The Slash Pile

Title: Firestorm (#2 First Responders Novel)
Author: Radclyffe
Format: Novel
Length: 273 pages
Rating: mature
Warnings: none
Link: http://www.amazon.de/Firestorm-First-Responders-Novel-Radclyffe/dp/1602822328/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1346238174&sr=1-1

Summary: Mallory „Ice“ James is a paramedic Firefighter. She and her crew are smokejumpers that parachute into forests to fight fire. Each year at the begin of the season bootcamp is taking place to train rookies. This time it’s Mallorys job to choose and to train the new guys. Therefore she carefully chooses each rookie, because she has to trust them with her life in case of emergency. But there is a last-minute-assignment that Mallory could not influence.
Jac Russo, always seen as daughter of right-wing Senator Russo of Idaho, has to convince Mallory that she isn’t just at Bootcamp because of political connections but that she can handle to be a smokejumper.


Review:
It’s my first Radclyffe novel I ever read and I chose this one out of all her other novels because one reviewer said ‘they don’t have sex at first sight’, a fact that seems to be unusual for Radclyffe (I don’t know that for sure). But I liked it that they found each other attractive at first sight and that their sexual tension grew bigger during the story and that they didn’t had to have sex immediately.
The story starts with the beginning of bootcamp and unfortunately ends with the end of it. I was really disappointed, though not surprised because of reviews I read, that they never fought fire, but had a rescue mission on a glacier. I mean I bought a novel called Firestorm to read something about people fighting fire and not Snowstorms.
Apart from that it was a good read. I liked most of the characters, I liked the storyline and the sex was hot and not too dominant.
Unfortunately there is this one line of action at the end that remains unsettled. Considering the fact that it’s a series there might be a chance to see those characters again in later novels but I wouldn’t bet on it.