They are sexist, and ageist, and all sorts of other things that people frequently are, but they are also humans. Center crafted the dudes of the firehouse. I am exhausted by one dimensional misogynists in fiction and was so grateful to see how Ms. When we got the initial description of her new chief, I got nervous. Kristen: Hear, hear! I co-sign all of that. The love stories here–and there are many encompassing the panoply of love–are built by people taking small steps, stopping and listening, really listening, to those around them, and by asking, awkwardly and often poorly, for help. I also was thrilled to see the characters solving their problems with real world solutions.
I am not a fan of man-bashing or one note characterizations and there is little of that here. I especially love that the flawed men, Cassie’s co-workers, are sexist, upon occasion loutish, and routinely stellar human beings. I love–love!–how the characters are all grounded in reality. Instead, it’s a story about the life that happens when you’re making other plans.ĭabney: I very much enjoyed it. Grave implies to me that there’s a bit of gothic darkness for the sake of it and that’s not the feeling I got here. The story felt like it could leap off the page at any moment because these things all happen. “Grave” might be a little… I think what I found was a lot of real. I’m going to assume that there were several threads in this book you found grave. This book, even with its serious issues, I was able to read without recoiling from the prose. I just read a contemporary romance that was so gravely dark I could barely get through it. Center before, but I’m always game for a story of “woman in a man’s world” and Kate Meader and Shannon Stacey have certainly helped me fall for firehouse stories! All that said, I was not quite prepared for the gravity of this book.ĭabney: Maybe it’s a trend. Kristen: Dabney, I didn’t really know what to expect going into this book, besides there was some serious buzz about it. Cassie can feel her resolve slipping…but will she jeopardize her place in a career where she’s worked so hard to be taken seriously? And because of the advice her old captain gave her: don’t date firefighters. Except for the handsome rookie, who doesn’t seem to mind having Cassie around. Hazing, a lack of funding, and poor facilities mean that the firemen aren’t exactly thrilled to have a “lady” on the crew, even one as competent and smart as Cassie.
The tough, old-school Boston firehouse is as different from Cassie’s old job as it could possibly be. But when her estranged and ailing mother asks her to uproot her life and move to Boston, it’s an emergency of a kind Cassie never anticipated. As one of the only female firefighters in her Texas firehouse, she’s seen her fair share of them, and she’s excellent at dealing with other people’s tragedies.
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