Review: Long Way Home by Katie McGarry

Title: Long Way Home

Author: Katie McGarry

Series: Thunder Road #3

Genre: Ya/Contemporary/Romance

Publisher: Harlequin Teen

Publication Date: January 31st, 2017

Edition: Kindle Edition, 448 pages

Source: Library

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Synopsis:

   Seventeen-year-old Violet has always been expected to sit back and let the boys do all the saving.

    It’s the code her father, a member of the Reign of Terror motorcycle club, raised her to live by. Yet when her dad is killed carrying out Terror business, Violet knows it’s up to her to do the saving. To protect herself, and her vulnerable younger brother, she needs to cut all ties with the club—including Chevy, the boy she’s known and loved her whole life.

    But when a rival club comes after Violet, exposing old secrets and making new threats, she’s forced to question what she thought she knew about her father, the Reign of Terror, and what she thinks she wants. Which means re-evaluating everything: love, family, friends . . . and forgiveness.

    Caught in the crosshairs between loyalty and freedom, Violet must decide whether old friends can be trusted—and if she’s strong enough to be the one person to save them all.

Review:

It's been a while since I've read books from this series, but I remember enough that I wasn't lost. 

What I remember most about these characters from the previous books is Violet being the angry girl who was kind of in the background. Since she avoided the Club as much as possible and she wasn't really in the previous books that much. From what I can remember. Chevy, I don't really remember at all. he is somewhat a quiet character in the sense that he chooses his words.

I really liked the plot of this book. There was a very good sense of urgency with everything. Nothing felt melodramatic or petty. Even the issues between Chevy and Violet weren't petty. She wanted him to give her the same level of respect as he was willing to give to the club, he may have misunderstood her, but that's a valid thing to want.

I honestly wish books like this existed when I was a teen. The topics covered in these books are things that should and need to be talked about more. Trust, family, and respect. Also on how to cope with loss; the healthy, and the unhealthy ways people to that.

I really love the characters in all these books, and I am sad that this is the last one. Things felt a little open-ended there with some of the plot points touched on.

Katie McGarry is among my favorite contemporary romance authors, she knows how to write characters that behave like real people, and situations that aren't so far fetched that nothing seems real.