Review: Healing fire is a pricey read but good
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 27, 2013
I've wanted to read some of Angela Castle's e-books for awhile but put it off as I felt the, at the time, that the prices were too high for what I consider short stories.  Well, today I took the plunge and bought this one because it caught my eye.  It interested me on a personal level because it is a story I could relate to in that the heroine struggled with a bodily injury with issues of physical pain & personal loss. That part intrigued me that plus that she was a normal woman who wasn't a perfect model but still beautiful as she is. Throw in a sci-fi element of another world with great men of integrity, passion/love & commitment and you have a story worth much more than most main stream authors offer in this price range in e-books. That this story took place mostly on earth and yet I have such a vivid picture of Kell amazes me.  How the author can put so much into such these short stories is definitely a gift because I was fully satisfied by this book and quickly devoured it.  It was really about a 130 page read due to formatting issues (not from reader) but I didn't mind.  It had odd paragraph spacing that carried throughout that reduced the number of actual pages.  I've read so many e-books in this price range and can say few fulfilled my reading experience as this story did.  It was worth the money and I'm a happy customer. Do I want more of this story? YES! Would I pay for more details of this story and the home world of Kell? YES!  Her creativity would be worth it and I hope she reads this because her stories could be of epic proportions & worth higher dollars of other authors. That could put her books out of my price range, lol. I would pay for more because I wanted & needed much more of this story though I enjoyed it.  I couldn't give this 5 stars because of that though it was written very well.  I'd recommend this too those who like some romance in their sci-fi.I will have to read the rest of her stories because she did writes a full, well developed story, with few grammatical errors and wonderful h/h characters that stay with you.  Though I can't afford them all at once I can get one within my reading budget & put her on my favorites author list (not many make it there). It is rare indeed to find an author who can write romantic sci-fi in shorter pages that feels like a full novel.  I'd recommend!