Audio Book Review: Born In Fire By K.F. Breene

Born In Fire
(Fire and Ice Trilogy #1)
By K.F. Breene

Narrated By: Nicole Poole
Length: 10 hours and 23 minutes

Heart pounding and laugh out loud funny, Wall Street Journal Bestselling author K.F. Breene will take you on a magical joy ride you won’t soon forget.

Supernatural Bounty Hunter isn’t the sort of thing you see on LinkedIn. But with a rare type of magic like mine, I don’t have many options.

So dangerous or not, the job is mine. And it was going fine, until an old as sin vampire stole my mark, and with it, my pay day.

Knowing I’m poor and desperate, he has offered me a job. I’ll have to work by his side to help solve a top secret case.

Everyone knows not to trust vampires. Especially a hot elder vampire. But without any other jobs coming up, I’m stuck. As I uncover a web of lies and treachery, revealing an enemy I didn’t know existed, the truth of my identity is threatened. I might make it out alive, only to end up in a gilded cage.

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My Review:

I have a love-hate relationship with this novel. I've read this author's novels in the past and have adjusted, somewhat, to her writing style. Heck, I've even truly enjoyed a few of her books in the past, but something about how this was written just didn't mesh well with me.

There were more than a handful of scenes where the heroine has walked to a certain spot in a house for example, after some dialogue or inner monologue she randomly mentions how the driver is weird. How did she get from Point A to B and not narrate or mention it in her inner monologue so the story can be seamless in my head? Was this just me? 

Another problem of mine with this novel was the pacing. I initially DNFed this novel because of pacing. It takes the heroine 3 hours (of the audio book) to kick off the actual story. What the heck!? From the synopsis, this novel is supposed to be "heart-pounding". The only thing making my heart pound is my anxiety and the high blood pressure the pacing of this novel provoked in me!

Reagan was an interesting heroine, to say the least! She was sassy and sarcastic. I loved a lot of her one-liners! Though I disliked that she crossed the line into being downright rude for almost nothing very often. Her temper also got the best of her and some situations she found herself in were tragically hilarious.

Darius was something, alright. He came off as very guarded and stoic. Though he made his romantic interest in Reagan pretty clear at the beginning of their partnership and it evolved, somewhat, throughout the novel. I liked how he did his best to protect her in the end and I'm curious to see what the future holds for them.

The ending was actually pretty nice! I felt so bad for Reagan possibly being screwed over again. After all she's been through this again! It sounds like Reagan and Darius might meet again sometime soon for yet another much more dangerous adventure.

The Audio Book:

I adore Nicole Poole's narration in general but it sounded like she was speaking into a low-quality microphone for this novel. I've heard her narrations in other novels that sounded much crisper. Though I learned to ignore it, it did initially take away from the story.

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