What happens when you stumble upon something you can’t turn a blind eye to?In one shocking instant the life I know is turned upside down, and during all the chaos, my friendships are tested. Loyalties I thought were strong are broken. And the people I love are put in harm’s way.I can only count on me.Three men are in my life, but they each have their own motives. Which one can I trust?My only … motives. Which one can I trust?
My only goal is to make it out of this alive. I don’t even know if it’s in the cards for me.
My name is Alexis Storm, and my answer to the storm my life has become is to fight back at all costs.
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This book has action, suspense, drama, and plenty of hot men to keep me reading.
An okay read.
This book ends on a cliff hanger.
I voluntarily reviewed an Advanced Reader Copy of this book.
Received a copy from Hidden Gems and this is my honest review…..
This was the beginning of a series I have no intention of finishing. The characters were unlikeable, the writing uneven, it bounced around everywhere. I had a hard time getting into the book and was left feeling totally unsatisfied. Not For ME
Lexi has learned to step in to her family’s shoes
This is my 2nd book by the author and I was instantly drawn into Lexi’s world. Lexi follows in her deceased brother’s footsteps with missile production, and what follows is a “who done it” of suspense, drama and love. You’re unable to stop turning the page to figure out who did it and what secret is being kept. Will Lexi survive and find love? You have to read to find out and will be surprised by the plot twists. I am sure hoping there is a sequel coming soon.
Gracie Wilson, Julia Bright: ‘Determined’, Storm Corp book 1.
As an ARC reader I received this book for free. And promised an honest review. Here it is. English isn’t my first language. Sorry for errors.
Rating: 4 stars (of 5).
In general: Complicated start of a CEO career.
Main characters:
– Alexis ‘Lexi’ Storm. CEO of Storm Corp., a firm dealing in the digital aspects of weapons. Now at the age of 21; her dad and mom died when she was 11 years old.
– Lucas Storm. Her older brother. Lexi’s guardian till his death when Alexis was 20 years old.
– Nolan Nathan. Lucas’ best friend and executive manager and real boss of Storm Corp while Lexi finishes her computer science and materials-engineering studies. Since many years Lexi has a secret crush on him. A few months before Lucas’s death she confessed her love to him. But he told her he wants her only as best friend.
At the start of the book Lexi wants to be the real CEO of Storm Corp, the
company she owns after Lucas’s death.
– Tory. Lexi’s live-in-butler, driver, bodyguard and confidant. He knows Lexi since she was a kid for he already had the same position for Lexi’s parents. He’s like a father for her.
– Cohen Price. A gorgeous looking computer genius. Lexi want his help with the
execution of a new missile contract, her first own project as active CEO of
Storm Corp. In his free time he’s a very talented singer, performing in a bar. Lexi
buys the bar on a whim and wants to turn it into a nightclub with the name
‘Cadenza’.
– Maxwell Finch. Former owner of the firm bought by Lexi to execute her new weapon project. Now intermediator in selling the missiles. But he has his own agenda and turns out an opponent of Lexi missile plans.
– Oliver Lawrence. For her missile project Lexi needs more security men. One of the bosses of them is Davey, Oliver’s dad, and an old friend of Lexi’s father. So ‘Oli’ and Lexi met when they were little kids. Now he’s a big, fine looking bodyguard.
The authors, Gracie Wilson and Julia Bright describe the many, tenseful complications in Lexi’s love life and her performance as a young, inexperienced, but smart CEO and nightclub-owner. In her missile project she has to deal with opposition and treason. Her love life is complicated: she’s physically attracted to three men: her ‘old’ crush Nolan, who gives mixed signals and is overprotective. Then Cohen, the talented singer and genial computer nerd, but can she trust him? And at last there’s Oli, her quiet, strong and trustful bodyguard and friend when she was a little kid. With all three she kissed, but she cannot make a choice. And that – for me – was a weakness in the plot. How can a smart, independent woman as Lexi easily fall repeatedly for the physical attraction of three men without making up her mind? Why is she so indecisive?
At the end the suspenseful, well written book ends with a kind of cliffhanger. So I’am looking forward to the next Storm Corp book in this series.
R.Huiszoon.