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Lives depend on two women when a train derails high in the remote Alps, but an unforgiving mountain, avalanches, crevasses, and other perils stand between them and safety. Associated Press reporter Hudson Mead is an extreme skiing enthusiast who has covered war zones and natural disasters during her long and distinguished career, but nothing could have prepared her for the challenges she'll face when the snow train she's riding is decimated by a massive avalanche.
Librarian Steffi Graham, on her first trip abroad, is anxious to hone her rock-climbing skills in a new and unfamiliar terrain of ice and snow. She gets much more than she bargained for when her talents put her on the team that goes for help. As the two strangers struggle to reach civilization, they must compromise and learn to trust each other, a task that may be nearly as difficult as the journey itself.
- Sales Rank: #66858 in Audible
- Published on: 2015-05-26
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 527 minutes
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Great adventure story
By Silvery
Award winning writer Kim Baldwin does it again. Taken by Storm is a well written and developed adventure novel with a strong shot of romance. Nicely developed strong characters who are challenged to grow through the story with well done secondary characters that are essential to the plot development. There is good treatment of the ramifications of climate change in the plot dev..Tons of knowledge about survival and climbing in challenging conditions just adds to the richness of the novel. Nice heat to top it off!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Another Exciting Read from this award winning author!
By RLynne
Taken By Storm is an exciting story of a scenic passenger train in the Swiss-Italian Alps which is buried by an avalanche. Baldwin does a great job of introducing the two main characters separately in their home settings. Steffi Graham is a librarian in a small town in Washington. She has never traveled out of the country before. Hudson Mead is an award winning reporter for the Associated Press. Steffi is traveling with her rock climbing club, while Hudson is traveling with her photographer. Both women are looking forward to a well earned vacation.
Baldwin beautifully increases the tension as the train passes through the heavy snow in the Alps. She raises the ante when the train is hit by an avalanche and plunges off the tracks and down into a gorge. The twenty-two survivors must work together, pooling their skills, food, and water so that all can survive. Their techniques for melting snow for water, dividing up what food they have, and helping the injured are told in detail, helping readers get to know the supporting characters. Kim Baldwin is a former CNN executive, and I really chuckled over the portrayal of a character from a less esteemed news station.
As food and water are running out, it becomes obvious that the survivors must do something to help rescue themselves. Hudson and Steffi are the best candidates for this, as they are fit, and Steffi has good rock climbing skills. This is where the story takes on more danger and drama, and where Steffi and Hudson must learn to trust each other.
If you're a fan of adventure, good characters, and a love story, Taken By Storm is for you! It has it all!
10 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Taken everywhere and nowhere in the end
By d_fossey
I've been going back and forth about whether this book is a 2 star or 3 star. I really wanted to like this book. Not only is it Baldwin's first novel on her own in several years, but the subject matter is right up my alley. I applaud any author who can create a profound, moving connection between characters who are literally fighting for their lives. Because let's face it, it's really hard to make romantic development between people believable when they haven't eaten in three days. Pyramid of concerns and all that. But after I finished it and really digested the work as a whole, I'm finding a lot more criticisms than positives. There are some spoilers ahead.
The main theme I'll probably keep coming back to in this long review is this book lacks identity. O Book, What Art Thou??! Are you adventure? Are you romance with adventure? Are you an in depth look into human survival-ism? Are you a study of like 18 different characters and how they all react to a tragic situation? It seems at times you are all these things and more, and frankly you aren't very good at any of them.
Let's start with the romance. There is nary a touch, hand hold, hug or even a sleeping situation until like 70% in! So if I'm stuck in a buried train not knowing whether or not I am even going to be alive by the end of the week, I'm throwing caution to the wind and spooning the hot chick in the tour group by night 2. For body warmth of course. There is just very little chemistry between Hudson and Steffi, in fact at one point in the story, they barely like each other. And even when they finally start having heart to heart conversations waaayyy late, it's almost clinical in the way it's done. There is one point where Hudson thinks she might really be digging Steffi and her thought is that "she'd faced down her fears and done an admirable job with the leadership role". That's about as romantic as my boss giving me my annual review. And don't expect it to all come together at the end in an explosion of undying love and mind-blowing sex that tickles your inner hopeless romantic funny bone. Not happening.
So let's move to character study in a tragedy. I swear, I started counting the secondary characters in this book and stopped sometime after 16. Steffi and her friend and partner, Hudson and the photographer, Hudson and the flat mate, Hudson and the boss, Kentucky guy, Anna, Curt and dead wife, Nick, J.T. and macho man crew, Swiss disaster boss, Swiss pilot, various Europeans, various Japanese. I mean chapters are sometimes devoted to these people, albeit short ones. Does anyone not think that is just too many?
For the adventure, survivalist part of this book, I wouldn't exactly call it edge of my seat. In fact, playing with my iPhone 6 was winning out more times in the what to do with my evening decision. And it's not that it was just boring, which much of the time it was, I feel like when too much is trying to be done, everything suffers from mediocrity. I will give Baldwin this, she knows her climbing. When Steffi and Hudson finally strike out to rescue the sorry lot, it starts getting a little more engaging. And they finally spoon in a snow cave.
As you can probably imagine with any lesfic with a natural disaster involved, there comes political agenda. But the political agendas sprinkled throughout this work lack originality or creativity. Most of it is just the same old spouting of the liberal environmentalist mantra we are inundated with in our daily lives. In fact, there is a thought expressed by one of the multitude of characters that global warming was the likely cause of the 50 or so nearly simultaneous avalanches that took place in several European countries. I'm sorry, but really? At least have him be watching some television where a scientist is giving some evidence for this. I'll suspend my disbelief of the simultaneous avalanches for you, but that statement to me is like saying I saw something flying in the air that wasn't a bird or a plane so it was most likely an alien spacecraft. And by the way, the 90s called, they want their "Global Warming" back. I believe the word of the day is "Climate Change".
And then there is J.T. As if it isn't enough that these people have endured multiple avalanches, lost loved ones, and sustained injuries, we need to introduce a villain? Agenda warning, who does he work for... why Fox News of course! J.T. is a somewhat ridiculous, conceited, hot head who later becomes a bit of a punching bag and I suppose some comedic relief element in the end. But with 15 other characters, why is he needed, what purpose does he serve, how does he help the overall theme and direction of the novel? Rhetorical questions.
In summary... I still love Hunter's Pursuit and Whitewater Rendezvous!!
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