Review: Beautiful, Heartbreaking Story of Love and Loss
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 27, 2014
A Firefighter's Flame has to be one of the most heartbreaking, beautiful books I have read this year! The story opens with Lennox, a firefighter's wife, questioning one of the most important choices in her life...her marriage. She is married to her high school sweetheart, Dean, who is a firefighter. The life as a wife of a firefighter is hard and lonely. Days and nights go by without Lennox and her two children seeing Dean. When she goes away for a weekend for her friend's bachelorette party, she meets up with an old flame that she still harbors strong feelings for. Will she give into temptation and throw her life away with a man who adores her and tear her children's lives apart, or will she stay strong and committed to making her marriage work? Will she choose the man who owns her heart or the one who owns her soul? It turns out Lennox doesn't have to make a decision, a cruel twist of fate makes the decision for her, life as she knows it will never be the same again.This is not your typical contemporary romance; it's so much more. As you will see, Lennox struggles with bipolar disorder. While there is romance, and you are given a given a history of Lennox and Dean and Lennox and Braedyn and all the emotions involved, you also see her struggles with her bipolar disorder. This is as much a love story is it is about a woman who is hanging on by a thread at times. Dani Hart is brutally honest and descriptive in Lennox's struggle with depression and the days she struggles to even get out of bed. She does a great job of giving insight into a disorder that affects so many people and their loved ones.OMG...the twist that occurs in this story is gut wrenching. Without spoiling for you, I will warn you that you will need a box of tissue. I cried my eyes out. But, I loved it! As I have written in other reviews, a writer who can make a reader feel those emotions is doing their job. This was a bittersweet story of love, loss, healing, and the importance of family. PLEASE DON'T LET THE FACT THAT THIS IS A TEARJERKER OF A BOOK DISCOURAGE YOU FROM READING IT!!! You will be missing out on a phenomenal read that changes the way you look at your life and the people whom you hold dear.