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Consumed (Firefighters, #1)

J.R. Ward

Start date: October 11, 2018

Finish date: October 16, 2018

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Jan 06, 2019 Kirsten rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: reading-with-catherine

I did really like this book and the ending did surprise me. However, if you've read Ward's other series - the Black Dagger Brotherhood, the setup will not surprise you.

1) We have a brotherhood firefighters/SWAT team members. They're all big, tattooed, tough, and complete with baggage. Apparently, the BDB vampires aren't really that big if these humans are a guide.

2) We have a baddie. Not the nebulous Omega, but a Teflon businessman.

Still, very enjoyable and I will definitely go on. ...more

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Sep 11, 2019 Diane (Books and Tequila Blog) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 5-stars, amazing-heroine, emotional, listened-to, library, hardcover, action-suspense, goodreads, angsty

Consumed is a super intense story. Much more focused on the characters and the action than the romance aspect. Although the story is a standalone there is a great mystery that is partially solved by the end of the book but still leaves us with a few questions and lots to look forward to later in the series.

“Every one of them who got into turnouts, and took their bodies and their minds into open flames for little money and lots of risk, for strangers, for animals they didn’t own, for houses they ...more

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