A review by lymadebell
Fire Me Up by Katie MacAlister

adventurous lighthearted mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

This is the second book I've read of this series in very short periods of time. I like Aisling as a character, but she is deeply flawed. To the point of calling her kletsy and falling into a world of otherworldly creatures - dragons, guardians, demons which which leads to her getting in all sorts of trouble. This is the formula for which these books are clearly written. But that doesn't make them bad. Doesn't make them boring. She gets into trouble and then has to find a way out of it. Usually we have murders. Usually we have some sort of committee telling her that she's not doing her job. My biggest problem with this book was actually that she got called for her past mistakes without really having any way to defend herself against them and I found that that was really off base for this book. Specifically. There's a lot of spice in this book. If you like spice this one is the one for you. I would say it's three out of five spices versus the probably two spices in the last book. But we are on the same formula. We've got Renee who's come back. She's found a really annoying virgin partner and of course we have Jim the demon to all help her through this trouble that she's got herself into. I understand that she's got to have a job that takes her to these places but it seems completely inane to have it at all. But either way, light read, beach read, chic-lit, this is all what you're looking for. We've got murders. We've got dragons. We've got spice. We've got Aisling.