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Touched By Fire
Who wants Samantha Ellis dead?
Firefighter and arson investigator Samantha Ellis has a tough facade that belies her beauty-pageant exterior. Even in the hottest fire Sam stays cool--unless her boss, smoldering chief detective AJ Branson, is anywhere near the scene. Brooding AJ has made a mess of romance in the past, and he's sworn off love--and Sam--at all costs. But he can't deny that the sparks flying between them are hotter than any four-alarm blaze. And when Sam's life is threatened, it's AJ who comes to her rescue. If only the chemistry between her and her elusive boss were the only combustible thing in Sam's life--
Firefighter and arson investigator Samantha Ellis has a tough facade that belies her beauty-pageant exterior. Even in the hottest fire Sam stays cool--unless her boss, smoldering chief detective AJ Branson, is anywhere near the scene. Brooding AJ has made a mess of romance in the past, and he's sworn off love--and Sam--at all costs. But he can't deny that the sparks flying between them are hotter than any four-alarm blaze. And when Sam's life is threatened, it's AJ who comes to her rescue. If only the chemistry between her and her elusive boss were the only combustible thing in Sam's life--
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242 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published October 1, 2007
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July 2, 2008
I keep thinking of that saying: if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all. I tried really hard to like this book, but right from the start it irked me. I kept reading hoping it would get better. It did, but only marginally.
I just can't abide TSTL heroines. And for most of this book, Sam might as well as have had a sign over her head that said "To Stupid To Live." Why? Let's see, first there's the fact that someone tried to burn down her house while she's sleeping...but does she call the cops? Fire department (of which she is a member)? No, she tucks the device into an envelope and goes about her day like it's any other. Maybe it's just me, but that's ridiculously stupid. Then...yes, there's more...someone blows up her SUV when she should have been in it, then cuts the brake lines to TWO cars, one she was supposed to be in, the other she actually was in, and THEN sets her up to die in a fire she was fighting. But does this have any effect on her? No, not particularly. She still goes about her life like all's well. Umm, sorry, but if you're going to be that idiotic, maybe the killer should do you in. And everyone else for that matter because they were all rather TSTL as well. When someone tries to kill a woman FOUR times, maybe someone should DO SOMETHING. Like police protection, a safe house...just SOMETHING. Not let her go about life like it's any other day.
And it also drove me nuts that for like the first hundred pages, the hero and heroine seemed to go into a catatonic lust whenever they got near each other. There's lust, and then there's WTF?
The plot had a lot of potential, but too much of the story focused on the hero and heroine waffling back and forth over whether they really wanted each other and the plot was left rather neglected. I liked it as a base, but the execution left something to be desired when not one of the characters seemed to have an ounce of common sense. I'm surprised they all didn't end up dead.
Bad logic in books just really drives me nuts. Hence the fact that this one barely escaped being three-point practice for my trash can.
I just can't abide TSTL heroines. And for most of this book, Sam might as well as have had a sign over her head that said "To Stupid To Live." Why? Let's see, first there's the fact that someone tried to burn down her house while she's sleeping...but does she call the cops? Fire department (of which she is a member)? No, she tucks the device into an envelope and goes about her day like it's any other. Maybe it's just me, but that's ridiculously stupid. Then...yes, there's more...someone blows up her SUV when she should have been in it, then cuts the brake lines to TWO cars, one she was supposed to be in, the other she actually was in, and THEN sets her up to die in a fire she was fighting. But does this have any effect on her? No, not particularly. She still goes about her life like all's well. Umm, sorry, but if you're going to be that idiotic, maybe the killer should do you in. And everyone else for that matter because they were all rather TSTL as well. When someone tries to kill a woman FOUR times, maybe someone should DO SOMETHING. Like police protection, a safe house...just SOMETHING. Not let her go about life like it's any other day.
And it also drove me nuts that for like the first hundred pages, the hero and heroine seemed to go into a catatonic lust whenever they got near each other. There's lust, and then there's WTF?
The plot had a lot of potential, but too much of the story focused on the hero and heroine waffling back and forth over whether they really wanted each other and the plot was left rather neglected. I liked it as a base, but the execution left something to be desired when not one of the characters seemed to have an ounce of common sense. I'm surprised they all didn't end up dead.
Bad logic in books just really drives me nuts. Hence the fact that this one barely escaped being three-point practice for my trash can.
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