Blog Tour + Review: Southern Storms by Brittainy C. Cherry
Even the town’s black sheep needed a friend sometimes
Southern Storms, an all-new, small town second chance romance from Brittainy C. Cherry, is available now!
All I wanted to do was run away, I never expected to crash into his arms…
After leaving the city life behind to escape my loveless marriage, I moved to small town Havenbarrow for a fresh start.
What I didn’t expect was to find myself drawn to the town’s black sheep.
They called him troubled. Cold. A man with a dark past.
What everyone seemed to miss about Jax was the splashes of light in his eyes. The random acts of kindness he performed when no one was watching. The way he made me smile and laugh.
Jax helped unpack the baggage I’d been carrying around with me. He was patient with my pain and gentle with my scars. He was the stillness during my hurricane.
Yet when both of our pasts come back to haunt our present days, we realized quickly that sometimes loves stories didn’t end the way we’d hoped.
Sometimes you were left with only the damage from the storm.
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Excerpt
Kennedy
Joy Jones was quite the character to take in. That
morning, when the sun came up, she walked outside to her front porch and sat
down in her rocking chair with a smile on her face and a large cup of coffee. A
few of my nosy visitors told me that it was a daily routine for her.
Her silver-dripped hair was tossed up in a messy bun being
held together with two knitting needles, and her thick-framed, vibrant-orange
glasses sat on top of her head. She wore a vibrant bow in her hair that matched
her dress for the day, and she always greeted everyone who passed by her house,
even when they didn’t speak back to her. Everyone in town called her Crazy Joy,
even though she was the kindest person. Her only odd quirk was that she never
left her property.
I wondered how she managed, though. I wondered how she
kept living without stepping foot outside of her home. It seemed she hadn’t any
children and she didn’t have a caregiver who came to aid her, from what I could
tell.
Later that morning, my questions were answered as a blue
pick-up truck pulled in front of the house. Needless to say, my jaw dropped to
the ground when I saw Mr. Personality step out of the vehicle. He walked his
way straight toward Joy’s front porch with his arms filled with grocery bags.
He proceeded to greet Joy. She stood from the rocking
chair as he set the bags down on the porch. Then, he hugged her.
He hugged her!
I wouldn’t have thought someone as grumpy as Mr.
Personality had the ability to hug someone. The two of them walked inside to
put the groceries away, leaving me completely baffled and unable to return to
my scheduled reading. It took a lot to break me away from a book. And by ‘a
lot,’ I meant a lot. My house
could’ve been on fire, aliens could’ve beamed me up, and I would’ve still been
trying to get in that one last page. When my own love story was broken, I
turned to story books to heal the cracks of my broken heartbeats. When my world
fell apart, the story books still believed in happily ever afters. Those books
saved me on the days I felt my soul falling victim to the hardest of storms.
Yet, Mr. Personality pulled me away from the words against
the page. He made me curious about him walking into Joy’s house. Watching him
chat away with her had my mind racing. A few minutes later, when the two of
them walked back outside with two glasses in their hands—one with wine, the
other with some dark liquor—whiskey, I assumed—I couldn’t stop myself from
glancing over to them. Joy kept talking, and Mr. Personality kept responding. Even
though I couldn’t hear what they were saying, Joy looked beyond smitten with
whatever was being said her way, which forced my own heart to skip a few beats.
Well, I’ll be damned.
The town’s asshole made me swoon.
**ARC provided in exchange for an honest review**
"I missed you more. I missed your light so damn much. I'd been living in darkness for so long...I missed you..."
Southern Storms is a nice and straight-forward contemporary romance. It is a bit less emotional than what I am used to from this author, but there were still a couple of scenes that brought me to tears. It is fast-paced and it sometimes felt a bit rushed. However, the author did a good job in making me connect to the characters and be interested in their (back)story. Jax and Kennedy are both broken and dealing with their issues. Jax is broody and the black sheep of the town. He keeps to himself and only interacts with a handful of people. I have to say that he picked the best people to surround himself with. I will get back to these side-characters later in my review. Kennedy used to be a colorful, happy, and sassy young girl, but along the way has lost her self-confidence and deals with panic-attacks due to a very traumatic incident. My heart broke to see her dealing with so much pain.
"I love your broken pieces, because it shows that you've lived. It shows that you are brave enough to give yourself to the world, no matter how hard it can be at times."
Jax and Kennedy were a great match, and I loved seeing them grow stronger together. Especially Jax stole my heart, even though from the outside he looks unapproachable, he was one of the sweetest people who would do anything for the individuals in his life. They were both living in the dark and they brought each other back into the light. I also have to say that both of them had a great support system. Especially Jax had the best people around him. One of my favorite side-characters ever is Connor, who is a seventeen year old who is his assistant/side-kick. He was hilarious and such a bright young man. I enjoyed the flashbacks, which showed me another side to the main characters. They were both such beautiful and innocent young kids, and they were just dealt such a bad hand in life. But I was thankful that they came together and healed themselves and each other. I wish the book was longer, because it felt rushed especially at the end. I wanted more time with them and see them grow stronger even more.
"You're everything I wanted and everything I never knew I could have."
About Brittainy:
Author Brittainy C. Cherry is an Amazon #1 bestselling author. She has been in love with words since the day she took her first breath. She graduated from Carroll University with a Bachelors Degree in Theatre Arts and a minor in Creative Writing. Her novels have been published in 18+ countries around the world. Brittainy lives in Brookfield, Wisconsin with her fur babies.
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