A review by jackiehorne
Firelight by Kristen Callihan

3.0

A first-time book by a writer with a lot of potential -- interesting premise, great sexual tension, a dead-on opening scene. But her debut also has A LOT of weaknesses: overall pacing; problems with bringing scenes to a satisfying sense of closure; world-building (just why is Miranda able spout fire at will?? Does anyone else in her world do something similar?? Can you say plot contrivance??); and gaps of logic in character motivation (why would Miranda get angry that Archer lied to her, immediately after they've finally come together emotionally and sexually? And in a way that should have made her realize his lie -- any reader paying even partial attention had guessed the truth far earlier...) And could she please use some other way to link clauses than the dull and almost meaningless "and"?

I'll definitely pick up her next book, in the hopes she and her editor continue to push her to improve, rather than rush her to pop out one flawed book after another.