Review: Panties on Fire Hot
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 1, 2013
I had received an ARC of this book a few months ago, and it sat on my TBR pile because I was slammed with other things. Today, I decided it had been too long and began reading. I finished the entire book in a few short hours, and those hours were pure bliss.Grace's characterization was so heart-wrenching that I actually felt a pang of sadness as I learned her story. What the author did remarkably well was to create in Grace a feeling of what I can only term as "the outsider in high school." That was the girl would other people picked on, used, abused verbally and/or physically. Grace should never have suffered what happened to her when she was a teen, but the author used that as a catalyst for such an endearing character that I was unable to stop reading until I learned how she fared.Jayden. Oh my Heaven, Jayden. I love angel stories, and this one will be a favorite of mine for a long, long, long time. In Jayden we get a true warrior, bent on his mission, yet the allure of him failing that mission rings through from the moment he meets Grace. I latched on to his turmoil, and in the truest sense of "tortured hero," came to simply adore every moment Jayden was on the page.My gosh, the sexual tension throughout the novel is on every, single scene. I gobbled up the interactions between Jayden and Grace, but the other characters who appeared (and who starred in their own novels previously) was the perfect touch and counterbalance. Jayden's mission and his personal feelings for humans rang true. I believed the struggle he faced was monumental, yet I couldn't stop and even take a break one chapter to the next. The author brilliantly made it impossible to leave the story, even for a second. The pacing is spot on; just the right tempo to make the reader feel time disappear. The story had no sink holes, no skim-worthy passages. Hell, I re-read some HOT AS HELL scenes because they were that good.What has always drawn me to angel/human pairings was the curiosity of how such a powerful, pure being could even contemplate leaving his existence in Heaven to be with someone he loved. That's sacrifice. That's love. It's so ridiculously romantic a notion that I revel in finding novels with the theme that outdo my expectations.Of Consuming Fire is so perfect an angel/human love story as I have read in a while. There's no fan fare about this author -- yet. But if this is an example of her talent, and all her previous novels show it, then I have zero doubt we are all going to be treated to amazing and tantalizing stories in the future.