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Title: Crosswinds

Author: Elisabeth Naughton

Narrator: Natalie Ross

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-26-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Secrets, Sex and Scandals....

Welcome to Storm, Texas, where passion runs hot, desire runs deep, and secrets have the power to destroy.... Get ready.

The storm is coming. Lacey Salt's world shattered with the death of her brother, and now the usually sweet-tempered girl is determined to take back some control - even if that means sabotaging her best friend, Mallory, and Mallory's new boyfriend, Luis.

Members Reviews:

The teen angst episode of the series...

This episode of Rising Storm is the teen angst episode. I'm fairly outspoken on how much I tend to hate teen stories on televised soaps. They always seem to be full of vapid characters that aren't acted particularly well, nor are the stories all that interesting to me. They never were, even when I was I was teen watching these stories.

The nice thing about reading a soap in book form is that instead of relying on often mediocre actors to portray complex emotions, the author allows us to be inside the character's head and we can understand what they're feeling. Elisabeth Naughton does a great job at this. I could empathize with each of the teen characters in ways that televised soaps rarely can do.

Note that even though I empathize with these characters, that doesn't mean I like them. A fair number of them I want to slap silly with their idiotic motives. But, then again, I was also kind of an idiot as a teen, too. It's much easier to judge when you're outside the world inhabited by the characters.

The one thing I really loved about this book is how well each chapter built up to the conclusion of the book. I'll leave out spoilers, but every single moment led up to a fight between two sisters that will probably leave them both scarred for some time and will change their relationship forever. And the very end of the book is so deliciously overdramatic that it made me long for the good old days of soap operas on television.

While I really enjoyed this book, I have one minor quibble about the writing, and I only noticed it because a lot of the book took place in cars. Nearly every time a car started or stopped moving, it was written that the car was "shoved" into drive or park. While it does give a great visual of the action, it also felt overused, especially in such a short number of pages. But that's the only thing I have to complain about with the writing. Otherwise the characters were well-written, and I look forward to learning more about them. Especially Jeffry Rush. I think he's going to have some interesting stories coming up. Or at least I hope he does.

I'd highly recommend this book, but I'd caution that you should read the first two prior to reading this one. It's probably not absolutely necessary, but it'll fill in some of the backstory for you. On to the next one!

Excellent New Series

This episode brought me right back to high school (which was a really long time ago) and all the âbestâ friend dynamics that go right along with it. I had to shake myself out of the bad memories a few times just to get through the book. Oh to be a young, foolish and stubborn teenager again.