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Burning Up by Susan Andersen
Macey O'James, big MTV star is helping her family working at the boarding house.
Gabriel Donovon, the fire chief is a man from her high school days and they heat up the town.
He eats his meals at the boarding house while his house is being built.
For a charity event they talk her into giving some time to the community at the fair event.
It's to raise money so the fire dept can be funded. She runs into others that were in the same high school and they have conflicts.
Like hearing things Gabe finds after fires are out and how he solves how they started..
He can't get her kiss out of his system and anytime he's close to her he prays for a call to put a fire out.
She goes to scout out a new location for the taping of the video, problem is somebody is behind her locking her in the upstairs bedroom, then she smells smoke and sees fire!
The fire dept. has a serious problem with arsonists and Gabe is hot on the trail of them...
The record gets set straight at the reunion as to the real truth of what happened when she was 17...
Love the bonus of the recipes at the end..with the storyline and hot steamy sex, this is a super read!


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Burning Up Hqn Susan Andersen 9780373774982 Books Reviews

~* 4.5 Stars *~
Macy O'James has made a name for herself starring in music videos in L.A. Now she's returning to the small town of Sugarville, a place where the name she made was far less flattering back when she was in high school. Tormented by the "in" crowd, her reputation was shattered when her high school crush turned out to be a lying bag of bollocks and told everyone she was easy after she put a halt to his advances. As if being labeled the school slut wasn't bad enough, an accident that ended the football dreams of three top players on their team took her from school slut to town pariah. Macy's gotten very good at protecting herself from slings and arrows, but when her cousin is struck in a hit-and-run and Macy races home to help take care of her, she isn't certain that her ability to keep the nasty at arms length will be able to stand up to an extended trip to the only home she's ever really known, even ten years after she had originally left.

Relatively new in town, Sugarville fire chief Gabriel Donovan had heard the rumors about Macy O'James. The mix of L.A. celebrity and small town least-liked didn't leave him with much of an impression - until she blew into town and set every one of his personal fires to burning at incendiary levels. The beauty was definitely weird, with her costumes and insouciance, and flagrantly flirty with everything male on top of that, and for some reason, the combination riled him like nothing else. Suddenly he was mouthing off at her over the least provocation - and that woman does provocation like nobody's business - and his vaunted control was left in tatters. It didn't take long, though, for him to see that there was more to Macy than public opinion, and behind those costumes and that carefree front lay the heart of a woman who loved fiercely and took a bone-deep joy in life.

And that was when those fires Macy O'James set to burning inside him went supernova.

Susan Andersen's light contemporary romance thoroughly entertained me on a lot of levels. I loved the characters and their back-and-forth banter was some of the best I've read lately. The chemistry between Macy and Gabe was positively stunning and it exploded off the pages. I'll admit, I have a preference for the adversaries-to-lovers theme in romance, so I was predisposed to much of my enjoyment and satisfaction with the book, but beyond that, Andersen created two perfectly suited characters and slammed them against one another in delightfully heated ways.

And it was more than their dialogue I enjoyed. I was pleasantly surprised by the depth of character they each had. Macy in particular struck me as a solid, fully realized, and sympathetic character. Her outrageous actions and devil-may-care attitude were fun to witness, and while in the story they hid her softer vulnerability and the evidence of years of hurt from her world, that side of her character was nicely revealed to readers. There was also an inherent honesty to her nature and a willingness to admit fault that was appealing. She truly did shine when town pressures didn't slow her down, and when they did, her reactions were believable and realistic and, I thought, very well written.

The plot zipped along quickly with a fast-flowing and smooth narrative, and beyond Macy's town issues and the romance with Gabe, Andersen included an ancillary plot thread about a town arsonist that added necessary dimension to Gabe's character and balanced out the overall plot of the book nicely. Macy's issues with her old rivals were well done. It worked for me, though some could complain that after ten years, some of the people's reactions to Macy were implausible, but because of the small town setting I found it very believable. The longest memories and the most closely held grudges can always be found in small towns.

As for the romance and sexual aspects of the book? Well...let's just say I'm still fanning myself and leave it at that.

This was a fast, light read that had a bit more genuine meat to it than I was expecting. There were a couple of scenes that I thought were a bit implausible, like the public attack at the reunion that ended in a bit of a Kumbaya moment, and the tertiary romance between Grace and Jack that was woven into the storyline was more of a distraction than an enjoyment because of the very ancillary nature of Grace as a character, but I was completely entertained by this sizzling, fun book. A special kudos for the plot twist at the end. I didn't see that one coming at all - and I usually do.

I don't know that I've read anything by Susan Andersen before this, and if I have, it's been several years. I think Burning Up may just have corrected that grievous oversight for me. I love it when that happens.

Reviewed for One Good Book Deserves Another.
I would probably give this one 2.5 stars. I really wanted to like it more than I did. The writing was good, and I liked all the characters, but I really felt like the story was not realistic. Macy held on to high school for way too long, and the "mystery/suspense" part of the story seemed forced, and didn't add anything to the story. It was a fairly quick and easy read, and I didn't have to force myself to finish it, but it's probably not one that I'd read again.
Macy O'James left her small hometown of Sugarville, Washington after she graduated High School ten years ago. She's made a few "hot" music videos in L. A. that have earned her a little recognition, but the memory of how she was treated back in High School still stings. When she returns to Sugarville one of the first people she meets is the smokin' hot new Fire Chief, Gabriel Donovan. Can Macy put her past behind her long enough to see if there's a future for her with Gabe in a town that holds some bad memories?

I'm just going to come out and say it Who gives a rat's arse about what happened back in High School? Honestly, in the decade after graduation the majority of people are busy with little things like college, jobs, marriage, divorce and even kids. But the whole premise of this story hinges on the town's obsession with Macy's High School reputation as a "bad girl". Eh, I just didn't buy it; it seemed silly to me.

Putting aside the shaky premise, there is some good chemistry between Gabe and Macy and despite being predictable I did enjoy watching their relationship develop. A little conflict would have gone a long way toward making the couple more interesting. As it is, they're just two perfectly gorgeous people who fall for each other, dance around it a little bit then hit the sheets.

I liked the secondary love story between Macy's rock star best friend and Gabe's school teacher ex-girlfriend - it was cute. The author knows how to move the story along and the dialog is snappy and fun to read. It may not have been the most original contemporary romance I've read, but I will say that it is well-written.

Bottom Line Pleasant if predictable romance between your average Barbie and Ken couple.

Occasional strong language and moderate sexual content - in the PG+ range.
Burning Up by Susan Andersen
Macey O'James, big MTV star is helping her family working at the boarding house.
Gabriel Donovon, the fire chief is a man from her high school days and they heat up the town.
He eats his meals at the boarding house while his house is being built.
For a charity event they talk her into giving some time to the community at the fair event.
It's to raise money so the fire dept can be funded. She runs into others that were in the same high school and they have conflicts.
Like hearing things Gabe finds after fires are out and how he solves how they started..
He can't get her kiss out of his system and anytime he's close to her he prays for a call to put a fire out.
She goes to scout out a new location for the taping of the video, problem is somebody is behind her locking her in the upstairs bedroom, then she smells smoke and sees fire!
The fire dept. has a serious problem with arsonists and Gabe is hot on the trail of them...
The record gets set straight at the reunion as to the real truth of what happened when she was 17...
Love the bonus of the recipes at the end..with the storyline and hot steamy sex, this is a super read!