Review: Flames of Truth (The Lost Fae Series Book 1) by AC Pontone

Flames of Truth by A.C. Pontone
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Interesting Idea But A Bit Clunky In Places

I’d probably give this book 3.5 ⭐️ if I could.

This book had some great ingredients but it seemed to a lack a little on execution.

Emma is 17 years old and holds down two jobs as well as going to school. Her life is hard and unhappy. Her Dad has Parkinson’s and her mother died when she was so little she can’t remember her. In order to keep the family business going Emma works as a mechanic in her father’s garage. In order to make ends meet and pay his medical bills she gets paid under the table working in a nightclub that also expects her to pole dance. She hates this job but it pays well.

At school she is bullied relentlessly by someone who used to be her best friend, who is the daughter of the town’s mayor, so she manages to draw the rest of the school into her bullying. On top of this she has visions of the future that are so debilitating she has nosebleeds. Oh and she’s had a stalker for the last four years, she hasn’t told anyone about.

Into all this unhappiness steps four brothers, two who are her teachers and two who are students and she is drawn to them.

These bones are great and the concept of what the brothers are to Emma is interesting. However, the relationship with the brothers starts out shaky and ends well, but how they transition is done in a very choppy way. One days she resents them, the next everything is fine and there seems to be little to demonstrate how that happens. There is no gradual change in emotions it just happens because ‘magic’.

I really wanted to like this book because it has lots of things I enjoy in it, but there was just something lacking and I can’t put my finger on it, except to say it was clunky and that lack of subtlety annoyed me, because it could have been so much more with a little bit more finesse.

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