Jennifer Robb's Reviews > Storm Front

The storms in this book are both literal and figurative. Ty Remington is part of a Search and Rescue (SAR) team. Brette, Jonas, Nixon, and Geena are a storm chasing team. Ty and Brette have a previous history, and their lives intersect again when a tornado hits near where Jonas and Nixon live.

The bad weather ruins country-star and sometimes SAR member, Ben's, plan to elope with his fiancee and puts Ben's father among the missing. Jonas's brother, a high school cross country runner who'd been out training, is also among the missing. Ty and the rest of the SAR group rush to the area to help find Ben's father and end up lodged with Jonas's family (and so are also pulled in to the search for Jonas's brother and other missing townspeople).

The plot takes many twists and turns where a certain person or group of people is found with the hope that all the others missing will be with that adult, only to find that it is not so. But the team does not give up until all the missing are accounted for.

At the same time, many of the characters are dealing with inner (figurative) storms. Ben is trying to balance his touring as a country star, which he feels he has to do to support his fledgling business, with being a father and wooing his soon-to-be wife. Ty is struggling with guilt over an accident that occurred while he was the helicopter pilot and hasn't been able to bring himself to pilot since. He's also struggling with his feelings for Brette (even before life throws them together again.) Brette struggles with being dependent on others (she doesn't like to) and also with concerns about her health and worries about recurrence--she can't quite bring herself to believe that she's beaten it. Kacey, Ben's fiancee, is struggling with her feelings for him and with his frequent absences and what that means for their life together. The postponements of their wedding leave her wondering if he's second-guessing their life together.

The author does a good job of balancing all these plot lines, creating and maintaining suspense, having some romance creep in, and having a storyline that doesn't get fully resolved so that there is a set up to the next book in the series, without having the reader feel cheated that there isn't an ending to that particular storyline. All-in-all, I found it a very satisfying read and hard to put down.

I received a copy of this book from LibraryThing Early Reviewers Program in exchange for an honest review.