Burnished by Fire

By Fire, Book 3

By: Andrew Grey

Narrated by: Peter B. Brooke

Firefighters Lee Stanton and Dirk Krause need a vacation. Work seems to have other ideas: They spend the day before their holiday begins battling a fire that claims three lives. Thankfully, Lee and Dirk will have a whole week on the high seas to recover. They're having a wonderful time - until they spot Dirk's miserable, closed-minded father on the ship. Between his father's presence and his guilt over the lives he couldn't save, Dirk feels sure his romantic cruise is going to tank.

But then he saves another passenger's life - and maybe he can salvage something else too.

©2012 Andrew Grey (P)2014 Dreamspinner Press

Burnished by Fire

Book three of the By Fire series, and the finale of Dirk and Lee’s story. Again, I have to say this is not really a standalone and the first two books should be read first to get the full impact of Lee & Dirks story.

Lee and Dirk need a vacation from their lives and decide to go on a relaxing cruise…
Unfortunately, Dirks horrible father seems to have booked the same cruise…

I think this was a good ending to Lee and Dirks story together. We get to see them both letting go and having fun on the cruise. Meeting new people, still saving lives. Dirk finally gets some much needed closure on the drama between him and his father, and just maybe they can reconcile their differences. We finally get to see Dirk completely out and proud of himself and Lee. I love that Lee and Dirk get a happy ending and find the other half of themselves in each other. They are super cute together.

Audio – I’m glad that the author stuck with the same narrator during each installment of Lee and Dirks story. We get to see not only Dirk and Lee growing as characters and a couple. But I feel like we get to see the narrator Peter grow as well. He really just got better with each book in this series, and this was definitely my favorite. I really enjoyed listening to the narration of this book.

Sad to see them go

For the last book with this couple (for now hopefully); this book was kind of boring. It has less to do with Dirk and Lee, and more to do with Dirk and his problems with his father. Don't get me wrong there are plenty of Dirk and Lee moments, but it was missing that little bit of emotional give they have in every book. Peter B. Brooke did a fantastic job as always he's probably one of my favorite narrators now.

A nice ending to the story

Any additional comments?

While this was not my favorite of the three books. It was a good follow up and a nice ending to the story of Dirk and Lee.
In the third, and what appears to be final, book in the Fire series, we once again spend some time with Lee Stanton and Dirk Krause, firefighters and partners. Lee is the gentle giant of the two, a self-assured mountain of a man with patience for his lover as big as his heart. Dirk has been slowly coming to terms with being out and proud, and his love for his younger partner colors all he does.

broken book

this is the third book is the Fire series and to me it seems to be just one book that was chopped into three short stories. I can only guess that it is because of money. you have to buy three books to get the full story. as for the story, it is just OK. there is not much going on in it. it reads like a TV melodrama. it was not bad but aside from sex every chapter there really is not much else. I would prefer a good book that has a beginning, a conflict and a final or solution to that conflict. this had some conflict but aside from getting a charity event going it was not much of a conflict. read it for fun, it's a fast read.

Good finish

I loved getting this glimpse into their lives and some closure. It was nice to see Dirk out and happy. I was happy to see the same narrator through out makes it so much better and it's a pretty quick listen.