Storm Season edition by Pene Henson Romance eBooks
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The great outdoors isn’t so great for Sydney It-Girl Lien Hong. It’s too dark, too quiet, and she’s certain a giant spider is going to sneak into the tent she’s sharing with friends on her way to a New South Wales music festival. To make matters worse, she’s been separated from her companions and taken a bad fall. With a storm approaching, her rescue comes in the form of a striking wilderness ranger named Claudia Sokolov, whose isolated cabin, soulful voice and collection of guitars bely a complicated history. While they wait out the weather, the women find an undeniable connection—one that puts them both on new trajectories that last long after the storm has cleared.
Storm Season edition by Pene Henson Romance eBooks
[Review also appears on my blog, Friend of Dorothy Wilde]Pene Henson's Storm Season evokes everything I love from those books I spent so much time tracking down--sweeping descriptions of the natural world, cheeky humor, breathless emotion--with a modern sensibility around life, love, diversity, and doing what's right over what's easy.
The last thing party girl and journalist Lien wants is roughing it in the woods on the way to a festival, even with her best friends, but she rethinks her feelings about the outdoors when a freak storm washes her right into the arms of Claudie, strapping forest ranger with a mysterious musical past. Their passion blooms as the tropical storm rages, but what will become of their feelings when both return to their real life?
Pene Henson is a new author, and one that I am so glad to be introduced to. Her writing is quick, lyrical, gently funny, and emotional just when it needs to be. Every character is a dear, even the ones with barely half a dozen lines, and their identities reflect a modern, non-homogeneous Sydney. Even better, this is a story where the answer isn't giving up what anyone loves to be with a person--it's about finding oneself and striking it out on your own, and how that can make love grow all the better. A gem, one I will be returning to during the rainy NYC summer.
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Storm Season edition by Pene Henson Romance eBooks Reviews
I have been so eagerly waiting for this novel for months. Henson’s previous novel, Into the Blue is a deep favorite of mine – both because she made me fall for the characters so easily, but because I am absolutely in love with her craft.
Storm Season is a gorgeous work of art. Here we have a plot that could easily devolve into a series of cliché tropes. Rather, Henson takes these themes and tropes women who seem to be opposites at first glance; stranded in a cabin during a storm; the transformative power of particular human interactions, and makes them unique and believable and fresh.
Henson’s writing style is deceptively simple. She often employs short sentences, descriptions in what could easily be staccato or disjointed moment. Rather, she uses this skillfully to draw the reader in. It has the effect of stripping a layer of separation between the story and the reader. We are drawn into an intimacy with the story, whether it’s a description of the Australian bush or of two women falling for each other.
When we meet them, Claudie and Lien appear to be complete opposites. Henson takes us through discovering them, and them discovering themselves and each other, skillfully enough that we slide into the realization that these women are similar in so many ways, that perhaps circumstance foiled them in particular ways when we met them, but at their hearts, they are beautifully compatible.
I don’t want to spoil the turn the story takes in it’s second half, but know that it is executed perfectly. By this point in the story, Henson has taken us beyond simply longing for Claudie and Lien to be together. We’re rooting for them as individuals who are growing just as much.
As with Henson’s previous novel, this book has a lovely diverse cast that is obviously thoughtfully included for the sake of story. These clearly would be Lien and Claudie’s people. This is a representation of a slice of life, and it easily, without fanfare, reflects diversity in life. Love it.
Also, someone please donate money to my “I must go to Australia right now”, fund. Because a lifelong wish because an intense, burning need while reading this book. I fell in love with the landscape and people in this book. One day, hopefully, I’ll get to do it in real life. For now, I’ll revisit this book over and over, savoring every word.
Storm Season is a romance and, like a good real romance, it’s part mystery and part adventure, but with a good soundtrack (if you could hear Claudie’s music, at least). It’s got the inward spiraling focus of strangers-to-friends-to-lovers intensity, without ever feeling claustrophobic. Both characters have connections outside their world together, and there are narratives outside their love story which come to matter (intrigue among Lien’s friends, the story of why Claudie quit making music).
It strikes me that this is a novel about trying to get away but then trying to find your way back. Lien absconds to the bush for a vacay, but hurts herself and can’t get home again. Claudie leaves music, leaves hope, leaves love, but Lien shows her she must figure out a way back into those things. I don’t want to give away more of the novel, but much of its plot and character development are about this going-away-and-returning.
In fact, this kind of form—a run away from the norm, and then a return, slightly different, but still familiar—has a long history in art. In music, it might be the fugue (a form whose name translates as “flight”). In psychology, too, it’s a “fugue state.” In nature, it’s the echo. In literature, I can’t help but think of Boccaccio’s Decameron (great for those who want dirty short stories), in which the unifying tale is one of a handful of friends who escape to the country to avoid the ravages of the Plague, and pass the time telling stories. It’s also the history of the topsy-turvey festival (most notably nowadays, Carnavale in Rio or Mardi Gras in New Orleans) in which revelers turn every societal norm on its head (traditionally paupers dress like kings, men dress as women, fish fly, etc., but nowadays it translates into breaking from “good” behavior and getting drunk and running around half-naked while you’re having sex and cussing a lot, I imagine), but for only a limited amount of time to let off the pressure of being normal, like a steam valve that lets the pot go on cooking.
Storm Season is in this tradition, albeit with a lot less naked running around and more intelligence and feeling. What’s interesting is that it not only revels in the topsey-turvey love-affair-in-a-remote-cabin narrative, but also explores the flip side, what happens when Carnavale is over and somebody has to sweep the streets, when Lien must go back to Sydney and Claudie must stay in her remote cabin and paradise goes slipping away.
[Review also appears on my blog, Friend of Dorothy Wilde]
Pene Henson's Storm Season evokes everything I love from those books I spent so much time tracking down--sweeping descriptions of the natural world, cheeky humor, breathless emotion--with a modern sensibility around life, love, diversity, and doing what's right over what's easy.
The last thing party girl and journalist Lien wants is roughing it in the woods on the way to a festival, even with her best friends, but she rethinks her feelings about the outdoors when a freak storm washes her right into the arms of Claudie, strapping forest ranger with a mysterious musical past. Their passion blooms as the tropical storm rages, but what will become of their feelings when both return to their real life?
Pene Henson is a new author, and one that I am so glad to be introduced to. Her writing is quick, lyrical, gently funny, and emotional just when it needs to be. Every character is a dear, even the ones with barely half a dozen lines, and their identities reflect a modern, non-homogeneous Sydney. Even better, this is a story where the answer isn't giving up what anyone loves to be with a person--it's about finding oneself and striking it out on your own, and how that can make love grow all the better. A gem, one I will be returning to during the rainy NYC summer.
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