I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
Storm Fall by Tracy Banghart Series: Diatous Wars #2
Published by Alloy Entertainment on 2014
Read it as: eARC
Source: Netgalley
My rating:
Check it out in Goodreads
Synopsis
In the action-packed sequel to Rebel Wing, Aris battles for life and love . . . and not everyone will survive.
Aris Haan gave up everything to join the Atalantan Military: her family, her boyfriend, even her identity. In the end, though, it didn’t matter that she was a war hero. When the all-male Military discovered that she was actually a woman, she was sent home and erased from history.
Now she has a chance to go back to the battlefield—as herself. But as hard as it was to be a soldier in disguise, it’s even more difficult now. The men in her unit undermine her at every turn. The Safaran army has spies everywhere, perhaps even on Aris’s stationpoint. And she’s falling for her mysterious superior officer, Milek. But their relationship is forbidden, just stolen moments between training sessions and missions. There’s no room for love in war.
Then Aris discovers that Safara’s leaders have set their sights on her, Atalanta’s hero. And she must find them before they find her . . .
The book picks up two months after Ari saves Ward Vadim, and now, the women that had been serving in the army in disguise, can now do so freely.
You can imagine that not everyone is happy about that.
I loved that.
Men’s status as the only ones who can fight has been set aside. Say hi to a great cast of strong women who have, and will continue to show their worth.
Storm Fall weaves the stories of Ari, Dysis, and Galena into one book that is packed with just enough romance to make me happy, action to have me smiling like crazy, and surprises that I’ll just mentally fangirl about.
That’s the awesome thing about this novel. The ‘Wow’ effect doesn’t come just from one aspect. It’s the whole that makes it very complete and satisfying.
I usually don’t feel confortable reading books written in the Present tense, but I enjoyed this one because it was done skillfully. I barely noticed I was even reading, and that’s definitely a bonus.
Again, I have to praise this idea because lately, the trend in YA books have been that it’s so awfully romantic that the hero saves the heroine, and then at the end, the heroine is so all-powerful and emotionally strong she no longer needs saving.
In this series, even in the beginning, Aris has always been trying to save everyone, even though her personality then, needed a lot of work. War toughened her up. As someone who is writing a character that goes through more or less the same process, I was awed by this. Aris really doesn’t need her love interest. But she’s in love, so why not?
ARIS CAN LIVE A HEALTHY AND HAPPY LIFE WITHOUT LOVE INTEREST, but she chooses not to, and they both enjoy their moments together.
Neither of them are so dependent of one another that they’d kill themselves if they don’t have each other, which is what authors that write romance novels for teens should promote.
People die. Things happen, and everyone thinks all is okay.
But, the truth is nothing but.
Hee hee.
See you in the third book!
Leave a Reply