The Mighty Storm (2 books)
BY: SAMANTHA TOWLE
✰✰✰✰✰ FIVE MIGHTY STARS
The Mighty Storm and Wethering the Storm, by Samantha Towle, are about Jake Wethers, lead singer of the international super-famous band The Mighty Storm (TMS) and Trudy (Tru) Bennett, music journalist. Here's the blurb for the first one: (you can basically see where it's going from there)
Jake Wethers, sexy, tattooed and deliciously bad lead singer, and brains behind The Mighty Storm, one of the biggest bands in the world, left Tru with a broken heart when he moved from England to America with his family when they were both fourteen.
Sent to interview Jake for her music column by the magazine she works for, they are both unprepared for the sparks that fly the instant they reconnect. Only, there’s a complication to their instant feelings for one another—Will, Tru’s boyfriend of two years.
Then Jake makes Tru a job offer she can't refuse—travelling the world with him and his band. But taking the job means leaving Will behind, and being on the road with the band means spending an inordinate amount of time with Jake.
Sent to interview Jake for her music column by the magazine she works for, they are both unprepared for the sparks that fly the instant they reconnect. Only, there’s a complication to their instant feelings for one another—Will, Tru’s boyfriend of two years.
Then Jake makes Tru a job offer she can't refuse—travelling the world with him and his band. But taking the job means leaving Will behind, and being on the road with the band means spending an inordinate amount of time with Jake.
Sooo.. yeahhhh...
What's Tru to do? I'd be all over Jake too!
"Jake - a sweet dream? Or a beautiful nightmare?"
Honestly, this was a reread for me. I saw back on goodreads that I'd given the books 5 stars, which is pretty rare for me, so I decided to reread the books once again. And it was amazing!! Jake and Tru are so sweet together; and I'm a sucker for rekindled romance, it's the absolute best! The writing was incredibly easy to follow, and it's first person POV from Tru's side. Buttt!! the second book has POV from Jake as well, not too much, but enough to make him even more swoonworthy than he already is!
The only thing that I didn't like was in the first book: the cheating. I don't tolerate cheating in "real life" and I really don't like to see it in books either - and Will was such a nice guy, Tru really hurt him. I didn't like the fact that after he found out that Tru and Jake were sleeping together behind his back he was made out to be psycho and the bad guy.. because he wasn't. I sympathize with him. I always say and I'll say it again: If you're thinking about cheating, break up with your current boyfriend/girlfriend first. It's not fair to them, and it's not fair to the person you're cheating with, and lastly, it's not fair to you. Sooo much can be solved with communication.
SEX.
ROCK 'N' ROLL.
DRUGS.
"Reznor's version or Johnny Cash's"
"Johnny Cash ... I have a few things in common with him."
"Like?"
"The drugs ... the women ... hanging out for the girl of my dreams ... you're my June, Tru."
I truly forgot how amazing these books were; a wild ride. You had the good, you had the bad. and you had a whole lot of in-between.
Best friends to lovers. "The word is that Jake has found 'the one'. His girl next-door."
Drama.
Traveling with the band. (And I'm not gonna lie, i love the groupies. The drama they bring, and the guy choosing his girl. Swoon. I'm such a girl.)
By the end, you really see that they both need one another to survive. Wait for itt.... : Their love is their drug. (clicheness ;) And trust me, I'm pretty feministic, independence and all, but here, it just worked. And this isn't real life, so bugger off.
Summary:
Book: The Mighty Storm, Wethering the Storm
Author: Samantha Towle
Steam (out of 5): ♥♥♥♥♥
Likeable characters: hero; Jake: ✓ , heroine; Trudy ✓ (she was kinda annoying in her head, but overall it wasn't too bad that you couldn't look past it)
Writing: amazing!
Was this a reread? Yes.
Other books in the series? Yes, Tom's book will be released this year!
Sex. Drug abuse. Death. Cheating. Rockstar lifestyle. Sex in public places. and Pizza Hut.
Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning
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