Supercell

I purchased this book because I thought it would be interesting with the weather aspect since my husband is a weather forecaster. I got caught up in the story right away and read my husband excerpts. The weather terminology and application is spot on and he especially loved the "nymphocumulus and P-squared" terms and will probably share them with his fellow weather trainers and students. The action is non-stop and the story is entertaining and engaging. The deeper truths were no,t neglected either in the relationship between Ty and Chuck. I highly recommend this book.

The first few pages were not very good in my opinion but I'm glad that I didn't give up because man did the story really suck me in after that. This author is a master at telling a story so you feel like you are right in the middle of all of the action. I highly recommend it. I could hear and feel the wind blowing. I only gave it 4 stars because some of the language is vulgar. There aren't like any graphic sex scenes or anything like that but some of the word choices were crude. Also, some of it reminded me of Twister the movie but I think any book about Tornadoes will do that.

Buzz Bernard knows weather, but better still Buzz Bernard knows how to wrap a twister of a story inside a real-live twister of a tornado. Protagonist Chuck's life is broken, and he's accepted his beer-for-breakfast as the highlight of his day when out of nowhere comes a million-dollar offer that just might repair a lot of that brokenness. There are conditions, of course, and the odds are against Chuck finding what this Hollywood hotshot wants him to find in an impossible time frame. But throwing caution and his steady job as a janitor to the, ahem, wind, Chuck decides to chase the pot of gold at the end of the tornado-to-end-all-tornadoes. There's a chance this might help him fix the sadness of a seemingly impossible-to-resolve conflict with his son. And, of course, along the way, a potential love interest jumps into the fray, a female agent chasing bad guys who chase storms. Add in the point man from Hollywood who holds the key to the golden money just happens to be in line for Jerk of the Year, and you have a cast of characters that Bernard, ahem, spins into conflicts, messes, disappointments and, ultimately not what the reader expects at the end. Bernard is a master of suspense (read "Plague" if you haven't already), and he uses knowledge gained in the weather industry to take us a lot more up-close-and-personal with Mother Nature than most authors can do. The result is that "Supercell" is a page turner, Grade EF-5. What's EF-5, you say? It's covered in "Supercell."

OK story line; good enough to keep me reading the book. As the main character developed, I liked his interaction with the other characters, his son, a woman FBI officer, a movie-maker and an unnamed character that makes an appearance at the end of the book. I didn't guess who (or what) it was until I got there! I recommend the book for readers who like to follow the development (or lack of it) of a mid-western storm that blows up trouble for anything in it's path. Beth Bristow

Buzz Bernard delivers a fast pace, thrill ride with his novel, Supercell. I was hooked from the first chapter and I couldn’t put the book down. I especially liked the fact that most of his characters were flawed and rough around the edges. The book had a realistic feel and I learned so much about tornadoes. Thanks to this author, I will never live in Oklahoma!

What a breathless romp through a storm-chasing adventure! I read some less-than-flattering reviews of this book from people who didn't appreciate what they called "language." Swearing, in other words. Well, folks, last I checked, we were all living in Grownup World, where people actually do talk like this. And anyone who's spent any time around real storm chasers would find the dialogue authentic and believable. Anything else would have been distracting in its lack thereof. I loved the fully drawn characters, the plot and most of all, the realistic severe weather descriptions. I have little time to read but plowed through this in two evenings, and immediately ordered Buzz Bernard's other weather-related novels. The only things that kept me from giving this book five stars were the weak motivation of the main female character to fall in love with the protagonist, whose apparent lack of redeeming qualities when she meets him beg the question, "What does she see in this guy?" And the number of spelling errors, typos and sometimes just wrong word indicating a lack of thorough editing and proofreading. But none of those was enough to keep me from thoroughly enjoying this book. Highly recommended to anyone who loves severe weather and edge-of-your-seat thrillers.

Go on the search for a monster tornado. Well worth the read.

I enjoyed Supercell. It had a lot of information regarding storms, weather and tornadoes..fun to read during a storm! That said, the characters were a bit over the top, and the relationships were predictable. I think the encounter with Monty was almost funny, it seemed so far reaching.That said, I did enjoy reading it, kept my interest all the way through. Seemed like Storm-chaser lite, I guess, With that, I would recommend if thats what you're looking for.

Not a great book but still entertaining.

Just finished it. He's a great writer.

Loved this book. So many characters in this story. Like Sam and Monty. Metcalfe's brought out the urge to throttle him, he was so obnoxious.