any idea who he is. After he runs out of his hotel room on her, she finds out the next day at work that he's on the run. She tricks her boss into assigning her the story, and Sarah ends up heading to Europe with Nick, her ex's best friend. She and Nick criss-cross Europe looking for the rock star and trying to figure out the story. I felt like Sarah ended up in a lot of improbable/impossible/highly dangerous situations. The book was still enough to keep me reading to the end, and I will likely check out the next one just to find out what happens, but it's curiosity, rather than love of this book. I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is a lighthearted romantic caper with serious elements.  Sarah has just been dumped by a creep who left her with a mortgage she can't pay and she is already insecure about her job because she has ambitions to be a serious journalist but is not highly regarded at work.  When she encounters a rock star who is later accused of murder, Sarah seizes the opportunity to do a story on him but is forced to work with handsome Nick, a photographer with whom she once had a one night stand.  Surprisingly, each brings strengths to their partnership, and when Sarah's ex wants another chance, Sarah has to decide whether it is better to go to back to the known but unsatisfactory or see if there is any possibility of a relationship with Nick . . .

The actual pursuit of the missing rock star and the underlying criminal activity which he is involved in is not very plausible but is moderately entertaining.

Hot Pursuit wasn't exactly what I was expecting when I picked up this book. I thought it would be a light-hearted  chick-lit and I was eager to dive in and take a break from the thrillers that I had been binging on. I thought that this would be the perfect little escape, but the book ended up not being for me. It seemed rush, the writing style wasn't my cup of tea and the characters weren't particularly ones that I cared for. The character building seemed to fall very short. The storyline was too predictable and there wasn't much mystery at all. Hot Pursuit was very predictable and boring.

I received an #arc of this novel from #netgalley in exchange for a fair review. 
In the end I found this book entertaining, it was a light read that you can get through in a couple of hours.  The plot kept me engaged, even though it felt rushed and a little messy at times, I really liked one of the characters and I do see myself reading the next installment of the pursuits of Sarah Burrows.  That being said Sarah Burrows is not my favorite heroine, she is very annoying throughout the book, and super clueless when it comes to investigating and traveling, I don’t know what she would do without Nick at her side. However fate is at her side, she stumbles into information and by the skin of her incompetent teeth succeeds.  There were many times I could not believe such a person can exist, especially one who is an aspiring journalist, for example the whole bit about explaining what a drug mule was. Perhaps the author was going for comedy but I just found her even more annoying after the whole not having a smart phone bit, having to explain to her about google translate and google maps.  Nevertheless I do like her go-getter attitude, how she tricks her boss Katrina into giving her the job and keeps stumbling ahead to get the job done even though her personal life is not going great.  She has just been dumped by her long term boyfriend James and is having rekindling feelings for her one night stand and coworker Nick, my favorite character.    He is the character the reader knows our heroine will end up with at the end, the immature guy who realized too late he messed up and lost the girl to his mate, but now circumstances have put them together.  I really liked their chemistry together, their snarky comments to each other made my day.
I see lots of room for improvement and character development, I hope Sarah Burrows learns how to become a good journalist she aspires to be.  I do recommend this book to people who are in the mood for a quick lighthearted romance/mystery novel.

When you reach out for a book not knowing the author, but being aware that this book is a debut, you try not to have big expectations. You just simply start to read and wait to see whereit leads. That's what I did with "Hot Pursuit" and let me tell you what I think about it.

First of all, it was not exactly what I was prepared for. The blurb got me thinking about intrigue, a little bit of suspense, but still dominant was the romance part. What was waiting for me? Well, the romance part wasn't dominant, the intrigue was. But it should not be misunderstood! That was good! And I really liked that. 

What was a real surprise for me? I really had a problem to get to like Nick. For almost half of a book the romance part was really hard to proceed with or even to believe. Luckily, later was better and Nick was slowly getting over me. Sarah on the other hand ws really likeable and unique character. Totally broke, she is fighting for a better future.

"Hot Pursuit" was not the best book I've read. It has it's ups and downs. One of the biggest disadventages was romance. But it was made up by the author style. I really liked it, it was light, intresting and engaging. I am really curious how Rebecca Freeborn will suceed in next book!

I received a copy of this story from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is a book of extremes: extremely unrealistic plot, extremely inept journalist, extremely convenient lucky breaks/plot twists, extremely weird (and borderline offensive) male lead, extremely slow for such a bare-bones story, I could go on and on.

I get that not every story will be my cup of tea but the problem I have is that this sounded so promising and failed so spectacularly on execution! I don't know that Sarah could ever be called a proper journalist; she gets the story on luck alone. The human elements of fear and distrust are mostly ignored. All of her wallowing over James and her waffling over all the other love interests (and really, how many do there need to be in one story?!) are completely at odds with the "tenacity" she shows in going after the story.

And let's talk about these love interests for a moment. Chris makes sense. Some of the wallowing over James I can understand. But Nick is detestable. He's so awful, misogynistic, and downright mean that I hate Sarah for sticking around, even on a work assignment. He doesn't earn the moments of kindness he has because he's so hot and cold and TERRIBLE.

Please, save yourself the time and skip this one.

Sorry to say that this one wasn't for me. A convoluted plot and characters that acted like spoiled teenagers--not a recommended read!

Many thanks to NetGalley, the author, and the publisher for my ARC. All opinions are my own.