[ARC REVIEW] All Fired Up by Jenn Burke

All Fired Up

by Jenn Burke
Ashes & Dust #1
ebook
Publication Date: May 18th 2021

Once bitten. Twice burned. Forever bonded.

 

Don’t miss this riveting and romantic spin-off series from Jenn Burke, author of Not Dead Yet.

Paranormals are dying. All over the city, with no explanation and only one thing in common: their magic is missing.

Vampire and private investigator Evan Fournier isn’t supposed to be taking on paranormal cases, but when the murderer hits close to home, he agrees to look into it. The last thing he expects is to become a target himself—and then to become irrevocably bonded to the man who just tried to kill him.

With his memory gone and his soul bonded to a stranger, former firefighter Colin Zhang wants to be anywhere else. He doesn’t have a damn clue why he just tried to kill Evan, and he didn’t even know about magic until just now. The sooner he can get back to his real life, the better.

But every time either of them tries to leave, pure agony stops them short. Forced to work with Evan or suffer the consequences, Colin must excavate the secrets buried in his missing memories while battling two rising threats: the conspiracy behind the murder, and his mutual attraction to the bond mate he never wanted.

~ ARC kindly provided by the author in exchange for my honest opinion

I loved, LOVED this book. I really loved Evan in the Not Yet Dead series, which All Fired Up is a sequel to. In fact, I was a bit mad about what Jenn Burke did at the end of the third book, so I’m really glad that Evan finally has his own series 🙂

I have read the Not Yet Dead series multiple times by now and I still love it so it was no surprise to me that I also loved All Fired Up and will also loved the next books that are going to be in this series. I also really like Jenn Burke’s writing style. Also vampires and private investigators are so up my alley. The combination of my two favourite things can only result in a good book 🙂

The Ashes & Dust series plays a few years in the future, they are already in the year 2024. Normally I’m not a big fan of time jumps but in this case it makes total sense and is even appropriate.

(Sidenote: Am I the only one or does the number 2024 just look weird? lol I’m still getting used to writing 2021 and if I’m really honest I just put 2019 on a paper last week, so… oops)

I really felt for Colin, poor guy. I won’t say more about Colin and his character development because that’s a really big spoiler. I definitely can’t wait to see Evan’s and Colin’s relationship progression though. Those two will make me swoon so much, I know it. 

Also I really, really hope there will be an audiobook of this, preferably also read by Greg Boudreaux because I love his voice and he is one of the few english narrators I actually like (I’m quite picky when it comes to narrator voices)

The only thing that I didn’t like was my inability to read slower. Why do I consume books in such a speed? I guess the only thing I can do, is reread this book again right now. The biggest problem with reading an ARC is that the next book is even farther away than if you get a book on the normal release date. Book two (according to Amazon) will be titled House on Fire and will be available in November…. November!! That’s eight freaking month. Who do I need to bribe to get it earlier and does that person accept german chocolate? LOL

All Fired Up was also a very welcome distraction from writing my stupid essay. I’m nearly done so I guess I’m going back to writing it… *sigh*

Rating: 5 stars