This review is a bit late but the weekend was busy
for me and classes are winding down and I’m finally graduating from college at
the end of this month (YAY!), so I’ve been preparing for that.
Becca Chandler is
suddenly getting all the guys; all the ones she doesn't want. Ever since
her ex-boyfriend spread those lies about her. Then she saves Chris
Merrick from a beating in the school parking lot. Chris is different.
Way different: he can control water just like his brothers can control
fire, wind, and earth. They're powerful. Dangerous. Marked for death.And now that she knows the truth, so is Becca.
Secrets are hard to keep when your life's at stake. When Hunter, the mysterious new kid around school, turns up with a talent for being in the wrong place at the right time, Becca thinks she can trust him. But then Hunter goes head-to-head with Chris, and Becca wonders who's hiding the most dangerous truth of all.
The storm is coming.
Description taken from Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10401084-storm
My Review
I finished Storm
by Brigid Kemmerer a little while ago and completely fell in love with
it. The prequel novella, Elemental, sucked me into this new world
but Storm made me want to stay in it
and never leave.
Storm
follows
the youngest of the Merrick brothers, Chris, who can wield the water element and
Becca who just happens to be at the wrong place at the wrong time when she saves Chris from a brutal beating and is
unknowingly dragged into a war between two
families. The story is told in third
person and switches POV between Becca and Chris which definitely gives a great,
well rounded feel to the story. The only
thing I didn’t really enjoy was the telling of the story in third person. This is just personal to me, but I just feel
like you get more out of the story if it’s in first person. You can really get into the narrators head,
pretty literally, but this is just personal preference and it definitely didn’t
take away from the story at all.
This book absolutely delves right into the world and
we get a lot more information than we did in Elemental and I thoroughly enjoyed learning about it. I just couldn’t get enough of the description
when one of the brothers was using his element.
It was so interesting and so well thought out that I could practically
picture it in my mind and see it so clearly and now I want to be an Elemental because they made it so cool.
The romance was so well done and I do have to say
that there is a love triangle but don’t let that discourage you from reading
the book. This triangle was done astonishingly
well. I could picture Becca with both
guys and found myself completely torn because I loved both of them. I found myself loving Becca with Chris when
she was with him and then loving Becca with Hunter when she was with him. So, bravo Ms. Kemmerer, bravo.
The brothers made me love Storm even more. We’ve got
Michael, who we met in the novella and he definitely comes off as a douche but
when you realize what he has to go through to protect his family then I think
the douchiness (I know it’s not a word, just go with it) can be forgiven. Next are the twins, Gabriel and Nick, who
wield fire and air respectively, and these two are just…there are no words to
describe them.
I just loved them so much.
And at one
point, when Becca meets these two, I thought that she might end up with one of
them. That would have been interesting.
Everything about this book kept me hooked and had me turning pages as fast as I could and was so happy that I was reading it on my ipad because I could only imagine how many paper cuts I would have given my self if that weren't the case.
Storm
was
filled with wit and emotion and suspense and definitely had me guessing until
the very end and my mouth rightfully dropped open when the “bad guy” was
revealed. All I want to know is when I’ll
get my element. I’m pretty sure it would
be air. What would yours be?
I really can’t wait until I get my hands on the next
novella and full novel.
4.5/5 stars
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