Storm and Stone: High school can be deadly…

by Joss Stirling

Winner of RONA Romantic Novel of the Year 2015 Behind the ivy-clad walls of an exclusive boarding school, lurks a sinister web of corruption, scandal, and conspiracy. American student Raven Stone has noticed something is horribly wrong. First there were the unexplained disappearances. Then there were the teachers' lies. And now the death threats ...Also entangled in the disturbing turn of events is the enigmatic Kieran Storm - a fellow student with a killer intellect and a body to die for. He's heading for trouble and taking her with him. Raven can feel herself falling in love, but can she trust a boy she knows almost nothing about? Published in eBook as Struck.

• ISBN10: 0192735683
• ISBN13: 9780192735683
• Publish Date: 23 January 2014
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 29 April 2015
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Oxford University Press
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 320
• Language: English

Reviews

[nitzan_schwarz]

Just found the half-review I wrote for this two years ago and never finished haha!

Really really liked this one! Not one bad thing I can think to say about it!

If you don't know - I love Joss Stirling. I find all her books highly enjoyable, funny, and with great characters and familial relations. But this is the first straight out contemporary novel she wrote - no cool superpowers and mind altering villains. Or so I thought. She still knows how to create creeptastic villains, magical or otherwise, and I enjoyed these book as much as I did the others.

Let me give you some key words for this book: boarding school. Bullying. Spies (or agents, whatever). Dancing. General hawtness.

Does any of these sound interesting to you? If so, I suggest you pick it out, because it really is pretty great. Can't think of a single bad thing about it - Raven and Kieran were great main characters. The romance was slowly built, convincing, and plainly hot while keeping to the YA guidelines. The plot was interesting and intriguing, and there was the right balance between school life and spies stuff.

Raven is brave and strong, facing horrible situations. I still kind of wish we learnt more of her past; why did he single her out, how she dealt, how she finally got out of it, etc. But that didn't stop me from feeling like I knew her.

Kieran is... well, he's my type. Super smart,

can we talk about the kiss for a minute!?