Wild Heart Review of Storm Crossed

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Amber Dehart Reviewer

Author: Lesley Mitchum
Genre: Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary, Paranormal
Release Date: March 20th, 2016
Published By: Desert Breeze Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1682949656

Lonely college student Camelia Garrett is struck by lightning in the midst of a pond. She awakens with acute sensory sensitivity and a bizarre ability to absorb electricity. A mysterious and alluring man claims to have the answers, but Cami is afraid to believe his wild tales about what she has become.

Christian Hartt is part of a secret organization of Storm Seekers-men enhanced by the quantum storm who travel the world using their enhanced strength and abilities to assist with storm relief. But his ordered world changes the moment Cami summons him with a wordless call; the Lynk that commands him with his life binds them emotionally.

It has been generations since there has been a female Seeker. As Christian and Cami try to find the truth behind being Lynked, and what it all means, they come face-to-face with the most dangerous rebel Seeker in the world. One who wants Cami’s unique power for revenge.

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Storm Crossed is one of those books I let sit in my TBR pile for months. Literally, months. I don’t know why but I kept telling myself, “You need to go read that.” Then for some unknown reason, I was dreading it. At one point I started it, got about a page in and said, “No, I don’t want to read this.” I just wasn’t ready. I put it back on my TBR list and continued on with other things. Fast forward about seven months. Yes. SEVEN. I finally read it and let me tell you … I’m asking myself why in the heck I didn’t read this sooner. Oh, my God. Hands down, this book should be a movie.

I hadn’t read anything by Lesley Mitchum prior to Storm Crossed and I think that’s what fed into my anxiety about it. Typically, with a new author, I don’t have that issue but I -really- wanted to like this book. Well, I more than like this book. I’m completely enamored with the story, the plot and the author’s writing style. I want more. I want another book. I want a series. I did not put the book down once after I started it.

That being said. I don’t want to go into massive details about this book. The blurb is fantastic in that regard and I’m afraid if I give you more details it will take away from the story. I’d waiting so long to Storm Crossed that I went into it blind and I’m thankful for that.

A few things I will mention. This book is a stand alone but you will want more. I’m not exactly sure if it’s under new adult or young adult, I need to clarify that but it can definitely be read by anyone. I’d hand this to one of my baby cousins. In fact, I already plan to have both my mother and older sister read this.

A fantastic novel that will draw you in, and leave you wanting more. 4.5 Storm Seeking Stars

David & Bathsheba

The story of David and Bathsheba is a very interesting one to me, because it takes one of the hero's from the Bible and shows his very human side, and how the consequences of sin affects our lives.

God loved David. He said that David was a man of His own heart. Honey, that's pretty awesome to be a man of God's heart! 

David saw Bathsheba bathing on her roof and decided he wanted her, and sent for her. Later Bathsheba discovered she was pregnant. Now, the problem is that not only was Bathsheba married to a man named, Uriah, but Uriah was, and had been away to war so there's no way it could have been her husband's baby. 

So to clean up his mess, David sent for Uriah and had him come home with the hopes that Uriah would sleep with his already pregnant wife and nobody would be the wiser. 

Except Uriah refused to go home because he was an honorable man who would not go home until the rest of the soldiers could also. Now this was a problem because if Uriah proclaims that Bathsheba is pregnant due to adultery then Bathsheba could be stoned. So King David decides to orchestrate Uriah's death by sending him to the front lines. Where he does die.

From that point on David's life was in constant turmoil. His infant son with Bathsheba died and much more upsetting and heartbreaking things with his children. David asked and received forgiveness from God, but sin has consequences.

The thing that always stops me in my tracks when I read this story is what God tells David after David had Uriah killed and then he married Bathsheba, God asked David why he had done such a thing? That not only had David committed murder, but he also married Bathsheba. God asked David why. Why had David not come to him if he wasn't satisfied... that He would have given him MORE. 

David was a King. He had a harem. He had any and everything, yet God said he would have given him more. Now, I do not equate that to mean more wives or even Bathsheba... I think it simply means that before you act on your impulsive feelings and go sin, pray to the Lord about your feelings and, yes, even your desires. He loves you and wants you to be happy so he can help you either resolve your feelings or he will give you more...better...even better than Bathsheba, but in his way...the right way. 

Yes, I said even better than Bathsheba. I think the Lord wants us to to be able to control our fleshly wants and desires, with his help of course. But David did what his flesh wanted instead of consulting God. Look at it this way, if you trust in God and pray to him when you feel susceptible to sin, and we all sin friends and we also all struggle with sin, then it will work it out...and in the best possible way. 

As a bit of a side note, I'd like to add that even though what David and Bathsheba did was wrong, it's interesting that Bathsheba went on to be the mother of Solomon, and Solomon credited his success to his mother. She is also listed in the genealogy of Jesus Christ as "the wife of Uriah the Hittite", and only four women are mentioned in the lineage. What an honor. So in the end I think it's safe to say that Bathsheba, though viewed as an adulterer, true enough, but good people make mistakes. Good people sin, all day every day, but then they raise kings...and that's how God works sometimes, He takes people you'd never suspect and He uses them for His glory, but that's another story. 

I know I use the phrase "I think", a lot, but that's because these are just my own personal thoughts and feelings inspired by reading or sermons and what I have gleaned. My opinions and thoughts only, with the hopes that there's some knowledge received that somebody desperately needs to read.

Fear Not

Do you know how many times verses like "fear not", "do not worry", "be anxious for nothing," and the like are in the Bible? Over 365 times. Very curious isn't it that there's also 365 days in a year? 

So what happens when you refuse to be worried, afraid or anxious? Peace maybe? I'm still working this out myself, but when what I knew in my head finally met up with my spirit I understood. I understood that giving my worries and fears over to the Lord was a daily thing for me. Just like brushing my teeth. 365 days a year. 

So why do we worry?

He knows what I need.

He knows who I need.

And he will always arrange the chess pieces in my favor...

So basically, fearing not, seems to equate happiness, peace and faith. 

Hey, I'm in!

LHM