"sparks are definitely flying"
Reviewed by Sandra Wurman
Posted August 18, 2013
Romance
Running away is never the right choice, but what if staying
means facing down fears everyday for the rest of your life.
Pretty awesome thought and enough of a scary option that
flight might seem to be the only option for keeping your
sanity. Life is hard. A life filled with panic attacks
leaves you filled with dread worrying over when the next
one would come; what would bring this debilitating attack
on. So the best course of action would be to remove
yourself from all possible triggers. If that means leaving
your family home well that's what you would do.
Jill Shalvis teaches a valuable lesson in Seeing Red. It's
much better to face down your fears as a means to gain back
self-confidence and courage that was only temporarily lost.
In the end what you gain will be worth the agony of staring
down your deepest fears and nightmares.
Love is always the answer and Shalvis fills her books with
people who are caring and devoted to others. She
understands the value of a really good hug. You might say
that reading a Shalvis book is like getting a bear hug.
What you get is a good feeling, meeting some wonderful
characters while figuring out just what this writer has
hidden up her sleeves for us all.
Joe has had it bad for Summer since they were teens. They
were best friends but for Joe it was so much more. Summer
or Red as he called her was his safety net from an abusive
father. She was his escape hatch when his world was
becoming violently dangerous. Red came from a very close
loving family. She couldn't begin to understand what went
on behind the closed doors of Joe's home life. But she knew
his pain. Joe used food as his escape and so he had yet
another battle to win as he grew up. The one person who
seemed to see beyond his girth was his Red. Perhaps this
was still another reason for his undying love and devotion
to this girl.
No one would have ever anticipated the abrupt departure,
when Red seemed to vanish from her home and family. And to
Joe it was as if a huge part of him was missing, the one
person who held his heart in her hand was now absent from
his life. Red was running. Not from Joe but from the fright
of losing her father in a tragic fire and her inability to
save him. Some would say she was lucky that her memory of
that event was vague. Perhaps it's best that our minds can
put these events is a place deeply hidden. But Reds panic
attacks were real, there was something fighting to come to
the front, some memory of the fire and now returning home
to help her mother recover from still another incident is
something Red is not totally prepared for.
Truthfully she is also ill prepared to see Joe again. But
this Joe is nothing like the boy she left behind so many
years ago. Joe is now an arson investigator. The fires that
are targeting Red's family business are beginning to look
less like coincidence and accidental.
The investigation of a possible arsonist draws us deep into
a mystery that spanned many years. Shalvis keeps us on our
toes as the list of suspects seems longer than anyone could
have imagined, and the pool of suspects includes some
unexpected choices. The suspense will keep you on the edge
of your seats till the very end.
SUMMARY
IT ONLY TAKES A SPARK
Summer Abrams left everything behind-the warehouse fire that
took her father's life, the town where her world fell apart,
and her best friend in the world, Joe Walker. All she
carried with her was guilt. Now, twelve years later, another
fire has devastated the same warehouse, and Summer returns
to Ocean Beach to search for answers. But what she finds
first is an old flame that never went out . . . Joe Walker has become the town fire marshal-sexy, strong,
and an expert at keeping people at bay. The only person he
ever let into his heart broke it and left town without a
word. Now that she's back, Joe swears he won't fall for
Summer again . . . but the heat between them is
irresistible. As he tries to help her heal the past, can he
take a risk on building a future with Summer?
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