Burning Desire
By Marie Harte
Release Date: August 24, 2021
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2 Stars - This super slow burn romance series is perfect for fans of Kate Meader and Jaci Burton. Harte has a great touch with dialouge and quirky couples. But this story lacked drama. So if you're looking for romantic comedy with just a little punch and some boss's daughter vibes for a long weekend, this might be for you more than me.
First off, this is a long romance at almost 350 pages. There's not nearly enough plot to fill that so it's a lot of bantery dialouge. It's good banter but I need more. Harte's first book in the trilogy lacked sparks for me too so I went into this with low expectations. Nothing about these stories are setting me up in flames though, in good or bad ways. Here we have plucky photographer Bree, daughter of one of the fire department higher ups. Tex is a former marine and dedicated firefighter who has the hots for her. These two have all the fun push-pull dynamics of a thrown together couple. But somehow, neither of them really clicked with me, and I wasn't feeling the sparks between the two of them early on.
Bree is on an interesting career path that has her colliding with Tex, whom she has tried to avoid. Tex is very much a serial dater and this is no secret to anyone. Honestly, I'd rather read about a player or a hermit than a serial dater. Between that and his instance he got to know Bree and they bonded on a dating app, it just went beyond me. I guess I'm too much of an old soul that way. These two are sweet and considerate all the while they are dancing their little dance away and around each other. Once they finally get together, Harte has no issues with turning up the steam levels. She made a few mistakes though I think, small and large. Small was making references about Bree liking Guinevere when she is a character from King Arthur tales not Robin Hood as told. Other small errors appear. And bigger ones like chosing to start off the first ten percent of the story with flashbacks. This isn't up to her McCauley brothers series standards but it's a pleasant enough read to pass the time.
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