Review: An Okay Read
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 26, 2013
I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.All Fired Up by Nikki Dee Houston Is an okay quick read. There is great potential but unfortunately the characters’ actions don’t always make sense and the author tried to pack too much into a quick novella.One of my biggest gripes about the book is the action by the heroine herself. Cindy has struggled to be successful in the highly dominated field of firefighting. She is determined to prove her worthiness to her new co-workers at the Hillside Fire Station. So what does she do on the second day, she has hot steamy sex with her captain.  I’m sorry, but it wasn’t realistic for me. I can only imagine how difficult it must be for a female firefighter and a sexual relationship with your boss would just undermine everything you have worked for.Their relationship continues even with the second in command’s knowledge. In fact he encourages it. Again, this doesn’t seem plausible which pulled me from the story. And while I could believe instant lust and sexual attraction between Cindy and Dave, their love developed awfully fast, even by romance novel standards.Except for her poor decision to sleep with her boss, I liked the character of Cindy. She was a take charge, confident woman who could hold her own in a man’s world without losing her femininity.  Dave is a hot and sexy firefighter who knows how to make a woman feel good. The sex scenes are steamy and create their own type of fire.Ms. Houston also threw in a bit of drama in the form of a stalker. This storyline was more believable than the romance story, however, because All Fired Up is a novella, it was too quickly resolved. The writing flowed nicely and smoothly which made the book easy to read. Unfortunately, the story needed more than a novella to elevate it.