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Rowan Tripp are una dintre cele mai periculoase meserii din lume. Inca de la varsta de optsprezece ani se lupta cu incendiile, lucrand ca pompier parasutist. Inca afectata de moartea lui Jim Brayer, partenerului ei de sarituri, cu un sezon in urma, Rowan nu vrea sa se lase atrasa de atentiile lui Gulliver Curry, un nou-venit in echipa, caci astfel si-ar incalca propria regula – de a nu avea vreodata o legatura sentimentala cu un coleg de munca. Cu toate acestea, Rowan si Gulliver devin tot mai apropiati, pe masura ce se arunca in lupta cu incendiile din Montana, Idaho, California şi Alaska. Dar problemele nu intarzie sa apara, cand fosta iubita a lui Jim o acuza pe Rowan de moartea acestuia, si raufacatori necunoscuti par sa saboteze eforturile grupului de pompieri, prin acte de vandalism si amenintari cu incendierea. Pentru prima data in viata, Rowan incepe sa simta nevoia disperata de a avea alaturi pe cineva pe care sa se poata baza, iar cand devine evident ca cineva urmareşte cu indarjire sa se razbune, isi da seama ca sprijinul lui Gulliver inseamna pentru ea mai mult decat si-ar fi imaginat vreodata. Va avea insa curajul de a-si incredinta sentimentele si viata unui necunoscut?
287 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2011
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Nora Roberts
1,209 books59.8k followersNora Roberts is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than 200 novels, including Hideaway, Under Currents, Come Sundown, The Awakening, Legacy, and coming in November 2021 -- The Becoming -- the second book in The Dragon Heart Legacy. She is also the author of the futuristic suspense In Death series written under the pen name J.D. Robb. There are more than 500 million copies of her books in print.
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August 12, 2024
1 star and I'm generous. This is a story. That is..not good in any particular way. And maybe I could be nicer, but I'm definetly not the target audience for this. Seems like something a 40 year old facebook mom would read in her free time.. In the '90. (ik facebook didn't exist back then, but those are the vibes)
So the story follows Rowan, a woman that is a paratrooper firefighter that meets Gull, a newbie at her job that falls in love with her. She has a policy of not dating co-workers, but flips him. That is the plot. Or if this was all the plot the book wouldn't be so bad. While their love story happens, Dolly, a woman who hates Rowan because she accuses her of her lover's death, tries to make Rowan's life "bad". This plot was out of nowhere and so unecessary that if I skipped over those pages, almost nothing would've been different. Like it has nothing to do with the love story and Dolly appears out of the sky, dissapears again and then I think she offs herself? God knows, but we'll get back to that in a second. *
So the story is all over the place and just has useless characters, but at least the romance is good, right? WRONGGG. I don't really see love between them, just lust. Gull likes her because of her apperance and because she is "badass" and "not like the other girls" which pisses me off soooo bad. All they do is make s3x jokes and just say how hot the other is. If I had 10 bucks everytime Gull said how sexy Rowan's body is, now I'd have enough to buy a new pair of Nikes. The same goes to Rowan in fetishizing Gull's muscles, or his fricking jaw or other stupid shit. Like I get, once, maybe twice, but everytime they were in the same room, they would think "how hot is Gull's ..../ Rowan's ....". And they kissed like 3 times before they hooked up, but even the first time Rowan was like "I don't like him, but this is ok, let me go talk to him". Girly.. And their entire relationship is found on s3x. After Gull asks if she likes him or not, they go flip in the shower and after half their moments are this. I'm not a smut fan and this helps my argument.
* Now I have the biggest issues with the writing. I get that you make different character pov's and stuff like that, no problem, and maybe not a separate chapter, but give some space. But not this. The transitions between Rowan's perspective to Gull's to Rowan's father (yes you read right) were so sudden that the first three senteces you don't even realise. Like Rowan talks and then appears Gull and now we read from his perspective. This is too sudden and done so poorly that by the end I didn't even want to try and guess who was who. And by the end we get some of Dolly's pov where she offs herself, so out of context that I had to use all my brain to try and figure out why that section was there. And to the note of poor writing, I could've not give TWO FLIPS about Rowan's father' story. Like his little date with a woman he just met and how they fliped even if they are like 60.. I didn't expect there to be smut and especially my first glips of smut in this book to be some old flips.
Now the thing that stopped me from rating this maybe 2 stars. Rowan. The main character is SOOOO pick me if I could've rolled my eyes out of my skull I would've. From the first pages she hates on other woman and says how she doesn't engage in "feminine activities like gossip" and how she doesn't like her female co-workers, but later wants advice from one of them. Miss inconsistent? She makes sexist jokes with Gull, has the most pick me aura and the thing that ruined it for me was the end. Gull out right calls her out for being JEALOUS ON HER DAD BECAUSE HE IS DATING AND NOT GIVING ALL HIS ATTENTION TO HER and because a dude dared to ask her about the death of Dolly. And then Rowan says it's not true and that Gull's opinion is shity, so after losing both men in her life she goes to cry. I get that her dad was the only one there for her, but to be out right jealous of another woman that stays with him and that mad on your "boyfriend" for trying to be nice to you is not it. She was just so annoying, Nora taking every moment she can to state how different she's from other girls and how she doesn't paint her nails and has ashes on her face. If they stopped at that s3x jokes it would've been better.
About Gull I have nothing to say. He is one of those "chill and sexy-charming guys that is best at everything he tries". Except of being sexist and hitting on Rowan or being with her and his job, he is nothing. Like no personality, no nothing. Why does he need his own thoughts? He's good at s3x!!
Overall, should you read this? No, please don't. Will I read the next book? Flip off no. Is this really spicy? For me, way to much because I have the tolerance of a fly. So don't read this. Thx.
So the story follows Rowan, a woman that is a paratrooper firefighter that meets Gull, a newbie at her job that falls in love with her. She has a policy of not dating co-workers, but flips him. That is the plot. Or if this was all the plot the book wouldn't be so bad. While their love story happens, Dolly, a woman who hates Rowan because she accuses her of her lover's death, tries to make Rowan's life "bad". This plot was out of nowhere and so unecessary that if I skipped over those pages, almost nothing would've been different. Like it has nothing to do with the love story and Dolly appears out of the sky, dissapears again and then I think she offs herself? God knows, but we'll get back to that in a second. *
So the story is all over the place and just has useless characters, but at least the romance is good, right? WRONGGG. I don't really see love between them, just lust. Gull likes her because of her apperance and because she is "badass" and "not like the other girls" which pisses me off soooo bad. All they do is make s3x jokes and just say how hot the other is. If I had 10 bucks everytime Gull said how sexy Rowan's body is, now I'd have enough to buy a new pair of Nikes. The same goes to Rowan in fetishizing Gull's muscles, or his fricking jaw or other stupid shit. Like I get, once, maybe twice, but everytime they were in the same room, they would think "how hot is Gull's ..../ Rowan's ....". And they kissed like 3 times before they hooked up, but even the first time Rowan was like "I don't like him, but this is ok, let me go talk to him". Girly.. And their entire relationship is found on s3x. After Gull asks if she likes him or not, they go flip in the shower and after half their moments are this. I'm not a smut fan and this helps my argument.
* Now I have the biggest issues with the writing. I get that you make different character pov's and stuff like that, no problem, and maybe not a separate chapter, but give some space. But not this. The transitions between Rowan's perspective to Gull's to Rowan's father (yes you read right) were so sudden that the first three senteces you don't even realise. Like Rowan talks and then appears Gull and now we read from his perspective. This is too sudden and done so poorly that by the end I didn't even want to try and guess who was who. And by the end we get some of Dolly's pov where she offs herself, so out of context that I had to use all my brain to try and figure out why that section was there. And to the note of poor writing, I could've not give TWO FLIPS about Rowan's father' story. Like his little date with a woman he just met and how they fliped even if they are like 60.. I didn't expect there to be smut and especially my first glips of smut in this book to be some old flips.
Now the thing that stopped me from rating this maybe 2 stars. Rowan. The main character is SOOOO pick me if I could've rolled my eyes out of my skull I would've. From the first pages she hates on other woman and says how she doesn't engage in "feminine activities like gossip" and how she doesn't like her female co-workers, but later wants advice from one of them. Miss inconsistent? She makes sexist jokes with Gull, has the most pick me aura and the thing that ruined it for me was the end. Gull out right calls her out for being JEALOUS ON HER DAD BECAUSE HE IS DATING AND NOT GIVING ALL HIS ATTENTION TO HER and because a dude dared to ask her about the death of Dolly. And then Rowan says it's not true and that Gull's opinion is shity, so after losing both men in her life she goes to cry. I get that her dad was the only one there for her, but to be out right jealous of another woman that stays with him and that mad on your "boyfriend" for trying to be nice to you is not it. She was just so annoying, Nora taking every moment she can to state how different she's from other girls and how she doesn't paint her nails and has ashes on her face. If they stopped at that s3x jokes it would've been better.
About Gull I have nothing to say. He is one of those "chill and sexy-charming guys that is best at everything he tries". Except of being sexist and hitting on Rowan or being with her and his job, he is nothing. Like no personality, no nothing. Why does he need his own thoughts? He's good at s3x!!
Overall, should you read this? No, please don't. Will I read the next book? Flip off no. Is this really spicy? For me, way to much because I have the tolerance of a fly. So don't read this. Thx.
November 28, 2025
The amount of times I rolled my eyes whenever I saw Rowan’s attitude/lines…
The story is not bad. It follows the life of a paratrooper, Rowan, and how at some point she starts liking a new paratrooper and someone that used to work as a cook in the base becomes her enemy and….wait, I won’t spoil it that much.
But what is annoying here is Rowan. Her character and her description. She is the ‘badass’ of the base she is working at, always hot, being portrayed as ‘the hottest’ too many unnecessary times, very witty and smart, and clearly she is having the pretty privilege. Almost everyone she is working with is a man that respects and likes her, she can do whatever she wants with them, they will always be like ‘wow Rowan you are the best woman’. Except for Gull that falls in love with her (and I understand that, while in love, you may see your crush as perfect), I do not understand why the other characters are so in love with her.
When two detectives appear, and especially DiCicco, a WOMAN detective, she starts talking disrespectfully, refuses to cooperate, acts like a pick me mostly.
Except one girl that appeared as a paratrooper at the beginning of the book and which magically vanishes during the plot, there is no other paratrooper woman at the base, no other feminine force that can do the ‘men work’, only and only her.
And when another character, Ella, appears and she is the girlfriend of his father, she just starts insulting that poor woman without even knowing her, just because ‘she kissed with my father, it is not ok’ and she considers she should be the only woman in the lives of the male characters here.
The story is not bad. It follows the life of a paratrooper, Rowan, and how at some point she starts liking a new paratrooper and someone that used to work as a cook in the base becomes her enemy and….wait, I won’t spoil it that much.
But what is annoying here is Rowan. Her character and her description. She is the ‘badass’ of the base she is working at, always hot, being portrayed as ‘the hottest’ too many unnecessary times, very witty and smart, and clearly she is having the pretty privilege. Almost everyone she is working with is a man that respects and likes her, she can do whatever she wants with them, they will always be like ‘wow Rowan you are the best woman’. Except for Gull that falls in love with her (and I understand that, while in love, you may see your crush as perfect), I do not understand why the other characters are so in love with her.
When two detectives appear, and especially DiCicco, a WOMAN detective, she starts talking disrespectfully, refuses to cooperate, acts like a pick me mostly.
Except one girl that appeared as a paratrooper at the beginning of the book and which magically vanishes during the plot, there is no other paratrooper woman at the base, no other feminine force that can do the ‘men work’, only and only her.
And when another character, Ella, appears and she is the girlfriend of his father, she just starts insulting that poor woman without even knowing her, just because ‘she kissed with my father, it is not ok’ and she considers she should be the only woman in the lives of the male characters here.
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