BOOK REVIEW: FIGHTING FIRE BY JIFFY KATE

Title: Fighting Fire

Author: Jiffy Kate

Genre: Romance

Published on: September 28, 2017, self-published

Fire is a fickle bitch. It comes in all shapes and sizes.

The power held within its heat and flames can either create something strong and beautiful or destroy everything in its path.

Sometimes it does both without you even realizing it.

If you want to live life, your only choice is to fight the fire. You might still get burned, but you’ll be stronger in the end.

Back when I read Finding Focus, I wasn’t aware the book was part of a series. It wraps up Dani’s and Micah’s story neatly. It wasn’t until 2020 that I decided to revisit the book. That’s when I found out there are three sequels. Book two is Deacon’s and Cami’s story. I wanted to continue reading about Dani and Micah, so I jumped forward to Fighting Fire. This book is Micah’s more than Dani’s, as the chapters hint. In Dani’s story, the chapter titles had a camera adorning them. This one has a glass with liquid and an ice cube. If you’ll remember, Micah co-owns two restaurants with his older brother Deacon. One is called Pockets, and it’s in French Settlement. The other is Grinders, located in Baton Rouge. Fighting Fire starts after a big tragedy.

This book reveals that Micah’s biggest dream is to open his own restaurant. Pockets and Grinders don’t count because he opened them with Deacon. Micah yearns to strike out on his own. He gets the opportunity when an old acquaintance shows up with an offer. She’s Alex Collins, who owns a building in the French Quarter in New Orleans. That’s just where Micah most wants to have his restaurant. There’s no love lost between the Landrys and Alex, though. Unlike Dani, Alex is a selfish opportunist. She’s also implied to be a spoiled rich girl who relies on Daddy to put out her fires.

BOOK REVIEW: GENERATION BY HEATHER HILDENBRAND

Title: Generation

Author: Heather Hildenbrand

Genre: Science Fiction, Young Adult

Published on: October 13, 2015 by Alloy Entertainment (Kindle edition)

After months of pretending to be Raven Rogen, Ven feels less like a clone and more like a human than ever. But when Raven’s father, Titus—the same man who engineered Ven—discovers her plan to escape, everything she’s worked so hard for is taken away in one explosive moment.

Now she’s imprisoned in Twig City, the secret warehouse where she grew up. She spends her days plotting ways to get back to the outside world, determined to topple Titus’s empire and free every last Imitation. But Titus’s reach is extensive and his plans are more deadly than she realized.

In the shocking conclusion to the Imitation series, one wrong move could mean the end for Ven and everyone she’s come to love.

Heather Hildenbrand’s clone series comes to an end in this third and last installment. Deviation ended with a big cliffhanger. The heroine, Ven, is an Imitation who has been working to free her kind from Titus Rogen, their tyrant of a creator. Imitations turned out not to be as loyal or subservient as Titus wanted them to be. No matter how much they trained, the clones could not fully become their Authentics. They had their own personalities, desires, and view of the world.

Despite Ven’s efforts, Titus found out about her plot to take him down. After making her watch her allies die in an explosion, Titus sent Ven back to Twig City. That’s the secret building where he keeps the Imitations he creates. Deviation ends with Titus putting Ven into stasis. Now, Ven is woken up for science tests. Titus wants to know what it is about Ven that causes her to disobey him. His goal is for the next generation of Imitations to be unquestioningly loyal. If Ven's disobedience is genetic, Titus will suppress it.