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Fire in the Wind
Did he love her or did he only want revenge?He had Jace’s eyes- dark and compelling. those eyes carried Vanessa back ten years to the magic of Jace, the glow of their love. But Jace was lost to her, forever.This unexpected encounter in Vancouver with Jake, Jace’s cousin, was a cruel twist of fate- all her bittersweet memories resurfaced. And then she had to face the stormy emotions that Jake aroused.Vanessa knew Jake Condrad wanted her; his touch enflamed her. But she also knew the danger of falling in love with a haunting reminder of her first love- and Jake had his own demons to fight…
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May 30, 2016
Objectively, I don't know if it's that great of a book, but this one pushed alllll my buttons. He loves her even though he doesn't trust her, and thinks she's shallow, and that she will leave him...gahhhh
December 10, 2018
A new author for me and a new series of western drama and suspense. I found this book and three others in the lending library of my VFW post. Someone else had enjoyed them, then passed them on. Riefe is a good writer and crafts an authentic drama and suspenseful story. I'm looking forward to the next book and discovering more from this writer.
October 18, 2024
This book had a few good points, like the Canadian history info, the story of Terry Fox (which made me want to cry), and the crash course in starting your own business (in this case, fashion design) and all that goes with it, and that includes a lot of difficult decisions, mundane details and compromises that my go against your principles. In this story, the h needed to use sub-contractors to get work done for the next several seasons, which meant using off-the-books employees who were immigrants or on welfare, and everyone knows how crappy they can be treated! Sad to say, the h was willing to compromise her principles in favor of getting her designs out on time and did the same thing she used to get angry at her former boss for doing. No, the h in this story was not always a nice person.
Neither was the H. But before I get to that, I have to take a bit of umbrage with the (obviously Canadian) author's air of smugness when it comes to her native country. More than once she implied that Canadians have a better attitude than Americans, they're less fast-paced, less prone to violence, have more impulse control, are cleverer (Canadians used electric kettles while Americans used the old stove-top ones), and anyone can walk late at night in a public park and never get mugged! (Yeah, I'll bet!)
As an American, I was getting a bit miffed! It seemed she wanted her readers to stand up and sing the Canadian Anthem, while waving the maple leaf flag!
I'll skip the flag, but how's this: "OH, CANADA!!!!!"
And now: "OH, SAY CAN YOU SEE, BY THE DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT!!!!"
(I have both the stars and stripes AND an electric kettle, BTW!)
Okay I feel better now!
Back to the story! This book started out intriguing, as you get the H's POV, when he arrives at a cocktail party for the fashion industry in a hotel that he owns. You discover he's got a lot of anger simmering beneath the surface, and that he's waiting for someone, someone he obviously has a grudge against, and you sense this guy's out for revenge! You're also made aware that he's wealthy, socially prominent and a player, who has his fun with a woman and moves onto the next without a problem, at least not for him. You just know this man's been hurt in the past, and that the one that did the hurting is the h!
After that, you never get the H's POV again, just the h's. It was that way because you're made to learn step by step how the H is taking his revenge, wanting to hurt her where he thinks it'll hurt the most; by setting her up in business so he can set her up for a fall!
Their story could have been set up so much better. It got off to a good start, with the H and h meeting in a hospital where she was volunteering and he was recovering grom a bad accident, all scarred and needing surgery. This was in New York, and by the time he has to get back to Vancouver, they're in love and had slept together. (The fact that she was pre-engaged to her childhood sweetheart - the OM - didn't seem to bother her). They make future plans, he goes home, and the next thing you know, she's married to the guy she cheated on. Why? Because, at only 19 and full of gratitude to her surrogate family, now that her parents are dead, when her future mother-in-law tells her the OM is dying, and he'll croak in less than a year. So why not make him happy for that time and then look go back to her true love, just write the guy, he'll understand.
Yeah, right! She couldn't even tell him the truth (promising to keep the OM's condition a secret as even he didn't know) so her "Dear John" letter didn't go over too well. But she kept thinking he'd show up, declare his love and tell her no way could she marry another guy! Instead, he became bitter, then tough, and kept his heart closed and his zipper open to half the women in Vancouver, while she married the OM, thought of the H while they got naked, and waited for hubby to croak!
But guess what??? He didn't, at least not right away! It seems her in-laws, despite being wealthy and with access to the best medical care, took the word of a dumb ass doctor who must have got his medical education from reading comic books! He misdiagnosed, got the wrong disease, and this one won't kill him for a decade!
I'm guessing the OM's mom thought he'd be too ill to get it up, therefore the h wouldn't be betraying the H in a physical sense, and then when the misdiagnosis was discovered (I'd have loved to see the look on Dr. Dumbo's face when that bit of news was revealed to the family), she probably figured, too late now!
But, what the heck! The OM's rich, they go out dining and dancing, travel everywhere, go sailing, and she also goes to college (to her credit, she works to pay her own way) and then starts her designing career, so she didn't exactly suffer.
Neither did the H, who had fun bed-hopping from one gorgeous woman to another (in an early scene, the h catches him making out with a half-naked model) while building himself a powerful financial empire that includes gold mines.
I'd say they both did pretty good, though we're supposed to believe they've suffered for the past decade without each other. I DON'T THINK SO!
I think the whole way the OM was treated in this story was crappy! The h cheats on him, marries him under false pretenses (she later claims she was fond of him and if she hadn't met the H might have thought she really loved him, oh BARF!), didn't want children (figuring she'd end up a single mom when he kicked the old bucket), then, when he finds out the truth (HORRORS!!!) about their marriage, she offers to be a good sport and get pregnant (as penance???) but he refuses (good for him!) and then tells her (rightfully so) that she cheated him out of finding a girl who really loved him, not one who married him out of pity!
Even worse, when that disease caught up with him and he was actually dying, she apparently was dating other men, because when she kisses the H again, she thinks to herself that none of the men who kissed her in the past few years made her feel that way. Since the OM had only been dead a year, that means she was stepping out on him while he was still around.
Don't you just love her????
The whole book got bat crap too many times, with too many contradictions. We're told Vancouver is a conservative city, next we're told it's full of eccentrics. Which one is it???
The h says time and again how much starting her own fashion business means to her, as if it's part of her identity, then next thing, she's telling herself that without the H, nothing - including the business - means anything. Next thing again, she's planning to fight tooth and nail to hang onto the business, no matter how many legal roadblocks the vengeful H puts in her way (and of course, she now hates him)!
The h moves to the city to start the aforementioned business, and you hear so much about how hard she works, even nights and weekends, yet she apparently has time to join a health club, play tennis, go to dinner parties and date a lawyer. Makes sense, right?????
Yes, both she and the H date others, as he continues seeing someone (the OW) who he'd been sleeping with before the h came back into his life, and you have to guess whether or not he was still getting naked with her. The h apparently didn't get beyond some kisses with the 2nd OM.
Naturally, the H and h hit the sheets, but she doesn't know it's the h, since he's pretending to be his own cousin, telling her that the h was dead!!!! Altogether now: "WTF!!!!!" (Don't forget, she never saw the h without scars on his face so she wouldn't have recognized him, after all the cosmetic surgery he had.) He then claims he knew so much about her from things his "cousin" confided to him before he died! For a guy about to croak, "cousin" sure was long winded!
Yes, he was playing a deliberate game, but it was so damn DUMB!!! He makes it clear he wants her in bed, yet also says he doesn't like her, thinks she's a gold-digger who dumped his cousin because the OM was wealthy. She wanted to tell him the truth, but kept putting it off, and when she finally does, it backfires on her.
He acts like he cares, then takes it back. She tries to act indifferent but can't manage it for long. They have wild, passionate sex, he acts like it meant nothing, she gets hurt and angry, they vow to stay away from each other, break those vows left and right, on and on it goes!
A couple of things were funny, so it wasn't all bat crap drama! Her former boss was good for a laugh, and so was the obviously gay designer she had gone to college with and shared an apartment with back then (which explains why she didn't mind him seeing her half naked). There was also her revenge on the H, when he kept making snark remarks about paying her for services rendered after they hit the sheets yet again. She went out and bought a diamond ring (knowing he hated wearing jewelry) and had it sent to him as payment! Still, it was kind of dumb, because she spent money that she really couldn't afford. What she should have done was bought faux diamonds, and put a note saying, "I decided on fakes, since you weren't all that good." Now, THAT'S revenge!!
Another bat-crap part is bringing her former brother-in-law into the story, long enough to find out he was in love with her back when she married his kid brother, but since he was a lot older than her (as well as married) he couldn't admit his feelings, so he wanted to talk her out of the marriage, so she'd disappear somewhere and he wouldn't be tempted by her. Then, he claims he's only telling her all this after a decade because he's not in love with her anymore, so what the heck?
CAN YOU GET ANY DUMBER???
You sure can, with all the nonsense the H and h put each other through! Between vows of revenge (from both of them), shady business tactics, threats of lawsuits, a sex scene that's more like a rape, a temper tantrum scene where the h is throwing papers around, hitting the H, kicking, screaming, and acting like the poster girl for bipolar meds, and the H constantly waffling between, "I want you", "I'll destroy you", "I can't stop thinking about you", "You're nothing to me but fun in the sack", etc., ! And it keeps getting worse!
The H keeps vowing he'll never see her again, then he shows up again for more bedroom fun. The h tells him it's over, she hates him now, throws him out of her apartment, then she about-faces and declares her love and practically begs him to make love to her! The H says she's an unworthy woman, then he turns that about and says he himself is an unworthy man! At one point, she tells him he's evil, has no soul, etc., and she's done with him for good, determining to keep him out of her life from now on! Next thing you know, she's missing him so much she can't stand it! He, meanwhile, gets to a point where he tells her he knows she's not capable of real love, but he'll take what he can get, even if it doesn't last long, even though he's sure she'll get tired of him. WHAT????
How did he go from alpha jerk to beta simp???
It goes on for so long like this, that at the end (after we hear about his mommy issues), when they declare their undying love (like either of them is capable of that) and it's like those ten years never happened (what a load of BULL!!!), you're left thinking, "WHO THE HELL CARES!!!!!!"
I know I didn't!
The hokey ending was so ridiculous it makes you want to laugh and barf at the same time.
Read it for the Canadian history and fashion design info. As for the "love story" (my BUTT!!), FORGET IT!!!!
Neither was the H. But before I get to that, I have to take a bit of umbrage with the (obviously Canadian) author's air of smugness when it comes to her native country. More than once she implied that Canadians have a better attitude than Americans, they're less fast-paced, less prone to violence, have more impulse control, are cleverer (Canadians used electric kettles while Americans used the old stove-top ones), and anyone can walk late at night in a public park and never get mugged! (Yeah, I'll bet!)
As an American, I was getting a bit miffed! It seemed she wanted her readers to stand up and sing the Canadian Anthem, while waving the maple leaf flag!
I'll skip the flag, but how's this: "OH, CANADA!!!!!"
And now: "OH, SAY CAN YOU SEE, BY THE DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT!!!!"
(I have both the stars and stripes AND an electric kettle, BTW!)
Okay I feel better now!
Back to the story! This book started out intriguing, as you get the H's POV, when he arrives at a cocktail party for the fashion industry in a hotel that he owns. You discover he's got a lot of anger simmering beneath the surface, and that he's waiting for someone, someone he obviously has a grudge against, and you sense this guy's out for revenge! You're also made aware that he's wealthy, socially prominent and a player, who has his fun with a woman and moves onto the next without a problem, at least not for him. You just know this man's been hurt in the past, and that the one that did the hurting is the h!
After that, you never get the H's POV again, just the h's. It was that way because you're made to learn step by step how the H is taking his revenge, wanting to hurt her where he thinks it'll hurt the most; by setting her up in business so he can set her up for a fall!
Their story could have been set up so much better. It got off to a good start, with the H and h meeting in a hospital where she was volunteering and he was recovering grom a bad accident, all scarred and needing surgery. This was in New York, and by the time he has to get back to Vancouver, they're in love and had slept together. (The fact that she was pre-engaged to her childhood sweetheart - the OM - didn't seem to bother her). They make future plans, he goes home, and the next thing you know, she's married to the guy she cheated on. Why? Because, at only 19 and full of gratitude to her surrogate family, now that her parents are dead, when her future mother-in-law tells her the OM is dying, and he'll croak in less than a year. So why not make him happy for that time and then look go back to her true love, just write the guy, he'll understand.
Yeah, right! She couldn't even tell him the truth (promising to keep the OM's condition a secret as even he didn't know) so her "Dear John" letter didn't go over too well. But she kept thinking he'd show up, declare his love and tell her no way could she marry another guy! Instead, he became bitter, then tough, and kept his heart closed and his zipper open to half the women in Vancouver, while she married the OM, thought of the H while they got naked, and waited for hubby to croak!
But guess what??? He didn't, at least not right away! It seems her in-laws, despite being wealthy and with access to the best medical care, took the word of a dumb ass doctor who must have got his medical education from reading comic books! He misdiagnosed, got the wrong disease, and this one won't kill him for a decade!
I'm guessing the OM's mom thought he'd be too ill to get it up, therefore the h wouldn't be betraying the H in a physical sense, and then when the misdiagnosis was discovered (I'd have loved to see the look on Dr. Dumbo's face when that bit of news was revealed to the family), she probably figured, too late now!
But, what the heck! The OM's rich, they go out dining and dancing, travel everywhere, go sailing, and she also goes to college (to her credit, she works to pay her own way) and then starts her designing career, so she didn't exactly suffer.
Neither did the H, who had fun bed-hopping from one gorgeous woman to another (in an early scene, the h catches him making out with a half-naked model) while building himself a powerful financial empire that includes gold mines.
I'd say they both did pretty good, though we're supposed to believe they've suffered for the past decade without each other. I DON'T THINK SO!
I think the whole way the OM was treated in this story was crappy! The h cheats on him, marries him under false pretenses (she later claims she was fond of him and if she hadn't met the H might have thought she really loved him, oh BARF!), didn't want children (figuring she'd end up a single mom when he kicked the old bucket), then, when he finds out the truth (HORRORS!!!) about their marriage, she offers to be a good sport and get pregnant (as penance???) but he refuses (good for him!) and then tells her (rightfully so) that she cheated him out of finding a girl who really loved him, not one who married him out of pity!
Even worse, when that disease caught up with him and he was actually dying, she apparently was dating other men, because when she kisses the H again, she thinks to herself that none of the men who kissed her in the past few years made her feel that way. Since the OM had only been dead a year, that means she was stepping out on him while he was still around.
Don't you just love her????
The whole book got bat crap too many times, with too many contradictions. We're told Vancouver is a conservative city, next we're told it's full of eccentrics. Which one is it???
The h says time and again how much starting her own fashion business means to her, as if it's part of her identity, then next thing, she's telling herself that without the H, nothing - including the business - means anything. Next thing again, she's planning to fight tooth and nail to hang onto the business, no matter how many legal roadblocks the vengeful H puts in her way (and of course, she now hates him)!
The h moves to the city to start the aforementioned business, and you hear so much about how hard she works, even nights and weekends, yet she apparently has time to join a health club, play tennis, go to dinner parties and date a lawyer. Makes sense, right?????
Yes, both she and the H date others, as he continues seeing someone (the OW) who he'd been sleeping with before the h came back into his life, and you have to guess whether or not he was still getting naked with her. The h apparently didn't get beyond some kisses with the 2nd OM.
Naturally, the H and h hit the sheets, but she doesn't know it's the h, since he's pretending to be his own cousin, telling her that the h was dead!!!! Altogether now: "WTF!!!!!" (Don't forget, she never saw the h without scars on his face so she wouldn't have recognized him, after all the cosmetic surgery he had.) He then claims he knew so much about her from things his "cousin" confided to him before he died! For a guy about to croak, "cousin" sure was long winded!
Yes, he was playing a deliberate game, but it was so damn DUMB!!! He makes it clear he wants her in bed, yet also says he doesn't like her, thinks she's a gold-digger who dumped his cousin because the OM was wealthy. She wanted to tell him the truth, but kept putting it off, and when she finally does, it backfires on her.
He acts like he cares, then takes it back. She tries to act indifferent but can't manage it for long. They have wild, passionate sex, he acts like it meant nothing, she gets hurt and angry, they vow to stay away from each other, break those vows left and right, on and on it goes!
A couple of things were funny, so it wasn't all bat crap drama! Her former boss was good for a laugh, and so was the obviously gay designer she had gone to college with and shared an apartment with back then (which explains why she didn't mind him seeing her half naked). There was also her revenge on the H, when he kept making snark remarks about paying her for services rendered after they hit the sheets yet again. She went out and bought a diamond ring (knowing he hated wearing jewelry) and had it sent to him as payment! Still, it was kind of dumb, because she spent money that she really couldn't afford. What she should have done was bought faux diamonds, and put a note saying, "I decided on fakes, since you weren't all that good." Now, THAT'S revenge!!
Another bat-crap part is bringing her former brother-in-law into the story, long enough to find out he was in love with her back when she married his kid brother, but since he was a lot older than her (as well as married) he couldn't admit his feelings, so he wanted to talk her out of the marriage, so she'd disappear somewhere and he wouldn't be tempted by her. Then, he claims he's only telling her all this after a decade because he's not in love with her anymore, so what the heck?
CAN YOU GET ANY DUMBER???
You sure can, with all the nonsense the H and h put each other through! Between vows of revenge (from both of them), shady business tactics, threats of lawsuits, a sex scene that's more like a rape, a temper tantrum scene where the h is throwing papers around, hitting the H, kicking, screaming, and acting like the poster girl for bipolar meds, and the H constantly waffling between, "I want you", "I'll destroy you", "I can't stop thinking about you", "You're nothing to me but fun in the sack", etc., ! And it keeps getting worse!
The H keeps vowing he'll never see her again, then he shows up again for more bedroom fun. The h tells him it's over, she hates him now, throws him out of her apartment, then she about-faces and declares her love and practically begs him to make love to her! The H says she's an unworthy woman, then he turns that about and says he himself is an unworthy man! At one point, she tells him he's evil, has no soul, etc., and she's done with him for good, determining to keep him out of her life from now on! Next thing you know, she's missing him so much she can't stand it! He, meanwhile, gets to a point where he tells her he knows she's not capable of real love, but he'll take what he can get, even if it doesn't last long, even though he's sure she'll get tired of him. WHAT????
How did he go from alpha jerk to beta simp???
It goes on for so long like this, that at the end (after we hear about his mommy issues), when they declare their undying love (like either of them is capable of that) and it's like those ten years never happened (what a load of BULL!!!), you're left thinking, "WHO THE HELL CARES!!!!!!"
I know I didn't!
The hokey ending was so ridiculous it makes you want to laugh and barf at the same time.
Read it for the Canadian history and fashion design info. As for the "love story" (my BUTT!!), FORGET IT!!!!
July 8, 2013
I've really enjoyed the early books from Alexandra Sellers, and this book is no exception. An intelligent, strong woman struggles with her relationship to a very complicated man. A real page turner!
Alexandra's books feature richly developed characters that will captivate you. In this book, she's created a strong protagonist who struggles with her feelings for a man while at the same time battling her emotional scars from a past relationship. The transformation that both characters undergo in the book is realistic and fascinating. This is a book you won't be able to put down.
I highly recommend this book. It's full of emotional ups and downs, and it won't let you down in the end.
Disclaimer: I know the author personally and work with her through my company, Tribal Publishing, which helps authors build their online platform using social media. Our professional relationship did not affect this honest review.
Alexandra's books feature richly developed characters that will captivate you. In this book, she's created a strong protagonist who struggles with her feelings for a man while at the same time battling her emotional scars from a past relationship. The transformation that both characters undergo in the book is realistic and fascinating. This is a book you won't be able to put down.
I highly recommend this book. It's full of emotional ups and downs, and it won't let you down in the end.
Disclaimer: I know the author personally and work with her through my company, Tribal Publishing, which helps authors build their online platform using social media. Our professional relationship did not affect this honest review.
April 27, 2013
This novel was just SOO messed up. There was so many emotional points in this novel. It had me going back and forth. For a while there, I ever felt like I was a little bit crazy.
November 2, 2018
This book is like a soap opera. You've got the guy who is injured, has plastic surgery and is unrecognizable. You have a chick who dumps the man she loves for another dude she's told has cancer. And none of these mental giants thought to use a telephone? Wtf. It's too stupid to have any basis in reality. The whole plot is like Swiss cheese and hinges on every reader being a dumbass.
July 1, 2013
Originally posted in Adria's Romance Reviews
Fire in the Wind is a story about revenge and love. In that order and it makes for a very interesting read. It didn't take me long to realize that Jake and Vanessa were going to take me on a roller coaster ride.
Ten years before, Vanessa Standish met and fell in love with Jace Conrad while he was recovering from a terrible accident. After promising to send her a ticket to join him, Jace left New York and Vanessa for additional treatment in his hometown of Vancouver. However, circumstances kept Vanessa from reuniting with Jace. She ended up married to another man and Jace died shortly after receiving her "Dear John" letter.
Now Vanessa is faced with Jace's furious, look-alike cousin. Jake wants answers that only Vanessa can give him. He also wants revenge on her for what he sees as her role in his cousin's death. Throughout the whole book, Jake struggles with the half that wants revenge and the half that wants to let go of the past and try to make a future with Vanessa.
These were two characters that life had dealt nasty blows to and they were reacting in a very realistic manner. As frustrating as Jake and Vanessa were as a couple, they were also interesting and realistic. These two had huge obstacles to overcome and it didn't happen overnight. In fact, it almost didn't happen at all. There were so many misunderstandings between Jake and Vanessa that I started to give up hope that they would ever work things out.
Alexandra Sellers did a wonderful job of fleshing out her characters and giving them life. They're beautifully flawed, frustratingly complicated and endearingly charming. Vanessa is a strong heroine in terms of her job and her life but she is hauntingly fragile emotionally and it balanced her independent lifestyle very well. After all, no one likes a too perfect heroine.
I was surprised at how much I enjoyed Fire in the Wind being that the relationship between Jake and Vanessa was at times truly dysfunctional and complicated.
Fire in the Wind is a story about revenge and love. In that order and it makes for a very interesting read. It didn't take me long to realize that Jake and Vanessa were going to take me on a roller coaster ride.
Ten years before, Vanessa Standish met and fell in love with Jace Conrad while he was recovering from a terrible accident. After promising to send her a ticket to join him, Jace left New York and Vanessa for additional treatment in his hometown of Vancouver. However, circumstances kept Vanessa from reuniting with Jace. She ended up married to another man and Jace died shortly after receiving her "Dear John" letter.
Now Vanessa is faced with Jace's furious, look-alike cousin. Jake wants answers that only Vanessa can give him. He also wants revenge on her for what he sees as her role in his cousin's death. Throughout the whole book, Jake struggles with the half that wants revenge and the half that wants to let go of the past and try to make a future with Vanessa.
These were two characters that life had dealt nasty blows to and they were reacting in a very realistic manner. As frustrating as Jake and Vanessa were as a couple, they were also interesting and realistic. These two had huge obstacles to overcome and it didn't happen overnight. In fact, it almost didn't happen at all. There were so many misunderstandings between Jake and Vanessa that I started to give up hope that they would ever work things out.
Alexandra Sellers did a wonderful job of fleshing out her characters and giving them life. They're beautifully flawed, frustratingly complicated and endearingly charming. Vanessa is a strong heroine in terms of her job and her life but she is hauntingly fragile emotionally and it balanced her independent lifestyle very well. After all, no one likes a too perfect heroine.
I was surprised at how much I enjoyed Fire in the Wind being that the relationship between Jake and Vanessa was at times truly dysfunctional and complicated.
August 11, 2016
Review written: August 26, 2013
Star Rating: ★★★☆☆
Heat Rating: ☀☀☀☼☼
This book was received free via the author for an honest review and reviewed for My Book Addiction Reviews, where you can see my full review.
Fire in the Wind by Alexandra Sellers was originally written as a Harlequin Superromance, but has been re-edited and released as an Author’s Cut. This book has so many wonderful touches of Canadian culture. Mentions of John A. Macdonald and Terry Fox were quite special (made all the sweeter by the fact that Terry Fox is a personal hero for me). They were teaching moments in the book and such a great way to add a truly Canadian touch. This is one of Sellers’ really strong points as an author. Tidbits about labor law, fashion differences between Americans and Canadians, the “young” Vancouver, and media outlets really gave Fire in the Wind an excellent sense of place.
Unfortunately, this book had a hard time recovering from Vanessa’s utter stupidity. It made it harder to forgive her and harder to imagine Jake with her.
This short form of the full review is ©August 2013 by Monique N.
Star Rating: ★★★☆☆
Heat Rating: ☀☀☀☼☼
This book was received free via the author for an honest review and reviewed for My Book Addiction Reviews, where you can see my full review.
Fire in the Wind by Alexandra Sellers was originally written as a Harlequin Superromance, but has been re-edited and released as an Author’s Cut. This book has so many wonderful touches of Canadian culture. Mentions of John A. Macdonald and Terry Fox were quite special (made all the sweeter by the fact that Terry Fox is a personal hero for me). They were teaching moments in the book and such a great way to add a truly Canadian touch. This is one of Sellers’ really strong points as an author. Tidbits about labor law, fashion differences between Americans and Canadians, the “young” Vancouver, and media outlets really gave Fire in the Wind an excellent sense of place.
Unfortunately, this book had a hard time recovering from Vanessa’s utter stupidity. It made it harder to forgive her and harder to imagine Jake with her.
This short form of the full review is ©August 2013 by Monique N.
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February 13, 2016308p Jace was dead. Jace, whose love she had carried in her heart for ten long years. Vanessa had finally fulfilled her promise to come to him, but too late. Now she could never explain, never find the forgiveness she had yearned for all these years 14never again experience the overwhelming love they had shared.
Jace's look-alike cousin Jake was willing to act as stand-in for her dead love, and the fire he ignited in her might burn all her life 26but what was in it for Jake? He wasn't pretending to forgive her for the fatal hurt she'd caused his cousin. Did he really want her? Or did he only want revenge?
Jace's look-alike cousin Jake was willing to act as stand-in for her dead love, and the fire he ignited in her might burn all her life 26but what was in it for Jake? He wasn't pretending to forgive her for the fatal hurt she'd caused his cousin. Did he really want her? Or did he only want revenge?
November 15, 2013
This is one of those books that will frustrate you will all the mishaps and misunderstandings but it is more than worth it by the end of the book. You really, really should read this book. Jake is bent on revenge but will he get it or something else in return. Very well written book by Alexandra Sellers. I give it 4 stars.
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