Harriet's Reviews > Breathing Fire

4.5* - Intriguing setup

So much is unknown and as each part of the puzzled unravelled you get more tied into the story. The tempestuous relationship between Dom and Jillian is so gripping, can't wait for the next one.

My only qualm about the books is that it's a "series". There are books that are a series, and each book is a complete story. Take Harry Potter, take Eragon by Christopher Paolini. There's more than one book, but each book can be read stand-alone, of course it's much better when you have the previous background, and you know all the characters in the previous books, but the plot is a complete one. Then, in the age of e-books, publishing isn't taken as seriously, anybody can 'publish' their books, and whole stories are chopped up and sold separately to make more buck. This is a novel-length book, but it's not a complete story. It leaves as many questions as it answers. Even though we do get most of the gist through Breathing Fire, it's still not completel, it only leaves us enough setup, and not enough plot for a complete book.

Having said (ranted) all that, Rebecca Lilley does a wonderful job with characters, with her previous books, and with this one. I'm engrossed in everything between Dom and Jillian, and intrigued about Sloan and Cam (however little that came through in the last book, hope this there is a separate novella for them). It gives promise of a good book. I almost wished I hadn't read this one until the second one came out. But when I first read it I thought it was a standalone novel. Even with all that, I've re-read it 3 times, and each time I get more impatient for the second one.