Review: 4.5 stars
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 15, 2014
I really enjoyed this book.  It was such a sweet, heartwarming love story of best friends (with benefits!) turning into lovers.  I loved the characters in this book.  I was unsure about Lucy at the beginning, but she grew on me and I came to really like and respect her by the end.  I loved Kale from the start.  He was sexy, charming and funny with quite the sensitive side, but in no way did that lessen his alphaness .  My heart broke for him as he tried to work through and let go of the tragedy in his past.  However, Kale REALLY frustrated me towards the end of this book.  He continuously put off the inevitable despite the advice of his loved ones.  I was yelling at my kindle at one point, that’s how upset I was with him!  That’s what made this book a 4.5 and not a 5 star book for me.  Nevertheless, I still really enjoyed reading Inflame.I love a great and memorable first meeting between the hero and the heroine in my romances and Lucy and Kale’s was a very good one.  I could certainly see why Lucy fell for Kale pretty much from their first encounter.Inflame was sweet and very sexy, funny and just all around enjoyable.  I loved all the supporting  characters, from Lucy and Kale’s families, to all of their friends.  In fact one of the things I liked best about this book was the close friendships Kale and Lucy shared with Jace and Lexi, Knox and Charlie, and Xavier and his adorable daughter Lily.  I came to care about not only Lucy and Kale, but the rest of their friends as well.  So much so that I went back and purchased one of the previous books in the series because I want to know more about these other characters.The epilogue (part 1) in Inflame was perfect.  I’m so happy about how things worked out for Lucy and Kale.  I’m looking forward to catching up with the rest of this series.  I highly recommend Inflame to readers who enjoy a well-written friends to lovers story with lots of sexy times and great secondary characters.