Struck by Jennifer Bosworth

Struck by Jennifer Bosworth

Review of Struck

Title & Author:
Struck by Jennifer Bosworth
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date:
May 08, 2012
Pages:
373
Source:
ARC from Publisher

Mia Price is a lightning addict. She’s survived countless strikes, but her craving to connect to the energy in storms endangers her life and the lives of those around her.

Los Angeles, where lightning rarely strikes, is one of the few places Mia feels safe from her addiction. But when an earthquake devastates the city, her haven is transformed into a minefield of chaos and danger. The beaches become massive tent cities. Downtown is a crumbling wasteland, where a traveling party moves to a different empty building each night, the revelers drawn to the destruction by a force they cannot deny. Two warring cults rise to power, and both see Mia as the key to their opposing doomsday prophecies. They believe she has a connection to the freak electrical storm that caused the quake, and to the far more devastating storm that is yet to come.

Mia wants to trust the enigmatic and alluring Jeremy when he promises to protect her, but she fears he isn’t who he claims to be. In the end, the passion and power that brought them together could be their downfall. When the final disaster strikes, Mia must risk unleashing the full horror of her strength to save the people she loves, or lose everything. – Goodreads

Struck by Jennifer Bosworth is one of those books that had such an intense and crazy storyline that I was left dumbstruck (see what I did there?) after the finish of Struck.

I mean, Struck had everything. It had apocalypses and crazies and cults and cute boys and people getting struck by lightning and it was just seriously such a wild ride of a book.

I loved the protagonist, Mia Price. She is such a badass. I loved her loyalty and determination to keep her family safe, no matter what the cost, even if it did leave her in some pretty terrible and dangerous situations. And the other characters – there was a whole host of them and there were CULTS and craziness.

Struck told the story of the apocalypse as it was happening, which is oh so rare these days. Most books I’ve read are stories that take place in the time after, so reading Struck was definitely a refreshing change of pace.

And there was this moment, this one point in Struck where I literally was like WHAT WAIT WHAT and had to put the book down because I couldn’t believe what just happened. Because AHH what a twist I was so not expecting.

Overally, definitely pick up Struck by Jennifer Bosworth if you’re looking for some apocalypse cult-like action with a side of cute boy and total craziness. I had a lot of fun reading Struck and even though the whole story was totally crazy, I could totally feel myself living it while I was reading it.

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