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The Fire Still Burns (2000)

by Crystal-Rain Love(Favorite Author)

3.63 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1479375187 (ISBN13: 9781479375189)

languge

English

genre

Romance

review 1: I really enjoyed this story. It was a romance and a mystery all wrapped up in one. Brynn left town as a teenager when she became pregnant (it was a VERY conservative town) and she left her high school sweetheart behind without telling him any of her reasons for leaving. She left him broken. Fast forward 13 years and this small town has an arsonist on the loose. Brynn is an experienced PI and volunteer fire fighter and is brought in to assist the town's only fire investigator, Adam. Adam is the boy she left behind, but he is certainly not a boy anymore. They, obviously, find it hard to work together and it leads to lots of conflict and passion. One of the things that bugged me about the story was her reasons for keeping her secret. As you can figure, it all eventua... morelly comes out, but there are just some things that need to be shared, sooner rather than later and I hated that it took so long to come out. I was drawn in by Brynn and Adam, loved the supporting characters as well as the mystery that they worked to solve.
review 2: Backstory: dreams are dashed (for reasons I won't write because I don't want to give anything away) and a hoped-for path in life is demolished.Current story: picking up the pieces of those demolished dreams when heroine and hero are forced back together.A very emotional, heart-wrenching story of redemption that I enjoyed reading (I must have--I stayed up until 3 AM to finish it!). It is a page-turner with strong(ish) main characters. The hero and heroine clearly are smitten with one another and it's fun to see how they work through the trauma of both the past and present to finally be together.I waffled back and forth between a 3 and 4 star rating because the secondary characters are all caricatures of personalities. There's the bible-thumpers, the surly-but-good-hearted sheriff, the golden-boy-who's-not-so-golden, etc. They all have a necessary role in the story but I would have preferred a bit more complexity and depth to their personalities. In particular, the hero comes from a pretty messed-up family but he is so gosh-darn normal. There has to be a reason for that--either he is extraordinarily heroic in overcoming the family background, or there were redeemable aspects to his family. The Fire Still Burns could have easily been a 5-star book had there been a bit more depth/explanation to the characters' personalities. As is, it's a 3.5 rating. I will definitely be reading more of this authors work! less

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