Fire Works in the Hamptons
A Willow Tate Series, No 3
Celia Jerome

Daw Books Inc.
2011 / ISBN 978-0756406882
Contemporary Paranormal Fantasy
Amazon

Reviewed by Carmen Ferreiro

Even in the town of Paumanok Harbor where half the population has some kind of paranormal gift, Willow Tate is considered weird. She is the only one, ever, able to summon, see, and communicate with beings from other dimensions. That’s why when a cloud of fireflies appear over the town as the citizens watch the fourth of July fireworks, they blame Willow for their presence and demand she sends them back.

Willow is not sure she’s responsible for the bugs arrival, and has no idea of how to send them back. She knows, however, these are not fireflies, for she sees them as they really are, beautiful and strange and certainly not of this world. While Willow tries and fails to communicate with them, unexplained fires break out in the county. The fires are caused by the angry bugs, she has no doubt, and the pressure on her to solve the problem increases; even more so, when she realizes that someone is using the fireflies for his own purpose.

The premise of the story is intriguing enough, and the characters only add to the enjoyment. Besides Willow’s eccentric family and the quirky town inhabitants, we have the journalist pursuing Willow with the intent of discovering the reason behind the mysterious events, the Science teacher who doesn’t think twice about breaking the law and risking his students’ lives for a chance to be the first to study the new species, the baby who throws fire when she cries and the fire fighter who Willow likes more than she dares to admit.

Fire Works in the Hamptons, the third Willow Tate novel, is a light paranormal adventure, that will keep you happily reading and smiling to its end.

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