Review: I wish this had been longer
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 2, 2014
Fanning the Flames is a short story and a .5 book in the Jackson Girl’s Night Out series. Because it’s such a short story at only 61 pages things heat up quickly between our two main characters, Lauren a 43 year old divorced librarian and Jake a 46 year old widowed Fire Captain. And I was quite alright with that, when a book is short on pages we need to get to the good stuff as quickly as possibly.Fanning the Flames had me laughing out loud and trying to stifle myself so I wouldn’t wake up Matt. If this is the kind of funny Dahl always writes, then I really must bump her other books up on my to be read list.There were quite a few things about this book that normally I wouldn’t have enjoyed. Things like, the third person narration when I enjoy first person or the older ages of our couple, but somehow Dahl pulled it off and I wasn’t bothered by either. In fact I found myself enjoying the third person narration she used. Apparently I am ok with third person but only when it is done well.Lauren was hilarious in how she  not only approached things, but how she was constantly in these crazy situations. I want to be like that in my 40′s. I’m currently enjoying my dirty thirties, so I’ll have to come up with something cool sounding for the 40s. I’m not quite sure why, but I felt a connection with Lauren.  Jake was hot and I don’t just mean his abs. He didn’t get to do a lot of swoon worthy activities, but those he did were so cute.Fanning the Flames was just a short, cute, low angst, fluffy read, but I enjoyed it. It would have had more stars, but because of the length we didn’t get to know the main characters or a deeper story line.