Written by Ilona Andrews, Burn for Me is the first in the Hidden Legacy series (which, honestly, I’m not a fan of that series name), and follows Nevada Baylor, PI, as she is hired to bring in a rich, supernaturally powerful, playboy who possibly started an arson and killed a man. She has no idea the powerful players she is about to get involved in.
Okay, now let’s talk about the other characters without discussing the plot points. One of the things I need to point out now is that I didn’t read the back of the book before reading this book. So I didn’t know who the romantic interest was going to be for Nevada. No idea. And with that, other than the prologue, you don’t meet the romantic interest until about… I think it was 90 pages in? A good ways in. And he doesn’t really act like a romantic lead.
With that, I loved all of the characters in this novel and the depth they had. I liked the slow burn in this book, and throughout the next two. Nevada is a fun character, and Rogan is very much your classic rich bad boy who doesn’t think he is good enough for the girl, but still really, really needs to protect her.
The support characters are also great, though I wish we could get more with Nevada’s family. They kind of get left behind as side kicks while she goes off and does her own thing, which it sounds like wasn’t the standard procedure before all of this happened.
I would say, the one improvement I would want from this book, is I’d honestly would want a longer book where we got to know the characters a lot more. But, with that, the pacing was wonderful and the characters delightfully sassy.
If you enjoy action and adventure, with just a touch of romance, this book is for you. I can tell you, though, if you aren’t okay with mature scenes, then this is the book to stop at. Going forward, the next two books do have very mature scenes.
