Consuming Fire by Catherine Fearns REVIEW

 Consuming Fire

by Catherine Fearns

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Synopsis:

What Has Been Seen Cannot Be Unseen.

Liverpool is in the grip of an intense heatwave, and strange things are happening.

A woman dies in an apparent case of Spontaneous Human Combustion; a truck explodes on the dock road; the charred corpses of pets litter the city; forest fires ravage the pinewoods…and there are birds everywhere, silent flocks drawing in ominously.

Detective Inspector Darren Swift thinks there are connections, and his investigation delves into the worlds of football, nightclubs and organised crime. But is he imagining things?

Dr. Helen Hope doesn’t think so. And she believes the key lies in a mysterious seventeenth-century occult book which has gone missing from Liverpool Library.

In the blistering sequel to Reprobation, DI Swift is forced to confront some inconvenient ghosts from his past, as a terrifying shadow lies over his city’s reality….

Purchase Link: mybook.to/consumingfire 

Review:

Thank you to Rachel's Random Resources and Catherine Fearns for a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions expressed in this review are my own.

Consuming Fire is the second book in the Reprobation trilogy. While this book can absolutely be read as a standalone, I do recommend reading the first book just because it's good.

We come back into the lives of Helen and Darren with the main focus being on Darren. This time we get more inside his head and his life as he takes on his strangest case yet.

Once again we are drawn into a situation that makes both rivals and companions out of science and religion. I found Consuming Fire to be quite a bit darker than Reprobation but in a good way. I feel like Fearns took her original idea and brought it to a whole new level. Taking on the darker side of religion, this time we face a fire demon. How to summon him is found in an old text bound in human skin. Can this demon really be summoned, or is someone just really good at science? I won't tell you that but I will tell you I really enjoyed finding out.

Author Bio

Catherine Fearns is a writer from Liverpool. Her novels Reprobation (2018) and Consuming Fire (2019) are published by Crooked Cat and are both Amazon bestsellers. As a music journalist Catherine has written for Pure Grain Audio, Broken Amp and Noisey. Her short fiction and non-fiction have appeared in Toasted Cheese, Succubus, Here Comes Everyone, Off shoots and Metal Music Studies. She lives in Geneva with her husband and four children, and when she’s not writing or parenting, she plays guitar in a heavy metal band.

Social Media Links:
Twitter: @metalmamawrites
Website:https://www.catherine-fearns.com/