Review: Mature, competent characters...a second chance at first love.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 3, 2014
I liked REBURN....and when the title was explained in firefighter's terms (from Sam to Olivia), it made such PERFECT sense!  An ideal title!  The read was truly enjoyable.  The pacing of this short story was extraordinarily good; I could believe that Sam and Olivia who had a summertime college-age romance ten years earlier would reconnect with such emotion, compelling fire, and reach a point where they had to make a decision.  After all, ten years is a lot of time to draw comparisons (what life was really like without the other, what relationships with anyone else was like), and to know what they really want.  I could identify with the rekindled love for each other, the kind of love that comes perhaps once in a lifetime and a decade apart can't smother.Sam and Olivia were each incredibly well-drawn characters.  Strong.  Fighty.  Heroes.  Facing the villain together showed what a compelling match they made.  I do adore second-chance romances, and this one did not disappoint.