Burning Embers review - written by Hannah Fielding

Attention! This review may contain spoilers that could reveal the story line or events that occur over the duration of the book. If this does not bother you, or if you would just like to get a better feel of what this book is about before you read it, please feel free to carry on and enjoy this review!

I received this book for free as a physical copy, kindly provided to me by the amazing author of the book - Hannah Fielding!
I would just like to quickly thank Hannah for sending me this book, as well keeping me in the loop about all of her other books! It is really great to have such a friendly and positive connection between myself as a book blogger, and Hannah as a published author. 

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Quick overview:

After calling off her wedding and receiving news that her father has passed, Coral leaves her life in England to travel back to her childhood home in Kenya, Africa. In Kenya, Coral takes ownership of her inheritance - the plantation, Mpingo. 

Although, while on the voyage Coral meets a handsome stranger, who she again encounters days later, and he is introduced as Rafe de Monfort. The man who is a known womanizer and her new neighbor who is thought to be involved in her fathers death...  

(Burning Embers by Hannah Fielding)

Read the full summary and check out other books by Hannah Fielding on this Goodreads link.

Personal opinion on the book:

When I first received this book, I kinda expected it to be a sappy romance book, but it turned out to be so much better than that. Yes, it is very different to the type of books that I would normally read, but it was actually really good to read.

From the very first few pages, I was struck by how in-depth the description of every little detail was, up to the point when I was kinda like "damn! this book." 

By page 3 I could already feel myself being drawn into the book's story line, although the book was apparently meant to be set in the 1970's and 1960's, but I honestly couldn't tell the difference in the setting...

Another thing that also sat really well with me was the mention of how it was a struggle for women to break into the 'male dominated workplace,' I just feel really happy that this book brought mention to that as well as having it's most prevalent 'love' story line. 

*For warning for if you read this book (and you really should), by page 9, I was already 'awing' and starting to like that characters. 

Some of the stories that were told within this book are really cool sounding, and I am very interested into finding out if the stories mentioned are actually African tales, or creatively made up. 

All along the time that I was reading this book, there was so much mystery lurking under the surface. I even got to the point where I just wanted to flip to the end of the book and see how it ends!

Onto the characters:

I myself felt as though Coral (who was the main female character) was a highly altering character, at times I found her to be charming, strong and independent, and at other times I thought that she was whiny, childish and kinda stupid. By the end of the book, I felt as if she had made quite a lot of development, which was really quite cool to read.

The main male lead, Rafe, was honestly such an annoying character! At times he was cocky, distant and rude, and at other times he was charming and 'smoldering.' Once again, from the beginning of the book to where it ended, there was quite a lot of character development as well. But I did get the feeling that in a way, he 'tamed' the wild nature of Coral, and personally I found that to be a bit weird. 

The other characters included two females who both loved Rafe, one of these turned out to be quite lovely by the end of the book, and the other was Coral's step-mother. This was quite strange, so this means that Coral ended up with a man 10 years older than her, who had previously had a relationship with her step-mother who was about 10 years younger than her father who died.... 

Kinda sounds like a soap opera! But this all just contributed to how much mystery and how amazing this engaging this story line was! 

This book was actually so engaging and interesting, I really enjoyed the twists and turns! Overall, an absolutely fantastic read! 

Star rating (out of 5):

This book was so amazing because of all the in-depth descriptions which made the book feel so real. I loved all of the mystery and twists, which is why I give this book a 3/5 stars. 

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I am so very happy to announce that with the completion of this book, I have recovered from my book reading slump! This is actually such a great feeling for me! 
I have been having trouble with picking up a book and reading it for the last... 4 months! Which is actually such a long time! And since I finished this book two days ago, I have finished another book as well!
So now I must say a HUGE THANK YOU TO HANNAH FIELDING for getting me out of this book reading slump! But also make sure to keep your eyes wide open and on this blog, to see a few more reviews and random post coming very soon! 

Thank-you for reading this, hope you enjoyed! 

Until next time, keep reading!

-Shelbi (Book Ambrosia)