Finished Playing with Fire by Gena Showalter this weekend.

I got this book because it’s about superheroes (sort of). The book focuses on Belle Jamison, a woman who drinks a secret formula in her mocha latte and is suddenly able to control the four elements — and finds out that there’s a whole world of people out there with special abilities. Like the sexy Rome Masters, a government agent who’s ordered to bring Belle in — no matter what.

Showalter wrote the book in first person, which I enjoyed (since I write in first person myself). Bella had a funny voice, and I really liked Tanner, one of the secondary characters who’s an empath.

I didn’t care too much for Rome. Then again, I usually want to slap the ultra alpha males in most books. But one thing really bothered me – when Rome reveals to Belle late in the book that he intended to turn her over to his agency, even though he swore up and down for the last hundred pages not to.

Belle is pissed at first, but then, she just forgives him. Just like that. Poof! That’s it. I forgive you. Let’s move on. Personally, I would have fricassed his ass, or frozen his limbs one at a time and then shattered. But hey, that’s just me. 😈

But overall, thumbs up. 

What about you? What have you read lately? Inquiring minds want to know …