Review: Brilliant!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 27, 2014
I read a brilliant book and then see that the author has written a second book, a follow on book. I actually feel slightly sick. Yes it’s great that there’s another book featuring brilliant characters, but what if it doesn’t match up with the first? What if it’s absolutely terrible or the author changes a character’s traits?That’s how I felt when I started Bastian’s Storm. To me, Surviving Raine was a fantastic book and I really couldn’t believe the author could write a second book as good, as encapsulating…..but Ms Savage did!!In Surviving Raine, Bastian was fighting for survival, his and Raine’s. His natural survival instincts kicked in and he used all of his extensive knowledge to get through the shipwreck to the rescue.In Bastian’s Storm, once again he was fighting for survival but the difference was, he was fighting for the survival of his family. The love he had for Raine and Alex made him much more of a determined man, a better man.Ms Savage, I take my hat off to you. You have done a brilliant job of bringing alive two characters…one I want to be, and one I want to (censored) lol You are an excellent storyteller and use just enough descriptive writing to set the scene….you don’t take a hundred words when only twenty will do. You make those twenty count. I felt everything Bastian was going through. I felt his separation pain, his physical pain, his frustrations, and his helplessness. I wanted him to succeed, I was rooting for him; I was unable to put the book down til I got to the end.Fan-flipping-tastic!!