Summary from Amazon:
Lydia
Kincaid's shipping back to Boston, but she's not happy about it. She left to
get away from the firefighting community—her father was a firefighter, her
brother's a firefighter and, more importantly, her ex is a firefighter. But
family is number one and her father needs her help running the pub he bought
when he retired. Soon, Lydia finds it hard to resist the familiar comfort and
routine, and even harder to resist her brother's handsome friend Aidan.Aidan Hunt is a firefighter because of the Kincaid family. He's had the hots for Lydia for years, but if ever a woman was off-limits to him it's her. Aside from being his mentor's daughter, she's his best friend's sister. The ex-wife of a fellow firefighter. But his plan to play it cool until she leaves town again fails, and soon he and Lydia have crossed a line they can't un-cross.
As Aidan and Lydia's flirtation turns into something more serious, Lydia knows she should be planning her escape. Being a firefighter's wife was the hardest thing she's ever done and she doesn't know if she has the strength to do it again. Aidan can't imagine walking away from Boston Fire—even for Lydia. The job and the brotherhood are his life; but if he wants Lydia in it, he'll have to decide who's first in his heart.
My Thoughts:
I liked
the story for the most part but the main female sometimes needed a good smacking
on occasion. I like Lydia in that she
was confident (most of the time) and that she stood up for her sister when no
one else really did but sometimes she took some crap (mainly, from her family)
that I don’t think she should have or would have “in real life”.
My other
issue with this story was that things would start to get sexy then like Emeril
Lagasse *BAM* it was over (and NOT because the author was trying to keep it
clean-ish, that ship had sailed). If you
are going to start some sexy times don’t just rush past them. As they said on
Seinfeld, “You don’t ‘yada-yada’ sex!”
This is
not to say that I didn’t like Heat Exchange because I did! The storyline was
good and a slightly older woman falling for her younger brother’s best friend
is not a plotline you see often, so that was new. I cannot imagine being in a relationship of
any kind with a firefighter as it would be very stressful and hard to
handle.
Coming from a family
filled with firefighters I can see where Lydia struggled with her feelings for
Aidan, I just wish she had not been so wishy-washy about talking about it. One
minute she is a strong, confident woman but the next, not so much. There was an
attempt at angst but I never really felt we delved very deep into the feelings
enough to really feel all that bad for Lydia.
Overall,
I liked the characters, the fresh plot line, and I think that this series has a
lot of potential. I’m hoping that in the
next installment that there are a little bit deeper dives into feelings and
less wishy-washy females.
3/5 Stars
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