{"id":1035,"date":"2012-09-01T18:04:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T23:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2013-03-01T18:06:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T00:06:39","slug":"firestorm-a-first-responders-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/firestorm-a-first-responders-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Firestorm: A First Responders Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Picture15.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1036\" style=\"border: 0pt none; float: left; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px;\" alt=\"cover of Firestorm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Picture15-193x300.png\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Picture15-193x300.png 193w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Picture15.png 307w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Find this book in a library near you!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/659768724\">Radclyffe. Firestorm: A First Responders Novel.\u00a0Bold Strokes, 2011.\u00a0 Paperback. 273p. $16.95. 978-1-60282-232-0<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Eight-time Lambda Literary Award finalist and president of Bold Strokes Books has released the second book in the First Responders series that introduced Mallory \u201cIce\u201d James, a year-round forest ranger, wildland firefighter, and smokejumper. Mallory is also a trained paramedic and search and rescue member, who serves as a training manager for the U.S. Forest Service.<\/p>\n<p>Surviving and succeeding in a traditionally male environment, Mallory faces demons at the start of a new training season as she lives openly a small town near the base and her work.\u00a0 Comfortable in her skin, Mallory has managed to get herself under control after losing two members the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>Control, that is, until a new recruit is added through nontraditional channels. Jac Russo is the lesbian and embarrassing daughter of political bigwig Franklin Russo, a rightwing senator from Idaho.\u00a0 An Iraq veteran and trained S&amp;R member, Jac throws off Mallory\u2019s sense of order and rules, bringing romance to her life.<\/p>\n<p>Mallory eventually thaws to Jac\u2019s romantic overtures, falling in love just as Jac draws away into her own protective shell at the provocation of Jac\u2019s father and his political entourage.\u00a0Characters in the book are not always who they seem to be in this page-turner.<\/p>\n<p>Filled with politics, romance, and detailed realistic experiences of training and working as a fire jumper and S&amp;R member, this novel will appeal to the adventurous and romantic, those who enjoy the steamy sex scenes characteristic in Radclyffe\u2019s novels.<\/p>\n<p>With today\u2019s rising interest in the lives for \u201cfirst responders,\u201d Firestorm is highly recommended for any adult collection. The novel also raises awareness of the implications of family, politics and love on those who do not fit into the traditional mold.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Reviewer: <strong>s.n.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radclyffe. Firestorm: A First Responders Novel.\u00a0Bold Strokes, 2011.\u00a0 Paperback. 273p. $16.95. 978-1-60282-232-0. Eight-time Lambda Literary Award finalist and president of Bold Strokes Books has released the second book in the First Responders series that introduced Mallory \u201cIce\u201d James, a year-round forest ranger, wildland firefighter, and smokejumper. Mallory is also a trained paramedic and search and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}