Storm Surge - Book Two

Dar and Kerry #11

by Melissa Good

The conclusion of the story begun in Storm Surge, Book One. Its fall. Dar and Kerry are traveling - Dar overseas to clinch a deal with their new ship owner partners in England, and Kerry on a reluctant visit home for her high school reunion. In the midst of corporate deals and personal conflict, their world goes unexpectedly out of control when an early morning spurt of unusual alarms turns out to be the beginning of a shocking nightmare neither expected. Can they win the race against time to save their company and themselves?

Genres: Lesbian, Romance, LGBT, Fiction, Lesbian Romance, Adventure

264 pages, Paperback

First published August 19, 2011

About the author

Melissa Good is a full time network engineer and part time writer who lives in Pembroke Pines, Florida with a handful of lizards and a dog. When not traveling for work, or participating in the usual chores she ejects several sets of clamoring voices onto a variety of keyboards and tries to entertain others with them to the best of her ability. She is a prolific author of many published novels and a very well-known author of Xena fan fiction. You can find other info at www.merwolf.com.
Melissa “Missy” Good is the Royal Academy of Bards 2005 Hall of Fame Author and the winner of 2008 Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement Award.

Reviews

[Della B · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is most definitely the best book in the series! Reliving the collapse of the Twin Towers was rough however getting the on the ground view was extraordinary. The characters are memorable but the story lines are outstanding. You are walking in nerd shoes and loving every minute of it.
BEST SERIES I have ever read and that includes all of Radclyffe's.

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pros, this book has Dar and Kerry together for most of it, and resolves things in the end. So it's more satisfying than the previous book, plus it seems slightly lighter on the technical details. Cons, it's even more of a never-ending cascade of problems. Good is normally an excellent storyteller, and if things are pretty fantastical sometimes (cough, Terrors of the High Seas, cough), it's all in good fun and very appropriate given the roots this series has in Xena: Warrior Princess.

However. In this book, she essentially takes a Murphy's Law approach to storytelling (anything that could go wrong for the characters does), which just drags things out unnecessarily and feels like a bit too much. It's also unsatisfying that Dar & Kerry are so little in control in this book. The CIO and executive VP of the biggest information services corporation in the world spend the entire book doing grungy tech work for no reward.

It was a cool idea to base a Dar & Kerry story on the real-life event of 9/11, which provides a very dramatic backdrop for a story focused on IT matters. Unfortunately, she needed a good editor to make that work, and she didn't have one.

The version of this for sale is very, very poorly edited. If you want to spend a quick hour spellchecking and correcting typos, you're better off downloading it for free from Missy Good's website and editing it yourself. (Seriously, I've done this with all her Xena altfic books, and my versions are better edited than this published one.) But if you do, toss some money her way, because she does deserve to be compensated for her mostly great storytelling.

What Good really needs, and does not have, is a true editor who'll give her feedback on the writing. Ah well.

[Tony Hisgett · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the conclusion to the story that started in the previous book, Dar and Kerry are now trying to save Wall Street while suffering from some of the most obnoxious, stupid and self-centred officials.

This is not one of my favourite Dar and Kerry stories, mainly because I prefer stories when they are more in control. I also like the ‘bad’ guys to be punished in some way, in this story there are too many politicians and agencies that don’t get their just deserts.

[Mel Mel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another Great One

I love Dar and Kerry. I aspire to have a relationship like they have. I love their story and I think I always will.

[Leslie J Holbrook · Rating 5 out of 5]

LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS SERIES!!!

I have read every book of this series. After I rave about this story I will start the next one with Dar and Kerry. Thanks Melissa Good for the fun, happy and exciting story about these two women.

[Sandra · Rating 5 out of 5]

I can't get enough of Dar and Kerry.