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Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center

54 reviews

jla's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

Sexism, misogyny, and sexual assault warning. Parts of this were tough to read as a woman. 

I struggle to see how what Cassie's mom did wasn't cheating.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Fire/Fire injury

braytonaubree's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

This book is so special to me. It was my first Katherine Center book & I am not sure exactly what I was expecting going in, but it turned all my expectations upside down & surpassed them by MILES. The way that Katherine writes about relationships & how we as humans change as we go through experiences in life is inspiring- truly inspiring. While I’ve seen her books categorized as “feel-good” romances/women’s lit, I think that descriptor is a disservice to the heavy topics that are so artfully written about in this story. But, I do feel so much hope after watching a woman who is so tenacious & relatable learn to navigate forgiveness. I couldn’t put it down, not because I wanted to continue the romance (which is great, but I would categorize as a sub-sub-plot) but, because I was so invested in our FMC’s arc (she’s a firefighter btw & she’s so badass- I want to be her). The title is also just so perfect & every time I look at the cover or say the title it really invokes all the feelings/take-aways I had from this story. Katherine Center is quickly becoming an auto-buy author for me, but it’ll be hard to top this. 🔥🩵🚒

Content warnings:

• terminal illness

• sexual assault/rape

• suicide

• sexism/misogyny 

• substance abuse

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

saricostanzo's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Terminal illness, Medical content, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

chewy__stuff's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Body shaming, Death, Fatphobia, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

Minor: Addiction, Cursing, Drug abuse, Miscarriage, and Vomit

pandaorb's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

This is my first book from Katherine Center. I'd seen it floating around on social media, and when my friends were discussing Center at the library, I scooched on over to the shelf and picked up this one. This didn't really land for me, and I'm not sure if it's the writing style or the tropes in this book being an absolute jumble of things I hate, so I'll have to try a different one after this.
I never really grew to love Cassie, and I especially never found any sympathy for Diana. Good grief, what a selfish woman. I did really like Owen (although I had to stop myself from gagging at the fact that Cassie didn't bother to learn his name until halfway through the book), but their romance felt very shallow. It was basically insta-love because he's hot and she's strong. They had very little foundation or growth and it felt ridiculous.
But Things You Save In A Fire was a quick and moderately enjoyable comfort read when I needed something light, so it has earned its three stars. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism and Stalking

Moderate: Rape and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Cancer and Suicide attempt

gena10's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Sexual assault, and Fire/Fire injury

sarahangeline's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Sexism, and Terminal illness

ellacat11's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Misogyny, Sexism, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Minor: Child death, Grief, and Car accident

cedardleland's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.0

Given the subject matter of the book, I was surprised how graphically horrible all of the practical jokes are in this book that we're supposed to think are endearing. Like a coworker asking the MC out of the blue to screw when he knows she's panicking and therefore might be trickable, with all of her other coworkers including her boss watching ready to laugh at her for taking too long to refuse. That's how the book opens, and then the next thing is sexual assault, and I really feel like the author doesn't understand that the first thing is actually workplace sexual harassment being enabled by the power structure over the MC, but she things beating someone unconscious is appropriate as soon as touching is involved. But then there's all these "pranks" when she's working that are also assault, just not sexual assault and those are also supposed to be fun and fine. Very uncomfortably mixed messages for me around consent, which undermined the core message of the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

kimib79's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.75

I listened to the audiobook and the narrator sounded like either Holly Hunter or Jodie Foster. I found it unpleasant, but that's a me issue. I didn't care for the excessive cussing either. All in all, Hello Stranger was MUCH better.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cursing, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, and Abandonment

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Infertility, Miscarriage, and Suicide attempt