Fire Works in the Hamptons

September 5, 2011
Hamptons resident Jerome (a pseudonym for romance author Barbara Metzger) keeps things close to home in her low-key third Willow Tate urban fantasy (after May 2011’s Night Mares in the Hamptons). This time around, affably self-absorbed graphic novelist and Visualizer Tate accidentally unleashes a horde of extradimensional lightning bugs on the sleepy town of Paumanok Harbor. Unfortunately, these fireflies start fires, which brings a slew of problems to Willow’s door. After the first mishap, Willow mostly stands around while things happen to her: her angry neighbors worry about Paumanok being outed as a town of psychics; a hunky fireman who extinguishes flames with his mind offers to warm her bed; and a fire-breathing baby gets dropped in her lap. Some nice plot twists and turns do little to make up for the passive protagonist, confusing action sequences, and anticlimactic ending.

September 15, 2011

Graphic artist Willow Tate's creative ideas have a habit of attracting magical creatures to the unusual town of Paumanok Harbor in the Hamptons. The third outing, following Trolls in the Hamptons and Night Mares in the Hamptons, features literal fireflies, a fire-breathing tot, a fire mage, and an all-too-ordinary arsonist.

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