Review: “Stop questioning fate, sweetheart. Just let it happen.” - BURN
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 22, 2013
**JUST BOOKED received an ARC for an honest review**If you have not read Brooke Cumberland’s Spark the first novel in the series, be sure to read it so the characters stories will explain how the events occurred leading to the second novel, Burn, and there will no regrets. Spark is the story of Velaney Rose Willis and Carissa Wright, her best friend, are roommates in an apartment after graduating from college. Velaney and Carissa have been best friends since they were two years old, so Carissa knows the demons Velaney harbors from her childhood and provide the security in which Velaney’s parents never could provide. Due to the years of torment, Velaney struggles with dating and relationships finding her to damage for anyone to try to fix, until a fire engulfs her apartment and BFD firefighter, Eric Reilley, enters to find a beautiful Velaney asleep in her bed. Velaney feels as she is floating, then realize someone is carrying her then smoke in the air thickens and Velaney coughs realizing the fire was not the only spark in her apartment."To know you really love someone besides the physical stuff and beyond the emotional stuff-is how you can be completely comfortable around that person, you can be yourself-and they love you for exactly that. Nothing more. Nothing less.”- VelaneyBurn begins immediately were Spark left us and in Burn we learn more of Eric’s demons from his past. Eric finds himself speaking to Velaney about his past, since the incidents occurred. Eric also wants to Velaney to know that he will always be with her, even though she may push him away."You could put me through a roller coaster of emotional hardship, and still be at the gate waiting for you. I love you, Velaney. No matter what you do…how you handle situations…or how much you push me away…I will always be yours. I’ll always be waiting for you. I’m no one else. I was never meant to be anyone else’s, but yours. Do you understand?” - EricVelaney on the other hand, is still experiencing many mix emotions because she is discovering new family secrets, loss, trust, how to communicate in a relationship, guilt, and even doubting her faith."And I don’t know how strong I am. Or how strong I can be for you. ...it actually pains me. The love I feel for you is so damn real, so damn strong - it burns.” - EricWill the spark that started between Velaney and Eric continue burn or will the discoveries of their pasts blow out the flame?“Perhaps all relationships don’t have to crash and burn…” - VelaneyBurn is a SPARKLING HOT LOVE STORY that will capture your attention immediately and will be unable to put the book down. While reading, you will find yourself on an INTENSE emotional roller coaster experiencing many emotions, just as the first novel, Spark. While reading, you will find yourself on A HEART WRENCHING EMOTIONAL ROLLER COASTER with twists and turns experiencing many emotions as the characters did in the novel, like CRYING, LAUGHING, SADNESS, JOY, RAGE, FRIGHT, and LOVE. Brooke also plans to write Clarissa’s story in the third novel in the Spark series, Flame.I rate Brooke Cumberland’s novel, Burn - 5 HUNKY STARS!