Review: "Captivating Bridge" might be my new favorite Tempest!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 4, 2014
I have made no secret how much I love Michelle Mankin's Tempest Series. To look and see that even after War's story, we will be getting four more lovely installments to this series just makes me over the moon giddy!I gotta admit, when I first went into this series, I thought the whole bad boy rocker thing had been played out. But honestly, Michelle's characters are so much different! It's not about the money or the fame, she still brings it back to family roots, long standing friendships and the much required - happily ever after at the end.What I have loved about her characters too is that she gives them real life problems. Just because they are rich or handsome doesn't mean they are immune. Additionally, just because they are rich, doesn't mean they are throwing it around on ridiculous crap either.Michelle's characters make you have to love them. Even when they say or do some of the most ridiculous things ever, you just honest to goodness can't love them any less. These boys weasel their way into your heart and then they bring along the girls that they have fallen in love with.I was seriously looking forward to War's story. He is such an angry and self-destructive man. Decisions he has made over and over are so built on anger, hostility and pain. When Brian and Lace took him for a ride in "Irresistible Refrain," you couldn't help but worry that he would never be the same again.In "Captivating Bridge," Michelle gives us a seriously in depth look into War's mind. With alternating POV's between himself and the beautiful and talented Shaina, I felt like I got an entire love story, not just one sided.The chance encounter that brings the two of them together and the subsequent drama and heartache were absolutely moving to read. Shaina's character is so bruised by tragedy that she's completely unable to hold on at times. When we are forced to watch the struggle between War's cold exterior and Shaina's driving need to be needed, it literally made me ache.I have to say, I loved both books so far but "Captivating Bridge" might be my new favorite. I just love War and swear you will too!