Dark Fire

"This was gonna be a 3 stars or 2 stars, I swear.<br/><br/>Cause look, I was excited to listen to Azar and the heroine's story, since we got to meet them in the previous and I found them intriguing.<br/><br/>But unfortunately, even though I enjoyed some things in this one, like a heroine with decent backbone, and a hero obsessed since the beginning... all good things...<br/><br/>The author ended up doing something I have complained about before with other books.<br/><br/>A pet peeve of mine, if you will...<br/><br/>I absolutely can't stand when authors make conflicts about race in books when the heroine is black/poc.<br/><br/>There was no reason for this book to mention the hero reading Harriet Tubman and 12 Years a Slave..<br/><br/>That is preposterous. What is this? A PBS documentary?<br/><br/>I've listened to read 8 books in this series with Caucasian heroines and race/slavery was never a "thing."<br/><br/>But now thay we have a black heroine, suddenly slavery, and world history of race is suddenly something we need to discuss. <br/><br/>I am uncomfortable. <br/><br/>I do not read romance to hear about race relations and slavery.<br/><br/>These topics are not romantic, and authors have no problems excluding them when it's a white couple...<br/><br/>I am tired."