About The Book:
Title: Storm Front
Series: The Charistown Series #2
Author: Lisa N. Paul
Published: January 2013
The Darker the Storm, The Deeper the Pain...
Love knows no bounds when two people are destined to be together. One fights to maintain the distance; while the other battles to close the gap.
The Brighter the Light at the End…
Will they move forward together or finally close the last remaining door to their past?
It’s time for Ryan and Ashley to decide. But once that decision is made, there will be no going back…
Always Reach for the Light…
A Neighborhood bar where old wounds heal, friends become family, and some…become lovers…
Danny’s on Main is where their story continues… Where they all shelter each other during the…
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Storm Front by Lisa N. Paul is the second book in her fantabulous series, Charistown.
Oh Holy angst-fest. This book was painful and heartbreaking and un-put-downable! We first met Ashley and Ryan in book one, Thursday Nights. They live together, are very close, but aren't a couple. Their friends are trying to figure out the dynamics to their relationship, but to no avail.
Rewind seven or so years, and we learn that they pretty much grew up together. Ryan was Ashley's brother, Leo's, best friend, and hers. Leo and Ryan were part of a band called Storm Front. Ashley and Ryan wrote lyrics together and sparks were flying. With Leo's approval, and subsequent pain of death threat should Ryan hurt Ashley, the two get together and are very much in love. Then, as it does in many storylines, tragedy strikes. It devastates Ryan and Ashley beyond repair.
The book then takes you ahead three years to see a reunion (of sorts) that lays the ground work for events we know took place from book one. And then ahead four years and we are in the same timeline as the first book. Very neatly skirting the relative corresponding events.
I love when a book can evoke that chest gripping pain you get when you hurt for the people you're reading about. Not because I like the pain so much as I know I'm reading a great book. Well-written and perfectly mated to the first book I can't wait to see what happens next with Kyle (Breaking to Breathe), although I REALLY want Gage's story too. Him and Lyla from book one...Phew! Bring it on Mrs. Paul - Bring it on! (please :-D)
Danny’s on Main is where their story continues… Where they all shelter each other during the…
My Review:
My rating: 5 of 5 starsStorm Front by Lisa N. Paul is the second book in her fantabulous series, Charistown.
Oh Holy angst-fest. This book was painful and heartbreaking and un-put-downable! We first met Ashley and Ryan in book one, Thursday Nights. They live together, are very close, but aren't a couple. Their friends are trying to figure out the dynamics to their relationship, but to no avail.
Rewind seven or so years, and we learn that they pretty much grew up together. Ryan was Ashley's brother, Leo's, best friend, and hers. Leo and Ryan were part of a band called Storm Front. Ashley and Ryan wrote lyrics together and sparks were flying. With Leo's approval, and subsequent pain of death threat should Ryan hurt Ashley, the two get together and are very much in love. Then, as it does in many storylines, tragedy strikes. It devastates Ryan and Ashley beyond repair.
The book then takes you ahead three years to see a reunion (of sorts) that lays the ground work for events we know took place from book one. And then ahead four years and we are in the same timeline as the first book. Very neatly skirting the relative corresponding events.
I love when a book can evoke that chest gripping pain you get when you hurt for the people you're reading about. Not because I like the pain so much as I know I'm reading a great book. Well-written and perfectly mated to the first book I can't wait to see what happens next with Kyle (Breaking to Breathe), although I REALLY want Gage's story too. Him and Lyla from book one...Phew! Bring it on Mrs. Paul - Bring it on! (please :-D)
About The Author:
Lisa N. Paul is a wife, mother, daughter, sister, friend, reader, writer, blogger, and self-proclaimed comedian—just not always in that order. Ever since she was a little girl, she has devoured books. Falling in love with the Sweet Valley High series at a young age drew Lisa to series books and inspired her to write her own. Thursday Nights is the first book in her Charistown series.
When not writing, Lisa can be found eating french fries and Godiva raspberry truffles, or hanging out with her husband and two sons.
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