REVIEW: Fire's Field (+$20 Amazon GC Giveaway!)

Title: Fire's Field

Author: Jillian Jacobs

Series: The Elemental #2

Pages: N/A

Date Published: 2015

Publisher: Green Moose Productions

Format: Kindle

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Source: Goddess Fish Blog Tours

Synopsis:
Bound by a dark enchantment, only an elemental flame can light the way. Forged in rage and sorrow, a dark witch’s spell travels down her ancestral line to Violet Levina. Enchanted with the power of the entire Electromagnetic spectrum—microwaves, gamma rays, radio waves, Violet is cursed with limitless energy and the obligation to destroy an insidious creature composed of dark matter.

For over five hundred years, Flint has served as Fire, aiding Earth’s environment and its people as one of four Elementals. Yet only once in his long existence has he been burned. A flaming redhead ignites the embers of his heart, but he finds her resistant to the heat building between them.

Knowing she must fulfill her destiny, Violet travels to her home in Ireland, accompanied by the fiery Elemental. Not fooled by his charms and brazen demeanor, Violet wishes only to shield him from the coming battle, but can’t deny the flames of desire flickering when she is at his side.

While standing together against unrelenting adversaries, false friends, family betrayals, and an underlying seed of darkness, they must burn bright, or the ruthless power behind the ancient spell will turn everything to ash.With Flint as her beacon in a field of darkness, Violet will discover that love holds the most powerful magic of all.

~My Thoughts~

Elemental magic is one of my favorite kinds of magic that paranormal genre can explore. There's something so interesting about the interplay of natural forces, with the character's natural body, and using magic to bring those two together into power. It's very easy to see the pseudo-science and how it could be logical, even real if magic did exist. 

Each of the elements (Air, Water, Fire, and Earth for those of you who weren't raging fanatics of Avatar the Last Airbender...) was represented by a particular character in Fire's Field and you could really see how each one's habits, mood, and personality were affected by the element they channeled. I didn't read the first book, but as the title hints, this book revolved more around the element of Fire, who was represented by Flint. 

The romance between Violet and Flint was...scorching...(ha you had to know that was coming right?). It was nice to see the chemistry pick up as they meet and get to know each other. Things flamed up a bit quickly for my liking and I didn't quite get the resolution that I was looking for, but as this is a series I'm supposing that there will be more romances and spontaneous combustions of passion and lust in later books. 

The whole concept of Elementals and Mother Nature fighting together to save the world hit kind of close to Captain Planet for me. I liked it a lot, but I would occasionally have ridiculous moments where I'd be hearing in my head..."When the powers of earth combine...CAPTAIN PLANET!" The story was great though, and soon enough the romance helped to make the story into it's own. 

I liked Fire's Field a lot. It didn't take too long to read. Maybe a few different metro trips across the city, and it made them so much more enjoyable! I'd give Fire's Field a try if you like magic and romance, and are interested in the elements and really solid pseudo-science! 

~Try an Excerpt!~

They were coming for her.

On the eve of her mother’s 25th birthday, a young witch fought back chills as the sounds of braying bloodhounds echoed through the forest. A single red stroke, mixed with the faintest purple, lit the darkening sky, as night, along with death, crept closer.

At the banks of River Nore, Sorcha rocked back and forth, tears of innocence-lost escaping down her cheeks. Heart splintering, she searched her memory for a spell to ease her mother’s torment. With her hands locked in the fabric of her mother’s woolen dress, she chanted pleas to the Goddess Isis to hear her cries and heal her mother.

To no avail.

The only answer came in the form of the demon’s sickness dripping from her mother’s mouth in a sludge of grimy gray mud.

Fear unlike anything she’d ever felt iced her heart, as once more she begged, swore her very life in exchange for the continued beat of her mother’s heart.

A piercing pain shot through her overburdened mind as the beast fought to break through her mental shields. Weakened by her angst and un-tested youth, she left a crack exposed, and the beast slipped in. Squinting her eyes closed, her entire body shaking with the will to deny the sick beast entrance, she couldn’t prevent his foul words from seeping through.

“Your mother paid for her defiance, for her inability to accept this gift only I could give her. Look at you simpering and shaking, if you weren’t so weak I’d use you, but no matter, I’ll be back.”

Drained from holding back the tempest, Sorcha let loose true sobs for the loss of the deepest love of her life, her solid fortress during every storm, the lyrical voice singing away her nightmares. Ignoring her drenched skirts, she released all her torment against her mother’s breast, barely catching the beat of her mother’s weakening heart between each aching moan torn from the depths of her soul.

No one came to her aid. No one soothed her broken spirit.

The sounds of the hounds drew closer, their howls a mad cacophony in her surreal world. The yellow-glow from fire-tipped sticks, created a mystical glow in the woods before her. Snaps and cracks of branches reverberated across the forest as the frenzied townspeople advanced to accuse and convict one of their own—a witch.

~Meet Jillian!~ 

In the spring of 2013, Jillian Jacobs changed her career path and became a romance writer. After reading for years, she figured writing a romance would be quick and easy. Nope! With the guidance of the Indiana Romance Writers of America chapter, she’s learned there are many "rules" to writing a proper romance. Being re-schooled has been an interesting journey, and she hopes the best trails are yet to be traveled.

Water’s Threshold, the first in Jillian’s Elementals series, was a finalist in Chicago-North’s 2014 Fire and Ice contest in the Women’s Fiction category. Jillian is a: Tea Guzzler, Polish Pottery Hoarder, and lover of all things Moose.The genres she writes under are: Paranormal and Contemporary with suspenseful elements. 

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