Title: Firework (True North #6)
Author: Sarina Bowen
Genre/Themes: Contemporary romance
Release Date: 13 Nov 2018
My rating: 4 Stars
Blurb
Skye Copeland is on paid leave from her broadcasting job after accidentally drawing a pecker on the traffic map.
Let that sink in. Like it’s her fault the traffic pattern created a perfect schlong?
Skye isn’t laughing. She needs this job. And that’s the only reason she’s willing to chase down a story in her least favorite place—that hell on earth known as Vermont.
A quick trip. In and out. Much like - never mind. She can sneak into the town that once tried to break her, get the story and slide back into the good graces of her producer. Easy peasy.
But things go sideways the moment she steps over the county line. Her stepsister is running from a violent drug dealer. And the cop on the case is none other than Benito Rossi, the man who broke Skye’s teenage heart.
His dark brown eyes still tear her apart. And even as she steels herself to finally tell him off after twelve years, the old fireworks are still there.
Things are about to go boom.
Review
This is the next installment in the True North series and it's a small
town romance mixed with second chance at love with heroine returning to her hometown.
Benito and Skye's story has an easy, natural flow, though I was not a fan of the
childhood/young adulthood flashbacks. The felt the narration style
and the omniscient 3rd
person POV clashed with the rest of the story. I liked the perspective their added to the present-day relations between the MCs (the supporting cast) but not the way it was presented.
Benito is close to perfect as any romance hero can
be in my eyes – caring, loving, fighting the good fight (a police
officer going after drug dealers), loyal to his friends and family.
The heroine was more complex, there a bigger internal
conflict with Skye – having to do with her past, her job, her future as a whole. I’m
conflicted about her view of her own sexuality but I would say is
demisexual, just doesn’t know the word for it. Either way, he is
patient and supportive and I love him for standing by her but also
giving her time/space to figure things out.
Overall it's a light-hearted, easy read despite touching on some
heavy subjects as poverty, abuse, broken families, drugs
Loved catching up on the Rossis and the Shipleys,
loved the small town sense of community and support. It could be just
wishful thinking of everyone running a successful business in a small
town without a single financial care in the world, but it’s a
wishful thinking that makes feel good and happy and that’s why I
read romance. Sometimes I am all about the darkness and drama, other
times good people getting good things works perfectly for me.
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