Review: Fire Season by KD Casey

Fire Season Fire Season by K.D. Casey
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This was the second baseball book I read by KD Casey and of the two (Unwritten Rules, and this one, Fire Season) Fire Season is the more accessible and traditional romance. The baseball is less important to the main characters - it's still really important since it's their whole job, but it's not nearly the same level as Unwritten Rules - and the baseball is easier to understand. The romance isn't as melancholy or dense and is a straightforward domestic slowburn. While these might be good things to other readers, I find KD Casey's writing style suited for a dense story and the simple romance and less focus on baseball in Fire Season made it the weaker book of the two. I'm trying not to compare the books so much but I read them really closely together so I can't help it.

Some things I thought were done well was the integration of the ex-wife character without making her a villain or erasing her completely, the handling of mental health and addiction, consensual dog adoption, caretaking between the two main characters, and the build up of the romance.

I could have done with less conversations missing approximately 100 steps. For example, when the main character adopts a dog and takes the dog over to his ex-wife's house there is some internal monologue about something else and then the ex-wife asks for a spare key to his new house because she is going to take care of the dog when they're on the road. a) there was no discussion on the responsibilities of the ex-wife in the dog caretaking b) how did we jump right to her asking for a spare key???? This happened at least a few times in the book so I assume it's a style choice for the author. I suppose we still got there in the end but in a romance book I want to see how it happens!

In conclusion, another solid baseball romance by KD Casey.



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