It Happened on Thunder Road
by Susan Antony
GENRE: YA Fantasy
BLURB:
When Emmy Russo returns to high school in Moncks Corner, South Carolina after summer break, she discovers some changes. First: Mom has a boyfriend. Second: the cute new student, Charlie Fields, is a Rockabilly greaser with a gang who obeys his every command. Third: attractive Keir Harper wants to be more than just her best friend. And fourth: a perplexed Emmy soon finds herself drawn to two extremely different boys. How do you choose between sweet and smoldering?
Then tragedy strikes on desolate Thunder Road. Strange things start happening, with Emmy in the middle of it all. Intent on finding the truth, she must fight for her heart, her life, maybe even her soul. Because someone wants to possess all of Emmy. And they will be together, no matter what the cost. For eternity.
Excerpt:
Twenty-five feet ahead stood a bald cypress anchored in the lake by a heavy dome-shaped root system. Its narrow trunk stretched up toward the sky. The top branches were spindly and covered in a smattering of green leaves. Gray moss hung from the lower limbs and blew like tattered dishrags in the wind. I removed my shoes and dipped my toes in the water.
Keir stripped off his shirt, revealing his lean but muscular torso, smooth except for a scanty dark blondish-brown hair below his belly button. He knelt and dug inside his backpack and placed two bottles of water in the sand. Then he pulled out a towel, and my bikini fell out.
“Why don’t you put it on?”
My head ricocheted from side to side. “Where?”
He pointed at a nest of trees that lined the shore. “Over there.”
My pulse raced. “Someone might see me.”
“There’s no one out here but us.”
I stared at him wide-eyed while my feet grew roots deeper than the bald cypress in the lake.
“Give me a second.”
He disappeared under one of the tree limbs and strategically draped the towels around the shrubbery. Seconds later, he returned with a smirk.
“Not even the squirrels will see you now.”
I clutched my bikini to my chest, unstuck my feet, and ducked behind the towels, my composure but a fragile shell around me. Peeking over the top of the makeshift dressing room, I spread the bushes a bit. Keir had turned his back.
My Review:
Emmy Russo spent the summer with her Dad but now summer is over and it is time for her to return home to South Carolina to her mom and to school at Moncks Corner.
Upon her return home, Emmy finds that a lot of things have changed since she has been away. Her mom has a new live-in boyfriend, her best friend Keir Harper no longer wants to be just friends and there is a new hot guy in town who just happens to be Keir’s brother Charlie Fields.
Emmy has an immediate attraction to Charlie which she tries to keep to herself as she doesn’t want to hurt Keir. Besides deep down Emmy is not sure that Charlie is the right guy for her as he is known as a bad boy. Emmy soon finds herself in a predicament as she likes both Charlie the bad boy and Keir the good guy. How can she choose between bad and good, dark and light?
Then one night something awful happens on Thunder Road something that Emmy saw coming but believes she didn’t try hard enough to stop it. Afterward, strange things start to happen that Emmy can’t explain but she knows what she must do to stop it. She has to try harder this time. This time she will have to stop it no matter what it takes if she wants to save the one person she cares about the most and keep it from happening over and over again.
It Happened on Thunder Road is the first book by Susan Antony that I have read but I hope it won’t be the last as I plan on checking out her other books. It Happened on Thunder Road is filled with secrets and suspense from the first page to the last.
The twists just kept rolling out one by one building up and up until that final one slammed me in the face and left me with my chin hanging, it took me so much by surprise that I never saw it coming. The twists and secrets alone are enough to keep those pages rolling.
I would so love to see another book from this world to see what would come next. I would like to see where Keir and Emmy’s life goes after high school. Like if they would ever get a visit from someone from their past someone they never thought they would ever see again.
I would recommend It Happened on Thunder Road to anyone looking for their next great read. One-click your copy of It Happened on Thunder Road today if you are looking for a thrilling and dangerous ride!
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Susan Antony is an IT by day, hip-shaker and writer by night, artist whenever possible, and an
internet addict. She lives in the sunny south with her teenage son and two Cairn Terriers. Cherokee Summer placed first in the Missouri Romance Writers of America "Gateway to the Best" contest, was a 2019 OKRWA finalist, was a 2020 Author Shout Recommended Read, took 1st in the 2020 Write Touch Readers Award, and took the bronze metal in the 2020 Readers Favorite Contest.
It Happened on Thunder Road placed 1st in The Southeastern Writers Association 2020 Contest.
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3 comments:
Thank you for the fantastic review. If anyone has any questions I'd be happy to answer.
Sounds like a good read.
Sounds like a good book.
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