Love Affair With Ficti

At the end of a life-changing summer a devastating tornado hit the small town of Hope’s Grove, Oklahoma.

While the brick suburban mansions of Summit Bluffs saw very little damage, their occupants weren’t so lucky. As the members of both communities struggle to put the pieces of their lives back together, lies will be told, truths will be revealed, and nothing will ever be the same. The road to recovery is long and paved with past hurts and future heartbreaks.

They ignored the warning signs, and one of them didn’t make it out alive. The four that remain know they’d be crazy to think the storms are actually over..

Because it’s just when you think you’re safe that you find yourself right in the path of destruction.

Prologue – Cameron
I’d always heard that your entire life flashes before your eyes right before you die. Now, I can honestly say that it’s true. Well, almost true. It’s more like your mind flips through a mental photo album of all the things you’d done and the people you’d met—a birthday party, the first time you drove, someone’s face when you told them they’d never be as pretty as you, your mother’s reprimanding glare when you didn’t win the pageant title you were supposed to, you as a little girl waiting on the front steps for your father to come home—it’s all there. The good, the bad, the ugly. All of it.

You can try to focus on the good—like the face of the person you loved—but it’s no use. Whether you want to or not, you see it all. It must be God’s way of letting you see what he saw so you aren’t surprised when you end up on the other side in Hell. Which is exactly where I’d assumed I’d just booked a first class ticket too.

I was too weak to fight it—to argue that I was in fact a good person—once the storm decided that I was going to be one of its victims, there was nothing I could do but try to hold on to the face of the one person I was sure I’d never see again.

Served me right. I shouldn’t have waited to tell him how I felt. I should have told him the moment I felt it. The moment I realized that despite what I’d done in my past, I was a better person just for loving him.

As the darkness and quiet started to surround me, I knew that it was too late to beg for forgiveness now. Instead, I just closed my eyes and prayed for mercy.

 

 REVIEW

Jennifer’s Review

Well holy wowza. Path of Destruction did me in. So if you haven’t read Storm Warning, please do. This book won’t make a lick of sense if you don’t read it first.

That being said, it is really hard to write a review for PoD without spoilers. Here’s my best shot.

Read the book. For real. Elizabeth Lee and Caisey Quinn may have ripped my heart out, but all is forgiven. The characters in this book deal with incredibly heavy stuff. Stuff that is definitely more common for people to deal with. It’s real, it’s gritty, it’s raw. But at the same time, it’s lovely. Seeing how the characters deal with their life’s paths broke my heart – not just because I felt bad for them, but because it’s real.

Elizabeth and Caisey created a series that isn’t fluff, isn’t just hearts and rainbows and happy endings. The characters are flawed, not always perfect and likable, and they struggle daily to deal with everything that has been thrown at them.

Thank you, Elizabeth and Caisey for creating something that’s not perfect, wrapped up or even expected. I was kept guessing through the entire book, through my tears – which were in abundance.

I was given a copy early so I could provide a review! Thanks, ladies.