Riding the Storm

So good!!!

I have literally been dying to get started on this book for a while now. This story was really good, a men who can control the weather and whose sexual desires intensify just as the weather around him. But then, he meets Haley who's destined to more than just help his recruitment for the Agency she for for. ACRO. I can't put this book down.
I'm really looking to book two and can't wait tor read more about the world created by Sydney Croft.

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Mmmmm, mmmmmm good!

How great would it be to control the weather? And, if you could control the weather, Mother Nature caused you to become very horny. So horny that in the past none of the women you were with could handle your voracious nature. Welcome to Remy's world! Remy, an ex Navy Seal, is being recruited (unbeknownst to him) through sex to join ACRO (an organization that employes many operatives with special powers). That is just the beginning of the story. We meet many characters, many of whom are really quite intriguing, that I am hopeful we'll learn more about as this series continues. As for book one, mmmm, mmmm, good!

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A reviewer

To start with this review needs a little background information. Sydney Croft is the pseudonym 'or pen name' of two romance authors, Larissa Ione and Stephanie Tyler, neither of which I had read before this book. The premise is amazing! A sexy female parameteorologist, Haley, is sent to 'acquire' a man who can control the weather, an ex-navy SEAL with old school superhero like powers, for a top secret organisation called ACRO. A man who is also as insatiably hungry for certain 'thrills' when severe weather is upon him, whom she has to seduce before the evil corporation Itor gets a hold of him and uses his powers to wipe out most of the United States. What more could you ask for in an erotic romance book? Suffice to say I have been wanted to read Sydney Croft's first book since I found out the authors were writing the third one in the series for a challenge I was participating in with them. But I was scared it wouldn't live up to my expectations. As luck would have it, I received an email from Larissa Ione asking me if I wanted a copy of 'Riding the Storm' - I actually bounced up and down on my chair after I managed to pull my chin off the floor. I had entered every known competition I could find to win the darned thing, because it sounded so good, and Larissa's message was a lifesaver. She had noticed I kept entering, and kept losing, and decided to send me a copy 'with a nice bookmark and two magnets - and it was signed!' because she is that nice. She also asked if I wouldn't mind writing a review for her on Amazon or Barnes and Noble 'well there had to be a catch' and to be as honest as I liked. Well, here it is, a full review. To say I enjoyed it would be an understatement, the characters and word-building were unsurpassable and had a subplot well woven in. My main complaint however is the fact that the subplot detracts from the drama and action of the main plot, often jarring you away from an emotive previous scene. Often it was after a 'big reveal' moment, such as when T-Remy finds out why Haley is really at his house, instead of continuing the tough atmosphere of his barely contained fury we switch away to a completely different scene. While the main plot of T-Remy's and Haley's attraction is brilliantly written, enough that you couldn't tell who wrote what 'despite me knowing' the chapters and sections of other ACRO agents actions often sounded like another book. The sub-characters, Annika and Creed, are on a mission too and the sections have all the clues of a second book with these two coming together as the main characters. We are also given lots of background information on all the characters involved in the story, and are given a plethora of minor characters to focus on to draw attention away from the main plot. This is possibly to draw out the suspenseful moments that often accompanied the end of a chapter, but I found myself almost wanting to skip these segments to see what action I was 'missing' with the main plot. Despite my complaints, the subplot and minor characters eventually do play a major role in the climax of the book, so to speak, which wouldn't have been as successful without the build up of their characters throughout the novel. The cut away scenes were successful in at least making me continue reading until I finished 'I think I only put the book down once', and keeping the high level of emotion throughout. The love scenes are well crafted and intense and the whole book fits seamlessly together, and despite the two authors, has a consistent voice throughout. I highly recommend this book, I am definitely buying the second one when it comes out and if it is half as good as this one, it'll still be one of the best books I've read.

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

Awesome action romance

I'll never see storm clouds or feel a storm wind on my cheek without thinking of Remy. The characters come alive. Gripping from begining to end. Everything is wonderfully descrptive. I'm not a swamp kind of girl but this book yet again reminds me that I should take a trip to the bayou and find my own cajun military man. Preferable one who can control the weather like Remy.

1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

vary good!!!!

i liked reading this book, it was kinda different and it move quickly. very good i would recommend this to young adults

Highly Recommend

Loved it! An amazing story of two destined to meet! Sydney Croft has created a mysterious physic world that captivates! I couldn't put the book down once I started.

Don't wait to start this!

Like other reviewers, I have been looking at this series for a while. Why I haven't picked it up before now I'm not sure, but it has been on my list of future reads for some time. The only disappointment is that I didn't start on it sooner! The characters and the world that these authors have created are incredibly consuming. I didn't want to put the book down.

Riding the Storm

The first in a series of characters with extraordinary talents. In this one, Remy, an ex navy seal can control storms....This book is HOT!

exhilarating romantic fantasy

Only a desperate call from his dad would bring former navy SEAL Remy 'T-Remy' Begnaud home especially in this horrendous weather. Although the truth is hurricanes do not disturb him as he has created some nasty storms in his life with his power to control the force of a storm. However, what does bother him is that parameteorologist Haley Marie Holmes is waiting for him at his father¿s house. She tries to persuade Remy to let her and her paranormal skilled operatives help him harness his power, but fails even when she tries seduction as the electricity between them ignites the Bayou. Instead he attempts to defuse his power on his own, but instead T-Remy unleashes his gift. Now he needs Haley and her associates to help him harness his out of control storm that makes Katrina look like a drizzle. --- This exhilarating romantic fantasy creatively uses paranormal meteorology skills to tell the tale of people with the ability to control the weather. The key to this superb thriller is the flaws each of the lead pair has in their make-up especially that of T-Remy who wants nothing to do with his power yet finds he is in the eye of the storm. Haley is pulled in two directions as lightning strikes her heart with her attraction to Remy, but is assigned to bring him in voluntarily or not. Fans will enjoy this fine weather thriller although some subplots are left out in the rain for apparently future parameteorological tales. --- Harriet Klausner

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