A review by jessdrafahl
Defy the Storm by Tessa Gratton, Justina Ireland

3.0

Super iffy on this book. It was okay, I guess, but there was just too much going on. Characters were there and seemed important but then they weren’t, and there wasn’t a super clear motive for what was happening. And I just didn’t feel like anything DID happen. There was some good stuff in here but the meat of it was just boring. 

Also, the YA books in the HR are very bad at doing romance. Everyone seems to be in love with each other, but there’s absolutely no qualities that make me feel like the couples are anything more than just people that happen to be in the same place who occasionally kiss. I think if the YA HR authors wanted to have as many couples as they do, they really should have spent time giving them backstories and making their relationships actually mean something to the story.