World Famous Comics: Fire Me Up (Aisling Grey, Guardian, Book 2)
Fire Me Up (Aisling Grey, Guardian, Book 2)
By: Katie MacAlister Publisher: Signet Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Signet Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 368 Publication Date: May 03, 2005
Product Description: Aisling Grey is back-and in more trouble than ever. She thought being a courier would be easy. It's not. She thought being a Guardian would come naturally. It doesn't. She thought she could get out of being a wyvern's mate. She can't. And she never thought she'd be irresistible to men. But she is.
Short, but sweet. Entertaining characters, a light fun plot (minus the murders), and we learn a tiny bit about being a guardian. Most of the story is love, hate, love, hate between Aisling and Drake, which becomes annoying quick. Aisling and Drake aren't my favorite characters in a series due to Aisling's airheadedness, and Drakes blind arrogance. Yet it was a quick read, funny at times, and enough of a plot to keep me interested. I'd like to find out what happens with Drake and Aisling, but I feel like I already know. They will probably get back together, and fight, and break up, and get back together...
A book to enjoy, just don't think too hard This is the second book in the Aisling Grey Guardian series by Katie MacAlister. I did not think that this book was as good as the first book. I thought that the first book was cute, sexy, funny and had some original ideas. This book was cute, sometimes sexy, rarely funny and rehashed a lot of what we already learned in the first book. These are definitely way into the romance category and just slightly into the paranormal.
Aisling travels to Budapest, Hungary to go the GODTAM convention where she hopes to meet other people like herself (That is magical type folk) and to find a Guardian to mentor her. Unfortunately she bumps into Drake and finds out that he is still obsessed with her performing her duties as his mate; some of these duties happen to be attending meetings of the Dragons' that just happen to be at the hotel she is at. With Drake hovering and her demon, Jim, making snarky comments Aisling is having one heck of a time getting a mentor lined up.
Okay I pretty much know what I am getting into with these books. They are definitely not to be taken seriously, you need to leave all your notions about romantic relationships at the door, remember things won't necessarily make any sense, and remember Aisling is a bit of an airhead. Even going into reading this book with these things in mind I was a bit miffed at this book.
First the positive stuff: This was a cute, fun read. It was a quick read and the plot moved along nicely. There were lots of tastefully done steamy sex scenes. I think it is awesome that Aisling is trying to get training for her position as a Guardian. It bugs me to death when a character decides they would rather tough it out, than do the logical thing and get a little help from a mentor. I liked the introduction of the Silver Dragon, Tiffany the professional Virgin, and some of the new Guardians.
Okay now for the negative stuff. Aisling whines constantly, about pretty much everything. She can't make up her mind about anything; she hates Drake, she wants him, she hates him, etc. Her and Drake get in arguments over things that are very childish. I mean come on Drake is how old? You don't think he learned any communication skills in all that time? Aisling seems to have major ADD in this book and can't ever decide what to do next. I can understand Jim's frustration with her. Despite the fact that Aisling blunders through most of the book somehow she is uber-powerful and manages to right things (just like in the first book). Maybe this is supposed to be part of the humor?
It was an okay book, it was light-hearted and amused me. Just, please don't think about the plot or Aisling's intentions too hard or you will hurt your brain trying to make sense of it. This is a book to read quickly, take at face value, and then it's on to another book. I have the next two books in the series and I will read them because I have them.
hilarious, hot, and hard to put down This doesn't happen all that often. Usually, I enjoy a second book in a series because I got to know the characters in the first book and I'm happy to see them again, but it's usually at best just as good as the first. But as much as I loved You Slay Me, I loved Fire Me Up even more.
It didn't hurt that it takes place in Budapest, the site of the most romantic weekend of my life. *sigh*
Gotta say, though, I didn't leave any scorch marks on the sheets or burn up any hotel room doors when I was there.
Aisling is in Budapest to attend a supernatural conference to find a Guardian to apprentice under so she can learn more about her powers, along with her demon-in-dog-form Jim, who provides help and comic relief. Her cabbie from Paris, Rene, shows up with his usual savoir faire; there's a man who keeps predicting, correctly, all sorts of humiliating things that will happen to her; she's invaded by incubi; and she teams up with professional virgin Tiffany.... and then of course there's Drake Vireo, green wyvern, sexy and exasperating in pretty much equal measures--and he's extremely sexy --who's in town for some delicate negotiations between the various dragon septs.
I really don't want to go into any details, because if I start pointing out the good bits, I'll end up giving away the entire story.
Fire Me Up is hilarious, hot, and hard to put down. And it wins the award for "most creative use of fire in a sex scene." Just truly a joy to read.
Read on - The Series Gets Better and Better Be sure to read "You Slay Me" before reading this installment. I once again bought the audio version of this installment of the series and was not disappointed with it. It's worth the extra expense as Barabara Rosenblat does a fantastic job telling this fun story.
Aisling finds herself in Budapest to make another courier delivery and to attend a convention so that she can learn about "the other world". Of course, things don't go smoothly for Aisling and she finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation. Not only that, she finds that she finds that she is irrisistable to most men and she also has to pay up for the challenge that she wagered in book one.
Aisling also finds out what some of the responsibilities are to being the mate of a wivren and her relationship with Drake develops more.
Another fun installment of this very immaginative world created by McCalister. While there's sizzle to this story, it doesn't dominate the book.
Can't help but like her... In this second book of the Guardian series, Aisling Grey is back and at it again. Trouble seems to follow poor Aisling wherever she goes, but no worries, she has her trusty demon Jim and Rene, her cab driver friend back to help her out.
In this story Aisling is in Budapest to deliver an amulet to a mysterious hermit. Attend the Godtam conference and hopefully find someone to mentor her in how to be a Guardian. In the meantime her story with Drake, the wyvern of the Green Dragons continues to unfold since he is also in Budapest with the other dragon septs for a peace summit.
The mystery, romance, wit and humor of this book made it almost impossible not to like Aisling and feel sympathy and humor at her many mistakes.
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