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Into the Storm by Rachel Grant, Rachel Grant
5.0
Into the Storm is Xavier and Audrey’s thrilling romance, set in the Olympic National Park, where a routine SEAL team training doesn’t go according to plan.
Synopsis
Into the Storm jumps right into the Olympic National Park in the month of January where Dr Audrey Kendrick is hurtling toward something dangerous. The cameras she installed to keep a check on looters desecrating archaeological sites have stopped transmitting.
Then there’s Xavier Rivera, who may no longer be an active duty SEAL but is a trainer for a team who are about to start their training in frigid conditions with neither ammo nor comms.
But there seems to be a foreign presence in the forest, who are totally prepared to take down everyone and everything that stands in their way. Who are they and what is their agenda?
Review
This is my first read by [a:Rachel Grant|7035567|Rachel Grant|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1547769228p2/7035567.jpg] and what MINDBLOWING suspense she writes.
Audrey and Xavier have a bit of a past (the beginning of their story appears in Before the Storm [a prequel novella]), where she was betrayed by him in the worst possible way, which hurt her not only personally but professionally.
Narrated in the third person, Into the Storm is as thrilling as it’s emotional. With no one to share her pregnancy news with, and Xavier out there trying to save his teammates, it was terrifying to read about the situation Audrey found herself in as they face danger from unknown quarters.
With communications cut off, Xavier and Audrey need to rely on old-school methods to find the five other trainers and the sixteen SEALs who were part of the training in order to be better prepared to face their common enemy.
I love stories where the protagonists work together to defuse tough situations and this had Audrey and Xavier working together, what with her expertise of the location they are in, even when he’s concerned about her safety.
Purple is my favourite colour too, like Audrey’s, and I love collecting pretty purple things, ahem…
The author gives such a vivid description of the park and the rainforest that it all comes to life and makes the reader a part of it. The way the story was stitched together, it all came along so seamlessly. All the layers being revealed one by one made Into the Storm a hell of a journey.
I am in awe of Audrey, she’s so resourceful, brilliant, and always prepared for the worst circumstances.
There are so many beautiful moments even in the chaos, especially when Audrey and Xavier finally have a few moments to themselves.
There are scenes in the book where situations are so dire that they have to make a go for it with whatever they have at their disposal. While I would never want anyone to be in such situations, every damn bit of those made this story amazing.
It has a fitting end, a terrific climax, and a last-minute showdown that kept me on my toes and turning pages well into the night.
I’m in awe of Rachel Grant’s writing and want to read all of her books right now.
Check out one of the author’s websites: RATinformant.com (which is based on a previous book of hers).
Thank you to the author for an e-ARC of the book.
Originally posted on:
Shaina's Musings
Synopsis
Into the Storm jumps right into the Olympic National Park in the month of January where Dr Audrey Kendrick is hurtling toward something dangerous. The cameras she installed to keep a check on looters desecrating archaeological sites have stopped transmitting.
Then there’s Xavier Rivera, who may no longer be an active duty SEAL but is a trainer for a team who are about to start their training in frigid conditions with neither ammo nor comms.
But there seems to be a foreign presence in the forest, who are totally prepared to take down everyone and everything that stands in their way. Who are they and what is their agenda?
Review
This is my first read by [a:Rachel Grant|7035567|Rachel Grant|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1547769228p2/7035567.jpg] and what MINDBLOWING suspense she writes.
Audrey and Xavier have a bit of a past (the beginning of their story appears in Before the Storm [a prequel novella]), where she was betrayed by him in the worst possible way, which hurt her not only personally but professionally.
Narrated in the third person, Into the Storm is as thrilling as it’s emotional. With no one to share her pregnancy news with, and Xavier out there trying to save his teammates, it was terrifying to read about the situation Audrey found herself in as they face danger from unknown quarters.
With communications cut off, Xavier and Audrey need to rely on old-school methods to find the five other trainers and the sixteen SEALs who were part of the training in order to be better prepared to face their common enemy.
I love stories where the protagonists work together to defuse tough situations and this had Audrey and Xavier working together, what with her expertise of the location they are in, even when he’s concerned about her safety.
He smiled. Her strength never failed to impress him. And he was a monumental asshole for using her as he had.
Purple is my favourite colour too, like Audrey’s, and I love collecting pretty purple things, ahem…
The author gives such a vivid description of the park and the rainforest that it all comes to life and makes the reader a part of it. The way the story was stitched together, it all came along so seamlessly. All the layers being revealed one by one made Into the Storm a hell of a journey.
Hope was the only thing that kept incapacitating fear at bay.
I am in awe of Audrey, she’s so resourceful, brilliant, and always prepared for the worst circumstances.
There are so many beautiful moments even in the chaos, especially when Audrey and Xavier finally have a few moments to themselves.
There are scenes in the book where situations are so dire that they have to make a go for it with whatever they have at their disposal. While I would never want anyone to be in such situations, every damn bit of those made this story amazing.
She would not be the emotional female in this reunion of hypermasculine special forces operators.
It has a fitting end, a terrific climax, and a last-minute showdown that kept me on my toes and turning pages well into the night.
I’m in awe of Rachel Grant’s writing and want to read all of her books right now.
Check out one of the author’s websites: RATinformant.com (which is based on a previous book of hers).
Thank you to the author for an e-ARC of the book.
Originally posted on:
Shaina's Musings