Playing with Fire by Gena Showalter
Genre: Paranormal Romance with lots of tongue in cheek humor
Blurb on back: Used to be my greatest achievement was holding a job more than three days. Now suddenly I can shoot fireballs, chil your drink or blow-dry your hair at fifty paces with a blink of my eye!
It all started when this crazy scientist dropped something in my Grande Mocha Latte. Of course I got wicked sick. Next morning I'm waking up with this total hottie bending over me. He tells me 1) his name's Rome Masters, 2) he's a government agent and 3) I can control the four elements with a thought. He seems even less pleased by my (apparently irreversible) transformation than I am . . .Because now he'll have to kill me.
My Thoughts: Hilarious. Have you ever read a book and thought to yourself, "This could be a real person." Granted the who super powers the main character, Belle, gets are not possible, but her entire attitude towards life is very life like. Several times I identified with the character. She starts the book off as a waitress who does not like her job and whom customers are very rude to. She is rude back. I have felt like that many times or wanted to act just like that when I have worked in the retail world. You just want to say bite me. Belle does, though not in those words.
X-Men and Superman have nothing on Belle, though she probaly identifies with some of them. Belle had the unfortunate luck to drink a really bad Mocha and become a superhero with some awesome superpowers. Powers over fire, wind, earth, and water. Belle struggles throughout the book to determine if this is what she wants and how to deal with her powers. Let's just say she causes a few fires before she gets it right. But in the end like all good romances she perserves and gets the guy, a dark sensual hero who has a bit of the cat in him.
Favorite Quote: "My friend Sherridan----the only friend I had, really, since she didn't mind the fact that I had no free time......told me the devil on my right shoulder must have brutally strangled the angel on my left, destroying any hint of moral influence." (Playing with Fire by Gena Showalter)
Blurb on back: Used to be my greatest achievement was holding a job more than three days. Now suddenly I can shoot fireballs, chil your drink or blow-dry your hair at fifty paces with a blink of my eye!
It all started when this crazy scientist dropped something in my Grande Mocha Latte. Of course I got wicked sick. Next morning I'm waking up with this total hottie bending over me. He tells me 1) his name's Rome Masters, 2) he's a government agent and 3) I can control the four elements with a thought. He seems even less pleased by my (apparently irreversible) transformation than I am . . .Because now he'll have to kill me.
My Thoughts: Hilarious. Have you ever read a book and thought to yourself, "This could be a real person." Granted the who super powers the main character, Belle, gets are not possible, but her entire attitude towards life is very life like. Several times I identified with the character. She starts the book off as a waitress who does not like her job and whom customers are very rude to. She is rude back. I have felt like that many times or wanted to act just like that when I have worked in the retail world. You just want to say bite me. Belle does, though not in those words.
X-Men and Superman have nothing on Belle, though she probaly identifies with some of them. Belle had the unfortunate luck to drink a really bad Mocha and become a superhero with some awesome superpowers. Powers over fire, wind, earth, and water. Belle struggles throughout the book to determine if this is what she wants and how to deal with her powers. Let's just say she causes a few fires before she gets it right. But in the end like all good romances she perserves and gets the guy, a dark sensual hero who has a bit of the cat in him.
Favorite Quote: "My friend Sherridan----the only friend I had, really, since she didn't mind the fact that I had no free time......told me the devil on my right shoulder must have brutally strangled the angel on my left, destroying any hint of moral influence." (Playing with Fire by Gena Showalter)
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