Through the Fire
by Shawn Grady
Paperback
Price: £8.99
Publisher:Bethany House imprint of Baker Pub from Lion
Published:July 2009
ISBN:978-0-764-20595-8
GoodBookStall Review:
Through the Fire is categorised as a suspense fiction book written by a fire-fighter and paramedic in Reno, Nevada, USA. This is Grady’s debut book but it is a good read.
As I knew very little about fire fighting except for what I had seen on London’s Burning years ago and the film Backdraft, this gave an insight into life in this service albeit the plot dictated some of the more dramatic and fictitious scenes. Even though I enjoyed reading this novel I did get annoyed about that thing that some novelists do – the thesaurus look up – a perfectly good word is substituted for a word that just doesn’t fit or sound right, maybe it is a language thing, American English can sound odd to those of us used to the Queen’s English.
That aside the overall plot was intriguing and entertaining if not so believable at times – like how many times can the fire-fighters be called out in a place like Reno – I’m not so sure, but it would have been more believable in somewhere like San Francisco or Los Angeles or even Las Vegas.
Reviewer: Zoë Stevenson (10/02/10)
Through the Fire is categorised as a suspense fiction book written by a fire-fighter and paramedic in Reno, Nevada, USA. This is Grady’s debut book but it is a good read.
As I knew very little about fire fighting except for what I had seen on London’s Burning years ago and the film Backdraft, this gave an insight into life in this service albeit the plot dictated some of the more dramatic and fictitious scenes. Even though I enjoyed reading this novel I did get annoyed about that thing that some novelists do – the thesaurus look up – a perfectly good word is substituted for a word that just doesn’t fit or sound right, maybe it is a language thing, American English can sound odd to those of us used to the Queen’s English.
That aside the overall plot was intriguing and entertaining if not so believable at times – like how many times can the fire-fighters be called out in a place like Reno – I’m not so sure, but it would have been more believable in somewhere like San Francisco or Los Angeles or even Las Vegas.
Reviewer: Zoë Stevenson (10/02/10)
