Review: Nowhere But Here - Katie McGarry

 

Review: Nowhere But Here - Book #1 Thunder Road Series - Katie McGarry - May 2015

For the past seventeen years as long as Emily can recall , it's always been her mum Meg, her stepdad Jeff and then the yearly visit from her biological father Eli and he has always come to see them in Florida. Now seventeen years later, they have received an obituary that her grandmother Olivia - whom she has never met has died. With reluctance, the family head to Snowflake to pay their respects, though things are about to get interesting as it turns out she's not quite dead - she's dying but not yet in the grave. Eli has Emily is about to discover is the president of the motorcycle club The Reign of Terror and it seems that they have been fighting with the rival gangs which seem to actually enjoy inflicting pain and being the baddest group around . Now that Emily is in town, it has stirred up alot of hidden truths and a past that should have remained buried , a past that included Eli, Meg and of course Emily who is at the centre of it all and it all surrounds the first two years of Emily's life - a story and truths that she cannot remember. Eli has given Oz - an upcoming prospect , the job of keeping Emily safe which at first they are at each other's throats but of course as the story goes along - we can see where it's headed. What will be the end result though, when the truth about Emily and more so her parents are revealed and the pair of them will have to make a decision of whether they choose love or the life of a motorcycle club member as once you are in the family , it's hard to leave.

I enjoyed reading Nowhere but Here and it was a nice change to read a young adult version of a Motorcycle Club etc rather than the usual New Adult MC novels that tend to contain alot of sex etc, whereas Nowhere but Here touched on some of the MC aspects but in a more PGR tone. I would have loved to have seen more of Meg and her past or at least connection with her family, but maybe Katie has that up her sleeve for a later book.