Review - Into the Tempest by N.R. Walker

Jeremiah has finished the move to Darwin, leaving his old life in Melbourne behind. He’s living with Tully and trying to work with the ancient equipment of the weather station he’s been saddled with. There’s not much time to settle in. A tropical cyclone is heading straight for Darwin, and it’s a big one. Jeremiah knows all about cyclones, in theory, but he’s never experienced one. Both men are in for a hair-raising experience as they ride out the storm and come to grips with their intense feelings for each other.

This story is a direct follow-up to Outrun the Rain, so you need to have read that book before this one. We join Tully and Jeremiah as they’re getting settled back in Darwin after their adventure in the jungle. They got together during that trip, and now, thanks to Jeremiah’s involuntary transfer to run the Darwin station, the two have a chance to explore where they want the relationship to go.

Once again, the narration alternates between Tully and Jeremiah. We get a lot more insight into both of them. Jeremiah continues to come across as a classic nerd. Albeit, one who has very little experiences of life outside academia. We got a glimpse of the young man’s determined spirit in the first book, and that impression is driven home in this installment. As we also saw, Jeremiah can even be a bit a bit reckless when he’s set on doing something.

We get to see another side of Tully in this book. We get introduced to his family. Unlike Jeremiah, Tully has two brothers and a sister, as well as both parents. It’s very different from Jeremiah’s upbringing by a single father. Tully’s interactions with one of his brothers, Ellis, provides some hilarious moments of comic relief in the story.

“Into the Tempest” is available from Amazon (commissionable link).