Review: A Deeply Emotional and Touching Journey of Love and Endurance
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 5, 2014
This book will definitely require a box of tissues!!I have always been drawn towards stories written about firefighters which is how I came to read A Firefighter’s Flame.  I tend to gravitate towards romantic tales of meeting and falling in love but after reading the synopsis, I felt a bit unsure of where this story was going to lead me.  Well this book caught me completely by surprise and was nothing like I have ever read before.  After having finished it, I sat contemplating how I was going to get through this review to express the intensity of emotion it made me feel without spoiling it for others who have yet to read it.A Firefighter’s Flame is told through the eyes of Lennox, the wife of a firefighter and mother of two.  Lennox has always struggled with depression dealing with episodes where everything in her life is overwhelming her all at once and flipping to the opposite side where she completely shuts down.  Lennox met Dean in high school with both immediately feeling a connection of the heart.  After many years of relationship ups and downs, they marry and begin to move into a life of routine of buying a home and having children.  Dean is away from home working long hours as a firefighter and Lennox is left to raise their children alone.  Continuing to struggle with her depression, she begins to question her existence and the life she is leading.  But when tragedy strikes, Lennox is forced to fight to overcome those issues from which she has suffered all of her life in search of the happily-ever-after she has always hoped for but never certain she would find.I must admit throughout the first few chapters of this story, I struggled a bit to keep going.  But as I read on, Ms. Hart brought me deeper into the mind of Lennox ultimately pulling me into her life giving insight into someone dealing with depression who makes the decision to continue on the life path she had chosen.  She learns to continue to fight to overcome the tragedy and heartbreak that has befallen her.  The author’s writing style here is interesting and creative as she takes us on a journey from the present back through the past as Lennox struggles to deal with her emotional state and current situations which pull her back to prior experiences which have made her the woman she has developed into today.Dani Hart has written a story which was so overwhelmingly emotional for me to a point where I couldn’t even talk about it without breaking down into tears.  At the conclusion of this book, I was glad that I continued to read it as had I not endured, I would have missed out on this beautiful and heart wrenching tale of a woman who possesses such an inner strength which allowed her mind to overcome what she felt she never could.  As the adage goes, that which does not kill us makes us stronger, and A Firefighter’s Flame is an example of that kind of strength.Thank you Ms. Hart for giving us this beautiful story.  You’ve deeply touched my heart.