I voluntarily reviewed a copy of this book (given by Netgalley)...

I love a good frenemies to lovers romance and I was not disappointed with this book. Sloane, Erin’s bestie, and Reece, Erin’s brother, have a very frenemy-like relationship because of slight incident that happened a year prior.

Sloane is a sassy and fiery woman who doesn’t let Reece get away with macho-man act which leads to some intense build up. Unfortunately for Reece, Sloane totally believes in pay-back and that is where the firefighter auction comes into play. However, her purchase of Reece doesn’t go exactly as either of them expected and feelings begin to develop, but it’s not complete smooth sailing. Meanwhile, Reece’s fire chief is looking to find any way to get rid of him.

I loved Reece and Sloane; their relationship was so intense and fun to watch as it changed. I didn’t want it to end! Also I loved Peaches and her snazzy attire.

I’m pretty sure Hollywood is next book because a certain arson investigator seems to have captured his interest ;)

Everything was fine between long-time friends Reece and Sloane until a year ago, when she hit on him and he turned her down because he knew she'd been drinking. Now, they trade jabs at each other to conceal their feelings. Since Sloane is best friends with Reece's sister, they end up in the same place frequently. The story unfolds as they are forced to spend extra time together after Sloane buys four favors from Reece at the firefighters auction. It is fun to watch the things she makes him do and see if they will admit the feelings they have for each other. Enjoyable book. Not sure if another one is coming, since there's a third firefighter on the team. I felt like there was a loose end left that didn't relate to the relationship, but something I would have liked to know an outcome on.

This is the second book in the flirting with fire series. This has become a new favorite series for me.

Sloane is best friends with Erin whose brother,Reese, is a fireman that Sloane doesn't get along with after a particularly embarrassing night that she wishes she could forget.

When Reese is part of the firefighter auction where the firefighter has to complete 4 tasks for the person who bids on them, Sloane bids on him so she can make him miserable. But it turns out she likes him more than she thought.

I really like this series and can't wait to read more . I received this book from net galley in exchange for a honest review.

I had a lot of trouble getting into this one. I found that I struggled to relate to the characters, although I liked Sloane’s pluckiness. I ended up skimming a fair amount of the book. It got a little bit better about 3./4 of the way through and I got into it more, but overall I can only give it a 2/5.

Jennifer Blackwood's Up in Flames is hot! The chemistry between Sloane and Reece is sexy and amazing to watch. I'm now tempted to dye my hair blue too.

A great, but short, entertaining read.

Sloane has known Reece since school. They aren't really friends as such, but hang out with the same group of people, so are inevitablly forced to spend time together. After a drunken incident a year ago, where she propisitioned him and he refused, the atmosphere between them has been tense. As a way of getting back at him, she bids for him in an auction, and then has a month to get tim to do 4 'favours' for her. This is when the fun begins!

I couldn't get enough of Reece and Sloane. These two characters bickering was comical! Their banter was fun, flirty and sometimes juvenile. However there was hurt on the side of Sloane that made some of the banter hard to read in different places.

I loved the concept of this book. The though of winning in an auction the person who embarrassed you who is then forced to do chores for you. I loved the things Reece has to do especially anything having to do with the dog who likes to pick out it's own outfits. The mental picture of this makes me laugh every time!

Reece is a guy who was trying to do the right thing in a very wrong way and ends up hurting Sloane and the love/hate relationship begins. He is this ultra masculine man who because his boss doesn't like him is forced to be put on the fireman auction block. Much to his dislike, Sloane wins him and the fun begins.

I really liked the scene in which Reece sort of text crashes Sloane's blind date!

I would highly recommend this book! This book was wonderful as a stand alone but I do think you should read book one not only because it is amazing but you get a taste of Reece and Sloane in it.

I love a good friends to lover's book. I also love a best friend and a friend's sister book. This one had both! Add to that hot firefighters, and you have a winner. Reece and Sloane had a love/hate relationship. I was a little put off that we didn't find out until half way through this book as to why, And the reason was kind of immature. The book quickly escalated from hate to love in pages,

How did i not know about this author? I really enjoyed this enemies to friends romance. It took a while for the chemistry to click but I think it was worth it. It was an easy read and I enjoyed the mystery of the arsonist. There were some really funny moments that made up for the slower ones. I will be looking for more from this author.

I absolutely loved Up in Flames. Reeve and Sloane are complete opposites and completely perfect for each other. I loved the banter between them and found myself literally laughing out loud. I didn't know this book was part of a series when I read it but it can definitely be read as a stand alone. I will be checking out the first book in this series.

Great book from page one! Sloane and Reece butt heads like you wouldn’t believe. They act like enemies until the night Sloane bids on Reece at a charity auction. And in four chores he has to do for her, they wind up finally admitting their feelings for each other. Both these characters are great and well developed. They definitely made for a great story! This was my first read by this author and definitely going to be reading more.

I was looking forward to reading this book. I’m in love with these firefighters. This story is really cute. The shenanigans of the big fire fighter and the tiny dog had me laughing out loud. I’m glad I got to read this book. I can’t wait for more !

Firefighter Reece understands being in the hot seat. With his supervisor on his back, Reece needs to take part in a fundraiser - literally pimping himself out to the highest bidder for four favors in the time span of four weeks. Unfortunately for him Sloane wins him and is set on revenge. Sloane wants to make him squirm for walking away a night of drunken sex. But what she does not understand is that he walked away because he has feelings for her. While working o the favors will this be the perfect time to show Sloane that he is not the scumbag she takes him for? Or will the firefighter have to dose the flames when he is around her? With beautifully written characters and a storyline that had me laughing as well as sighing, this was a great book. I was hooked from the opening pages and was sad to see the story end. I am looking forward to reading more from this author.

Can I just say how much I love Sloane? This is honestly my favorite couple ever! I love how she and Reece are always at each other's throats but the passion behind it, is just amazing.

This book made me laugh so hard at times.

Can't wait for the next one!

This is the second book in Jennifer Blackwood’s Flirting with Fire series. I did not read the first book in the series. The story follows Reece (a firefighter) and Sloan (an advance practitioner at the hospital). We are introduced to them when Reece is injured on the job and Sloane is stitching him up in the ER. From the beginning, there is a lot of angst and sarcasm between them. We learn there is a complicated history.

I thought this story was well written but I had a hard time connecting with characters. I like push and pull between the hero and heroine but this was almost too much. I didn’t really care about either of the characters and I wasn’t invested in whether they got together in the end.

Up in Flames in the second book in the Flirting with Fire series. I hadn't read the first book, but went back and started it before reading this one- once I realized this was a series.

Unfortunately, this book didn't work for me. I felt like there was so much back and forth between the two main characters Reece and Sloane that I couldn't connect with them at all. I ended up skimming the last 1/2 of it.

Wow! Never have I loved a book as quickly as this one. Up in Flames by Jennifer Blackwood is smoking hot. Page after page I utterly consumed, I could not put this down . I will definitely make it a point to read many more by this author.

3 1/2 stars out of 5
Jennifer Blackwood tries hard to create sexual tension between Sloane and Reece though snide remarks but instead it comes off childish and a little immature. The story isn't any special and the many times I flipped though the pages because the story didn't seem to be moving forward.

The princess dog was a nice touch and brought some fun moments to the story.

All in all it is a typical romance with two people who act more like children in adult form.

The side story about who is setting the fires and the people who are found in them was interesting.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher Montlake for the advance copy of Jennifer Blackwood Up In Flames

Jennifer Blackwood is back with some hot firefighters with this second book Up in Flames. This is an amazing enemies to lover read. Not only do you get Reece the hot firefighter but you get sassy Sloane too. If you've read the first book in the Flirting with Fire series Burning Up, then you know that Sloane is Erin's best friend and Jake is Reece's and that Reece and Erin are siblings. I love Sloane. She is strong and feisty and you get why she is angry with Reece once you read this. Reece is known to be a bit of a playboy and amazing at his job. A few obstacles bring Sloane and Reece together and is wonderful to watch them go from the I can't stand you to the need to have you. They just have that love/hate relationship that will draw you in from the start. You feel bad for all that Reece is put through but once you see the changes in him you really grow to love him. How can you not swoon a little for Reece. I love the Flirting with Fire series and I can't wait for the next one.

Somehow I feel as though I need this caveat, as always, before I begin this review. My expectations, when it comes to romantic fiction are tuned differently when when I read general fiction; better put, the very classification of the genre shapes what I naturally want to read of my protagonists, so their traits are looked at not just in terms of their social contributions (good soldier/cop/firefighter), or their generosities to their families, or how often they mow the lawn for their blind neighbours, for instance, which many authors love to highlight.

In contrast, I typically look at romantic heroism through the lens of other qualities, such as integrity, commitment, the care and concern because this genre is precisely one in which such things seem necessary for the guaranteed HEA that is its peculiar characteristic. I’ve been confronted with too many protagonists who fall out of this framework of late, and instead conform to stereotypes that have me rolling my eyes, which accounts for my inability to like a book more because of it.

Jennifer Blackwood’s ‘Up in Flames’ was unfortunately, yet another one of those for me. It’s certainly a story that will appeal to others: the rather light-hearted feel, the slight bit of angst to stir up some emotions about a backstory accounting for present-day terrible behaviour and the eventual but rocky road to redemption and a HEA.

What stood out for me was the very relatable Sloane, but then I’ve always liked seeing this sort of scrappy strength in a romantic heroine: somewhat bitter about a breakup but still digging in, hanging on in control, refusing to be vulnerable, with her brain turning to mush at the sight of Reece’s body being the only cringeworthy characteristic I found.

In contrast, Reece felt like too much of the clichéd, ego-filled, manwhore arsehole player for me—doing the rounds with eight of the nurses in Sloane’s workplace first made him beyond distasteful (armed with the usual excuse of having been hurt so long ago and thus is into emotionless hooking up from now onwards) in contrast to Sloane’s impressive sticking it through with her one and only long-term relationship despite it ending badly. Adding the fact that he’d always had a thing for her on and off throughout most of their lives, was waffling about the idea of ‘them’ up until quite literally the last few lines in the second-last chapter…well, I couldn’t quite find too much of a basis to even root for this pairing when there didn’t seem to be that much of an active push for both to be together.

The enemies-to-lovers trope is a deliciously cool one (which had me jumping on this) but with constant thoughts intruding about Sloane deserving way better than settling for what I honestly thought was a chemistry-less relationship, this is clearly not a book that worked for me.