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Wildfire
Two women have a passionate interest in the same piece of land…
Elaine Thomas has a sworn duty to protect National Forest Service land, especially from vicious and destructive poachers. About to soundly scold a thoughtless squatter for camping out in rapidly approaching winter conditions, she’s flummoxed when she’s the one who gets a lecture about tromping on precious seedlings from a woman as beautiful—and possibly forbidding—as the high country itself.
Botanist Devon McKinney has permission to be camping in the protected area as part of her report on the area’s recovery from a toxic spill, but Ranger Elaine is not at all the ham-fisted voice of authority she’d expected in the Pacific Northwest high country. Nevertheless, she bristles at the suggestion that she doesn’t know how to survive the conditions.
Neither woman has any professional intention of tolerating the least deviation from her assignment. Fortunately, working together gets easier and easier, though both women may yet learn that a fire running wild will burn.
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Elaine Thomas has a sworn duty to protect National Forest Service land, especially from vicious and destructive poachers. About to soundly scold a thoughtless squatter for camping out in rapidly approaching winter conditions, she’s flummoxed when she’s the one who gets a lecture about tromping on precious seedlings from a woman as beautiful—and possibly forbidding—as the high country itself.
Botanist Devon McKinney has permission to be camping in the protected area as part of her report on the area’s recovery from a toxic spill, but Ranger Elaine is not at all the ham-fisted voice of authority she’d expected in the Pacific Northwest high country. Nevertheless, she bristles at the suggestion that she doesn’t know how to survive the conditions.
Neither woman has any professional intention of tolerating the least deviation from her assignment. Fortunately, working together gets easier and easier, though both women may yet learn that a fire running wild will burn.
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204 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 15, 2010
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July 28, 2021
3 stars
Well. The story was actually quite decent, somewhere between 3,5 and 3,75 stars.
BUT:
POV changes!!!
I get why the author prefers to change the POV's in order to show what everyone is thinking. However, if you want to do something like this, you should:
a) somehow mark the change in POV, because how the hell am I supposed to know which "she" are you talking about right now when you suddenly change it in the middle of the page.
b) when you switch the POV, keep it that way for more than two pages before switching back. It gives me whiplash and I have no clue who's mind I am in. This could be circumvented by better division of who is who.
"She" is a nice and useful pronoun but in lesfic it doesn't exactly explain which MC we're talking about.
Other than that, if you ignore the weird switches, it really wasn't half bad. But English is (technically speaking) my fourth language, so a confusing writing style really hampers my understanding and subsequent enjoyment of the plot and it annoys me immensely.
Well. The story was actually quite decent, somewhere between 3,5 and 3,75 stars.
BUT:
POV changes!!!
I get why the author prefers to change the POV's in order to show what everyone is thinking. However, if you want to do something like this, you should:
a) somehow mark the change in POV, because how the hell am I supposed to know which "she" are you talking about right now when you suddenly change it in the middle of the page.
b) when you switch the POV, keep it that way for more than two pages before switching back. It gives me whiplash and I have no clue who's mind I am in. This could be circumvented by better division of who is who.
"She" is a nice and useful pronoun but in lesfic it doesn't exactly explain which MC we're talking about.
Other than that, if you ignore the weird switches, it really wasn't half bad. But English is (technically speaking) my fourth language, so a confusing writing style really hampers my understanding and subsequent enjoyment of the plot and it annoys me immensely.
June 2, 2011
Captain Elaine Thomas of the US Forest Service takes an assignment at an isolated cabin to try and track down poachers. She's just broken up with her lover, who also works for the Forest Service, so she's happy to get away from everyone for a while. She has over a month to come to terms with her failed relationship, catch the poachers and babysit a botanist.
Botanist Devon McKinney has only a limited time frame to examine and test the recovery of the site of a toxic spill before she has to get back home for the birth of her sister's baby. She's not going to let anything slow her down, not even meeting the sexy Captain Thomas. Their growing attraction stumbles a little at the start, when Elaine struggles a little with being interested in someone so soon after her breakup, but her feelings for Devon are hard to ignore.
Wildfire is a sweet, straight forward romance which was very enjoyable to wile away the afternoon reading. I opened the book to check details while I was writing this and ended up reading the whole thing again. I'm looking forward to Lynn's next book, in fact she seems to have already laid the ground work, Devon's best friend Stacey is just screaming out to have her story told. If that's what Lynn intends, then I'll be first in line to purchase it.
Botanist Devon McKinney has only a limited time frame to examine and test the recovery of the site of a toxic spill before she has to get back home for the birth of her sister's baby. She's not going to let anything slow her down, not even meeting the sexy Captain Thomas. Their growing attraction stumbles a little at the start, when Elaine struggles a little with being interested in someone so soon after her breakup, but her feelings for Devon are hard to ignore.
Wildfire is a sweet, straight forward romance which was very enjoyable to wile away the afternoon reading. I opened the book to check details while I was writing this and ended up reading the whole thing again. I'm looking forward to Lynn's next book, in fact she seems to have already laid the ground work, Devon's best friend Stacey is just screaming out to have her story told. If that's what Lynn intends, then I'll be first in line to purchase it.
September 17, 2017
I must confess i skipped some pages especially at the begininning because i just felt bored by them but as i read on I believe the book took a more captivating turn the moment the chemistry between the two rumpled the sheets. I especially like the statement made by Devon that “Smart ladies love to have their women come home filthy, because it’s so very enjoyable helping them get all clean.”
September 2, 2019
Slow, predictable, but very nicely written.
The first paragraph is relatable.
The first paragraph is relatable.
November 29, 2021
This book was exactly what I needed! It made my heart so happy and instantly became my new comfort book.
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