Review: Soft Like Thunder

Soft Like Thunder by Julia Wolf
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Note: I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Note 2: This is a series. Please read in order as previous characters do make cameos.
Note 3: The Savage Crew series are the prequels to Helen's friends' stories. So read them before you read this. Will probably make more sense if you do.

Trigger Warnings: death, assault, sexual assault, negative words for sexworkers strippers, drug abuse, mental illness, tragic backstories, stealing.

Helen and Theo are an anomaly. I mean it. They're like the epitome of Romeo and Juliet, except with scheming for a girlfriend arrangement by parents, drug-abused mother, and terminal illness taken friend.

Helen comes from the backwater part of the elite world, poor living, drug abused mother, rotten living conditions and her being a stripper and weed dealer by night, caring for her young sister and send to go to Savage U by her terminally ill friend.

Also: Helen of Troy anyone?

Theo comes from a silver-spoon fed world, with parent (dad) threatening to cut him off if he associates with anyone of a lower league and does not work hard to get his grades (thus sent to Savage U because his father is there as well apparently), even though his own father had the first marriage with a girl from backwater lands.

Despite all that - Theo and Helen end up relating to each other, with friends with benefits arrangement, and then falling in love.

BUT AS Y'ALL KNOW - plot twists come a-running! With Helen's secrets soon unravelled, Theo ends up taking a step back because too many similarities with his own childhood and betrayal hurts I guess?

But they reconcile and it's a difficult road to a HEA but they make it.

BUT: It's obviously with the help of Helen's friends, Zadie and Elena (yes I know hard to believe but here we are), and Theo's stepmother (forgot her name whoops) that it all happens.

I loved everything of this novel, even though it's a first time for me reading Julia Wolf but here I am. Absolutely in love and craving more.

Fun fact: Zadie's story is up next, yes with Amir (a brief chapter of you know one of Helen's weed deals going wrong and a henchman sent to make things right - and then there's Zadie and Amir hehe)

Zadie and Amir's story: Bright Like Midnight - coming April 15 2022. OOH I can't wait!!!

insert music notes* a bad boy, all the good girls think they need a bad boy *end music notes

Until the next read,

-JB


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