Review: 4.5 stars -- great read!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 28, 2014
After the brief hints about Knox from Ignite as Jace’s best friend, I was excited to dig into Incinerate and get to know him better.Knox hasn’t let anyone except Jace in during the 11 years he has been in the Army. Family or girlfriends? He doesn’t talk about the former, and doesn’t keep the latter. When he is healing from injuries received on deployment, he finds walls coming down all around him as his caretaker, Charlie, challenges all his personal demons.Charlie is a liaison between the VA and the local college, while volunteering to help wounded soldiers get back on their feet. When she takes Knox on, she has no idea what she is in store for, other than that the man is grumpy, moody, and hot as hell. She is such a strong character on her her, I couldn’t help but love her. She is independent and driven even when faced with surprise and life changes.I loved this. Knox had a lot to figure out. His fumbling through learning how to be a boyfriend after 11 years of celebrating bachelorhood, avoiding relationships and connections of any kind caused or contributed to most of the conflict in the story. But as Jace's words from Ignite predicted, he would eat his words by the time it was done.It was so funny to watch these two butt heads initially. Knox's pride and Charlie's stubbornness is an explosive combination. With as strong as each character is separately, you know when they get together it's going to be a crazy ride. As the story progressed, the changes in the characters, particularly Knox, were great to watch.My only complaint? Based on how many times Knox is described as going shirtless, I would think the cover model should have been shirtless too! So if that’s all I had to pick at, this definitely was an excellent read. I was actually so engrossed in the story that I didn’t even take time to jot down notes or highlight passages. I may has well been living in Clarksville Knox and Charlie.Thanks to Tessa Teevan for providing me with an arc in exchange for an honest review.