Reviewed by Taylin
TITLE: Love Like A Fire Whirl
SERIES: A Wildlands Firefighter Romance
AUTHOR: Darragha Foster
PUBLISHER: Victory Women Press
LENGTH: 66 Pages
RELEASE DATE: November 30, 2021
BLURB:
Lovers to enemies. Enemies to hotshots fighting a forest fire. Hotshots with a past more blistering than the flames before them. Loving Tribulation Brewster was as hot and all-consuming as a July brushfire. It burned him out. Jack recognized that too much booze and too much blind love wasn’t going to make a relationship–and he left. Fifteen years later Jack Reyna and Trib Brewster meet up on a fire line during the biggest forest fire in a decade. Only Jack’s the boss. And Trib is a convict worker. Will nothing short of a fire whirl keep them from reuniting?
REVIEW:
Delving into several vices is how Jack coped with leaving the love of his life, Trib. For the last fourteen years, he’d been a good boy and has the sobriety medallion to prove it. Supervising a convict fire line, Jack has the shock of his life when one of the men is that ex-love. Unfortunately, fire is a mistress that doesn’t care about the past. Trib and Jack end up in the middle of a forest fire, with only their firefighting experience and heat that rekindles more than the trees.
Okay, so this is hot, heavy, and involves firefighters, so it’s always worth reading. However, while the underlying theme is super sweet firefighters rekindling their passion, there were a few things that caused me to pause.
The story is told in the third person, mostly from Jack’s viewpoint, although Trib’s voice pops up here and there. Both have internal monologues, which appear in the same typeface as the body of the book. With no way to highlight them, and until one realizes what’s happening, it seems as though the tale is switching tense from third to first person, which was a touch confusing.
Love Like A Fire Whirl begins with a prologue. While these have multiple uses, this particular one gives the reader the end of the book before it’s started. The result was that despite some super-hot dramatic imagery, knowing the end robbed me of the heart-stopping, page-turning, will they survive, what happens next thrill.
Jack and Trib are heroes, and it is clear from the dialogue that the author researched firefighting terminology. Albeit some of the slang elements left me using educated guesses as to their meaning, they were in keeping with the story. I am not knowledgeable about the characteristics of fires, but I can imagine that just about anything can happen in the middle of such a destructive force of nature. However, I found it a touch unbelievable that a blowjob would be the order of the day while surrounded by nature’s flames. Passion in the face of death, I get, but ‘give me some juice before we move on’ – Ummm?????
Overall, this is a story with a couple of lovely firefighting heroes and super imagery. But the way it was put together, coupled with some scenes that didn’t quite gel, leaving me with questions, made it fall a bit short of the mark. Nevertheless, there’s always a case of the right read fits the right mood, and this story is fluff in a fire.
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