Fanning The Flames

by Victoria Dahl

[Leah]

Over the past year I’ve come to very much enjoy Victoria Dahl’s novels. They’re more romance-y than I usually read and a lot steamier, but I enjoy her brand of romance and I adore her love stories. Her writing flows so naturally and I love her Jackson series. So I was very excited to download her new novella Fanning The Flames from Netgalley, which is a nice little filler novella before her next release, Looking For Trouble (which I’ll be reading REALLY soon).

Fanning The Flames is a very quick, thirty-minute read telling the hot, hot, hot story of Lauren and Jake. Lauren works at the library, and Jake works at the firehouse right next door and after years of marriage on Lauren’s end (and an 8 year single period) and widowhood on Jake’s end, they’re both feeling ready to start again… But it’s kinda awkward since Jake knew Lauren’s husband and Lauren knew just how sweet Jake’s dearly departed wife, Ruth, was…. But their chemistry is hot, and they can barely deny their attraction to each other, but will it be more than just chemistry that keeps them together?

I thoroughly enjoyed Fanning The Flames, it was quick, it was cute, and the chemistry between Lauren and Jake was sky-high, something Dahl more than excells at with her novels. It leads very nicely into Lauren’s best friend Sophie’s story in Looking For Trouble, and I’m hoping (FINGERS CROSSED) we’ll see more of Lauren and Jake in Looking For Trouble, even just a little mention of them would be awesome! I just loved this little novella and I imagined Jake as an older Taylor Kinney just because Kinney plays a firefighter in Chicago Fire and Jake, too, is a firefighter. (I’m terrible, aren’t I?) Dahl fans will devour this, it was fabulous!