Nowhere But Here (Thunder Road #1) by Katie McGarry
Pages: 496
Publish date: June 1st 2015
Publisher: Harlequin (Australia), TEEN
ISBN: 9781743690956
Purchase: Book Depository – Amazon UK – Amazon US – Amazon AU –Harlequin Books
Seventeen-year-old Emily likes her life the way it is: doting parents, good friends, good school in a safe neighborhood. Sure, she’s curious about her biological father—the one who chose life in a motorcycle club, the Reign of Terror, over being a parent—but that doesn’t mean she wants to be a part of his world. But when a reluctant visit turns to an extended summer vacation among relatives she never knew she had, one thing becomes clear: nothing is what it seems. Not the club, not her secret-keeping father and not Oz, a guy with suck-me-in blue eyes who can help her understand them both.
Oz wants one thing: to join the Reign of Terror. They’re the good guys. They protect people. They’re…family. And while Emily—the gorgeous and sheltered daughter of the club’s most respected member—is in town, he’s gonna prove it to her. So when her father asks him to keep her safe from a rival club with a score to settle, Oz knows it’s his shot at his dream. What he doesn’t count on is that Emily just might turn that dream upside down.
No one wants them to be together. But sometimes the right person is the one you least expect, and the road you fear the most is the one that leads you home.
Nowhere But Here:
I received an e-copy of Nowhere but Here in exchange for an honest review from Harlequin (Australia), TEEN through Netgalley, this has in no what influenced my review.
If you know me well, you would know that I love Katie McGarry and I haven’t even read all her books yet. But when I saw Nowhere but Here on Netgalley I requested it right away because come one, anything Katie McGarry writes is pretty awesome.
I adore Nowhere but Here. It was brilliant and different to other McGarry books but still has the emotions and intriguing writing style of McGarry. Let me just say this, I want to have physical copies of all her books but I have no money and I want to cry and just, frustrating but anyway back to the review.
“Our fears are what strifle us and we’re only scared of what we don’t understand. Fear can be handed down generationally, kind of like eye colour. I love your mom, but I also love you. I don’t want to see your mother’s fears turn into chains that drag you down”
Nowhere but Here follow like all McGarry books two protagonist and I love them both. Emily is shy however has a devious side to her. She is timid but stands up for what she believes is right, Emily seems one dimension the outside but once you dig deeper into the book, you see that she has many layers to her.
Oz is my new book boyfriend. Holy hell. Oz is quite different from other Katie McGarry book, his family isn’t that dysfunction, and he loves them to pieces. He is caring, loving and would do anything for his family. Oz can be a hard head at times but that’s because he cares so much about his family that if anyone messes with them he wants ‘revenge’ in a way.
Emily and Oz come to together when, Emily and her family arrive in snowflake after an email from her biological father, which invites them to her grandmother’s wake. But everything is not what is seems.
It is quite rare when I love family in young adult novels. Everyone seems to be from a dysfunction family, or controlling parents but I adored Emily’s father’s side of the family.
“Because nobody deserves to be thrown into the middle of a tornado”
They all might not related by blood but they all treat each other like they are blood related and it’s so eccentric to see. I quite enjoyed Eli, Emily’s father. At the start you want to hate him for what he did to Emily and her mum but after things start to unfold the reader is able to see that he loves Emily with everything he has. I also liked the contrast of what Emily things of her father and what Oz thinks of him. It’s wired to see but it’s awesome as well.
I loved so many characters throughout the book that we would be here forever with me naming them all.
Katie McGarry hit a new high with Nowhere but Here, since it wasn’t just about the romance of the protagonist but more about family and finding yourself. We don’t see that a lot in young adult and it’s refreshing.
McGarry’s writing is as always brilliant, you just want to read page after page and not put it down. It’s simple and not difficult to read but has so much power and drive to it that it would appeal to both young adults and adults as well.
McGarry also knows how to write steamy characters, come on the tension between Emily and Oz was dazzling. Anyone could see it and it was awesome.
Another thing that I adore about Katie McGarry is that she knows how to break my heart and rip it in a thousand pieces.
Nowhere but Here is another stunning piece of work from Katie McGarry and I’m so excited to read more of this steamy, family orientated, beautiful series. If I could give it more than five stars I would.
Have you read Nowhere but Here yet? Are you going to do so?
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