Hawkins, Rachel. (2025). The Storm. St. Martin’s Publishing Group.
Take an internal and external journey in The Storm. The location of this story takes place in a town called St. Madard’s Bay, Alabama. The home of multiple hurricane’s. Is this town cursed or blessed? Time will tell. This journey takes a deep dive into the lives of four women and how there are connected through slips and knots. The decisions of the past keep them rooted in time. Rachel takes you through the past and into the present. The weaving of time and space will take you on a journey you will want to hold onto your seat for. The current owner of Rosalie Inn struggles with identity and meaningful choices as the truth of the past becomes to surface. As a reader, you will question who is right and authentic the more they learn about the choices made in the past. The Storm will have you questioning your true feelings. If you want to question who you are in tough situations this is the book for you. What choices would you make?
Discussion:
I personally find this novel to be fiction, thriller, and a tad mysterious. There are moments where you question people’s motives, their choices, and what is truly happening in the story (past or present). I believe that a novel under the adrenaline genre will make the reader at some point feel like they are uncovering a mystery that they shouldn’t have any knowledge about. The dramatic irony will make the reader bite their fingernails, pace their living room, sit on the edge of their seat in anticipation of the characters finding out the truth. I find this genre can allow for uneasy feelings that will affect the way your thoughts unravel even after the reader has finished the book. If the reader enjoys an impressionable ending that may not be warm and fuzzy, this is the genre for you. The story starts slower and begins to pick up speed throughout the book until it hits you in the face.
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