Enjoyed this book as a cozy little easy read. I do struggle with so many characters but think I just about kept up!
Loved the “senior citizen” humour. A really fun read.

This is an honest review written in exchange for the ARC I was given.

Gwen Florio's "A Senior Citizen's Guide to Life On The Run" is a delightful cozy mystery that offers a refreshing take on the genre, Its not often that a group of active and daring seniors are the protagonists. The novel follows Alice Sanders, a retired elderly woman living a quiet life in a senior community in New Jersey, until her past catches up with her following the murder of her neighbor. Accused of the crime, Alice enlists the help of her friends – Mia, Sasha, and George – and they embark on a wild adventure to clear her name and uncover long-buried secrets. The characters are both lovable and quirky. They manage to have great banter throughout this book. This is written in an alternating format, between the main story and the police interviews which helps make this such an enjoyable read. Character development is well done throughout the story. I thought this book was a fast paced fun read,, It’s a worthwhile read for anyone looking for a lighthearted escape with lovable characters and a touch of adventure.

I so enjoyed A Senior Citizen’s Guide to Life on the Run by Gwen Florio. So many ways to describe this book. Entertaining, well-written, great plot, good dialogue. And…thoughtful and descriptive, with great characters.

The story is told using a somewhat different approach. The chapters that are relating the story are interspersed with police interviews involving the various characters, at various times. I really liked this format, although I will concede that not every reader will agree with me.

The story revolves around a small group of residents who have been living in a senior housing neighborhood. Nothing fancy. Just a place they can each call their own. Until the rates on the land they lease start to climb and one by one, their neighbors are forced to leave. That’s when a murder occurs and one of the seniors has to go on the run and her friends are, for the most part, willingly involved.

There seems to be an on-slaught of books with senior citizens in the spotlight. Some of these books are a little insulting to our seniors and some are pretty shallow and seem to want to dwell on the foibles of old age. But, Ms Florio’s book avoids these irritating pitfalls and spins a story that definitely held my attention.

Thank you, Ms Florio, for writing such an entertaining book. Hats off to you. NetGalley provided an advance reader copy.

A Senior Citizen's Guide to Life on the Run had so much potential but I dont think it lived up to it. 40% in and I still didnt know who the characters really were and their relation to each other. I loved other senior themed mystery books but this one just didnt gel as much for me. I think it would have helped to have more in the beginning about their book club and connections before throwing them into the situations.

Sometimes as a reader, you just need a palate cleanser. This was perfect for that. Great group of found family characters that you want to root for. Soem of the writing felt a little pedantic at times but all in all, it was a good time.

Loved this book. Quirky & fun read. Very light with short chapters. This book has humor, sass & action. Love reading about Seniors who still have "it!"
Thank you to @netgalley for the advanced copy of this book. 3.5 🌟 rounded to 4

Alice Saunders is finally settling into her life of retirement -- if only her neighbor, Babs, would stop feeding the pigeons. When Babs is found dead, Alice panics and finds herself fleeing from the crime scene and her past, along with some other friends from the retirement home. This was a fun premise -- I really enjoyed seeing this group of friends figuring a way out of this situation while also uncovering Alice’s past. It was interesting to see their plans of escape play out and the interview sessions with the police. Overall, this was a lighthearted, cozy read.

It starts as a standard cozy and - ZAK - a twist plot bring you to faced another face of a character and something unexpected.
It was an exciting and fast paced story, it kept me guessing and hooked.
I loved Alice and the senior and it was an excellent read.
Well done, highly recommended
Many thanks to the publisher for this ARC, all opinions are mine

Hilarious, heartwarming, and totally unexpected 👵💼. A Senior Citizen’s Guide to Life on the Run is a quirky, feel-good adventure full of humour, second chances, and lovable characters. Gwen Florio delivers a fresh, empowering story about reinvention, resilience, and living life on your own terms. I adored the laugh-out-loud moments and uplifting message. Perfect for fans of offbeat, character-driven fiction.

A death at the Timeless Pastures retirement community leaves resident Alice worried. Babs had been murdered but perhaps the killer mistook her for a different resident. Fearing the police and fearing her past being revealed, Alice decides to hit the road. But she is part of a community with friends and they aren't going to let her run off alone. So they decide to take a road trip.

This is a FUN read with good characters and a good story. Very enjoyable and a quick read. Enjoyable from start to finish.

Thank You NetGalley and Severn House for the advanced digital copy in exchange for my honest views

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this e-arc in exchange for my honest review.

This was such a cute and funny read. I found myself hooked from the beginning. A sweet little old lady with a criminal past... being brought down by pigeons!

This was entirely unrealistic yet it was entertaining!

A super fun read with lovely characters and hijinks!

✨ Characters
Main character was Alice, a senior citizen who spent her life on the run after events that had gone sideways in her youth. Her friends George, Mia and Sasha aid in her story, showing friendship and support in her quest to escape her past.

I loved that each one was a unique mix of reckless and life experience which made for a fun, diverse and over the top group of grandparents on an adventure. I absolutely adored the stubborn streak still going strong in each of them and how in combination with their mature age gave a lough out loud yet too-close-to-home feel .

The manager of the properties was a fun character as well as his extremely lax attitude of "yeah, sometimes the residents do weird stuff but just roll with it".

The noisy neighbour character was so annoyingly well written, felt like it described my own. So did the duplex neighbour that always had something to complain about - enough to consider imparting a bit of mischief on them 😈 , not going through with it but also becoming the likely suspect of having done it, which is how the plot events are set in motion.

✨ Plot
Decent plot, in line with a comedy / thriller vibe, but the relationships between the main characters take center stage for me, the way they are committed to sticking together and and sticking up far each other.

✨ Unique aspects of this book
- really enjoyed how the MCs negociate and solve conflicts among themselves
- enjoyed the short chapters format, felt like I breezed through the book
- the police interview snippets at the end of every chapter made for a movie-like feel

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to review this book!

What a fun read! This had some great characters and an interesting premise with a few hard-to-believe moments but otherwise was thoroughly entertaining. The seniors themselves were savvy and well-developed making it easy to distinguish between them. The interviews with the police that were added at the end of each chapter, while they helped with the character development, were unnecessary and took me out of the story. This was a fun read once the story got moving.

Thank you NetGalley for this arc!!

This book was such a fun read, who knew senior citizens could be so daring?

There is something very special about being old enough to remember political activists of the 1970s who turned to violent forms of protest. Reading this novel, stories of the Weathermen and Patti Hearst came to mind. A Senior's Guide to Life on the Run is so delightful an ensemble of characters and such an engaging story of friendship, resilience, ingenuity, a dash of stupidity and written in a funny, consistently entertaining way that I commend it to everyone. A group of four friends face their last hurrah, a weekend away before they split up, forced to leave their affordable senior living homes in the New Jersey Pine Barrens due to rising lot costs. A murder of a neighbor causes investigators to learn more about their pasts than one of them would prefer. And she''s the one who had a present day fight going on with the victim over her feeding pigeons that trashed our heroine's yard.

And so the four friends, a former Vietnam Vet/School Principal, a former Yoga instructor, an African American former real estate agent and our heroine, a former any job she could get on the run conspire and investigate and find a couple of people on their side and a villain. We also meet two amusing police officers who tip us off that eventually the law catches up with you. We get to read their interviews of our cast of characters and expose the pair's own sibling like relationship and personalities as they shake their heads at the lack of judgment these elders seemed to have exhibited and squabble over the other's interview skills.. It's a great story and a perfect "I need something light and escapist to read." Enjoy!

A funny cozy mystery with an older woman as the sleuth. This is the perfect book to curl up with. It's witty and engaging, a little predictable, but within its genre it makes sense.

I didn't make it far in this book. I did not enjoy the writing style at all and could not connect to any character. I really wanted to like this book from the synopsis, but unfortunately, it wasn't for me. Thank you, NetGalley and Severn House, for the opportunity to read and review this advanced copy.

Such a quick and FUN read! It had humor, sass & action. I didn’t realize this was a series, so I’ll definitely check out more of them. Thank you for giving me a lighthearted escape!

It is so refreshing to read a book in which almost all characters are senior citizens – and not just the kind that spends their day knitting and drinking tea. The senior citizens who live in Timeless Pastures certainly not. They are too busy worrying, in fact. They all have financial problems due to the fact that one of them lost all their retirement money five years ago and now, with the new owner of the community steadily raising the rent, most inhabitants are forced to move away. The four couples that play a main role in this story not – yet! Without the women aware of anything, the men devised a plan to get all the money back – and then some.
Of course things go wrong, especially when it comes to light that one of the seniors is in fact on the FBI’s most wanted list and the clever plan of the men to get their money back falls flat. So, the four couples are forced to literally run for their life before the past of one of them caughts up with the whole group.
Most of the characters are quite sympathetic if not downright very nice, and the bad characters are equally well described. I liked the writing style and the pace of the story too, and the plot, actually two plots coming together, was nicely found.
Thanks to Severn House and Netgalley for this review copy.

3.5 ⭐️ rounded up to 4.

A senior citizen’s guide to life on the run was an interesting and funny read. Figured the mystery out pretty early on. The characters felt flat and the book left something to be desired.