Review: This was a book buffet! It combined every type of book I’ve ever loved
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 8, 2014
Ignite and Burn caused me to become a complete adrenaline junky. I was on an ultimate book high from the time I started Ignite until that last punctuation mark in Burn. To say I was obsessed with RJ Lewis’ books would be exact. My mind was continuously occupied with thoughts of the characters… How would their fates be laid out and what would become of them? These books were intrusive and I loved every damn second of it.Ignite is the first book of the two-part series and here we are introduced to our heroine, Sara Nolan and our hero, Jaxon Barlow. Both living in the projects, they find each other in the early stages of their lives. Brought together by the sheer ugliness of bullying, Jaxon became Sara’s protector. I felt absolute sympathy for Sara- living in an abusive home, she was abandoned far too young. In this lifetime, we could wish upon the brightest of stars for the right people to come into our lives in the right time, for those people to save us, to help us crawl out of the darkest & deepest cave imaginable. Lucinda and Jaxon Barlow became exactly that for Sara. From the moment that Jaxon reversed the tables on the God awful red headed bully, I immediately fell for him. In Ignite, we find ourselves taking the erratic journey alongside Jax and Sara. There are many tender moments filled with an unhurried parade of their love for each other which will leave you breathless and heart shattering complications which will leave your chin quivering. There are numerous occasions where you will want to throw your ebook of choice against the wall. Sara will piss you off and have you pulling at your hair but I beg of you to stick by her. The darkness that follows her and encompasses her is beyond her control- I kept repeating this mantra over and over and over, pages after pages of infuriating decisions. Her actions ultimately lead us to an even more volatile story line in the second book, Burn.In Burn, we get a taste of a bunch of wayward characters- Remy Martinez being the most lethal of them all. As if my life wasn’t tumultuous enough while reading this series, here comes this beautifully jarring man, the one who would have me taking deep breaths because I felt so much for him. I praised his determination and his big heart. He reminded me so much of Jaxon and that drove me even more confused. So yes, RJ Lewis gives us a love triangle of sorts… I. ATE. IT. UP. I loved that the author gave us a deeper type of it. This triangle unlike many out there expresses different levels of love; each represented a different meaning to one another. Varying in lust, love, and need. I was left unknowing who to root for and made me feel guilt over it. The author explores every side of each of her characters and we see the extent one will go for love. Because in the end of it all, it will become their only salvation.There are so many plot twists in this series which I LOVED! Everything was so unpredictably intense that I was constantly on edge. I cannot remember any other series that I could not predict, it blew my mind.  What also threw me off balance was the fact that the driver of my book obsession was not one character- the usual kick ass heroine. The way RJ Lewis told this messy, volatile love story was brilliant. This was a book buffet! It combined every type of book I’ve ever loved. It had alpha males, squirm inducing sex scenes, tons of swoon worthy dialogue, ingenious plot twists, and lacked inundated fillers.  I am suffering from a terrible case of BIG book hangover and I am utterly grateful for it.