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Smoke Show: An Opposites Attract Romance (Campfire Council) Paperback – July 14, 2023

by Amelia Simone (Author)
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
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Kissing your co-director is a sure way to fan the flames of gossip…

Eve Pendleton moved to Campfire for a fresh start. She's agreed to help the town council with their bachelor charity auction, but hosting it at the high school is a no-go unless she agrees to co-direct the winter play with the principal. Brady Gleason is handsome, but awfully strait-laced for Eve's tastes. Besides, her fresh start didn't include plans for a new man… Can she make room in her heart and her new life for a man whose icy exterior hides a flame only she can quench?

Brady Gleason can’t stop thinking about Eve. Loud, chronically late, and generally a thorn in his side, she gets on his nerves—but her prickliness conceals a pain he can’t help but try to soothe. He’s learned the hard way that risk means loss. Can Eve encourage him to open his heart one last time if it means finding love?

Eve and Brady are both skeptical about happily-ever-afters. Will their budding romantic production be a one-night flop, or have they found the roles of a lifetime together?

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Smoke Show is book two in the Campfire Council Series but can be read as a stand-alone romance. The newly elected city council of Campfire, WA, is ready to win hearts and rebuild their small town, but can this sisterhood of the wine-soaked campfire find love amid the flames?
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    Campfire Council
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    175 pages
  3. Language
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  4. Publication date
    July 14, 2023
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    5.5 x 0.44 x 8.5 inches
  6. ISBN-13
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0C9SBP1B2
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (July 14, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 175 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8851951114
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.1 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.44 x 8.5 inches
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Amelia Simone

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Amelia Simone is the author of flirty, fun romances set in the Pacific Northwest, including Forbidden Flame (Book 1 of the Campfire Council Series), Formula for Love (Book 1 of the Excelling @ Love Series), and Mister Romance (Book 1 of the Self-Made Series.)

On sunny days, you can find her lounging on her deck, sipping coffee and working on her latest book. She specializes in writing lighthearted, hopeful romances that feature relatable, everyday characters who are looking for love. She's a firm believer in writing dessert books with plenty of sweet, flirty banter and teasing. Her goal is to deliver stories that give you a serotonin boost and leave you with a smile.

When she's not writing, she's wrangling her kiddos, indulging in food and wine adventures with her better half, or out back trying to revive her garden. (Hey, sometimes things die, it's fine.)

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Pamela Carey
5.0 out of 5 stars Feeling good
Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2023
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The story is fun and cute all the way until the end. Will keep you smiling. No dramatic break up and then get back together. Just a feel good read from beginning to end. Explicit sex and mature language.
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Angela
5.0 out of 5 stars The New Girl
Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2023
Eve comes off as the goth girl with her dark looks, but if you could see inside, you'd see she's hiding something. Which is why she moved and is a newcomer to Campfire, but she found a great group of friends and is helping them to revive Campfire by helping with the Winter Warmth Auction. To be able to host it at the high school, Eve had to agree to help principal Gleason (Brady) with the winter musical. Brady is a pain in Eve's side since they don't seem to see eye to eye on this and hate each other. Although, there is a thin line between love and hate and the more time they spend together working on the play, the more they realize they don't hate each other. The closer it gets to the auction, the Campfire council hopes they have everything ready for it to go without a hitch, but will it? And when Eve's past comes back to haunt her, will she be able to stay or will she be on the run again?

I loved this book. It pulled me into the life of Campfire so much that I figured I must have missed a book (which I had) that I immediately bought and devoured. Can't wait for this series to continue. I received a copy of this book and am voluntarily providing my review.
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Sara B.
4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good read
Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2023
This book can be read as a stand-alone book because the author does a good job referencing events that took place in the first book or character connections sufficiently to give a new reader a frame of reference or explanation to minimize confusion. However, I would still strongly encourage starting with Forbidden Flame to get the full context of some of the more nuanced comments.

Unfortunately, it took me much longer to get into the storyline with this book than it typically does because neither of the two main characters really appealed to me initially. This was like eating your vegetables so you can enjoy a tasty dessert. I was really intrigued by some of the potential character match ups that will be later books in this series, so I forced myself to read this book. While I wasn’t excited about this book, having finished it I can honestly say it was a pretty good read. It’s closer to a 3.5 rating, but the series as a whole is engaging and very entertaining.

My frustration with the book for about the first 35% is Brady comes across as a straight laced jerk. He’s all over admonishing Eve for being tardy to the high school play practices he strong armed her into helping with in book 1 so her friends could host a charity event in the high school gym. She is a self employed tattoo artist and is closing her business early several nights a week to VOLUNTEER and help him out without him ever expressing his appreciation. Mr. Principal needs to get over himself.

Another frustration is how the author kept hinting at major life changing events in each of Brady and Eve’s pasts that neither of them have worked through. Keeping the details secret and slowly sharing them as the characters mentally ruminate about those events is irksome and distracting. I’d rather be given a better idea of the event or situation to better understand why the character has emotional hangups or triggers that still impact them.

In this case, once you learn what happened in Brady’s past it’s really weird that not one person in the small town where everyone is in everyone’s business never mentioned what happened to him. Eve’s past event, while horribly painful and embarrassing, wasn’t her fault and she was the victim of a slimy individual.

The relationship between Brady and Eve grows slowly (they go on a few dates before things get spicy). Once they get past the snarky banter and become more flirtatious the reading experience drastically improves, but those first chapters of awkwardness and unintentional hurt feelings were a bit painful to get through.

I most enjoy the camaraderie between the group of ladies and the group of guys. I love the interplay and foreshadowing of future pairings and the continued mystery of who is sabotaging the council’s events. The sign battle between Gwen and Zander is awesome. I’m really looking forward to their book later in the series!!

I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
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Jaeloe
3.0 out of 5 stars Meh. Dialogue not great.
Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2023
I didn't read the first book in the Campfire Council series, but this book stands on its own fairly well. There are some allusions to events and relationships from the previous book in the series, but nothing that is not sufficiently fleshed out or explained in this, the second book in the series.

The premise is that the main character leaves her previous life for ~reasons~ and reinvents herself in a small town, becoming a self-employed artist and tattooist. She is asked by the town council to work with the stuffy principal of the high school on a couple of special projects. From there, it's pretty much a classic opposites attract/enemies-to-lovers tale.

I thought it was an interesting plot, but the dialogue - especially between the Hero and heroine - was a little clunky. It didn't seem like it was natural/flowed organically in some places, especially in the more intimate scenes. And despite there being some interesting twists to a familiar plot, the story as a whole was fairly predictable.

There is no profanity beyond the very occasional "hell" or "damn," and the intimate scenes are about a medium on a scale of mild/implied to very hot/explicit.

This book was OK. Not bad, not great - just "meh." I rate each of the aspects of this book as follows:

Hero - 3/5 stars

heroine - 3/5 stars

Supporting characters - 3/5 stars

Plot - 3/5 stars

Pacing - 2/5 stars

World-building - 3/5 stars

Romance - 2/5 stars

Sex scenes - 3/5 stars

AVERAGE GRADE: 2.75, rounded up to 3

I would read other books in the Campfire series if I had them, but I would not want to pay full price to do so.

I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
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