If you’re looking for a novel to share with your book club, I’d like to invite you to consider my first novel, Girl on Fire, available through Amazon or your local bookseller.
(Local to Greater Cincinnati? Contact me for an appearance!)
To help get the conversation going, I’m sharing these questions that you can use as a guide:
- What was your favorite part of the book? Least favorite?
- Which characters did you relate to the most?
- How did you feel after reading it? Do you think you’ll remember it in a few months or years?
- The main character steps out of her comfort zone when she learns to eat fire. Where’s the borderline for your comfort zone when it comes to trying something new?
- What new things did you learn from this book?
- Who do you most want to read this book?
- If you could ask the author anything, what would it be?
About “Girl on Fire”
“It’s not a matter of if you’ll get burned—it’s when, and how bad.”
Summer Kayes is used to pain. She lived with it every day during high school, when her peers tormented her. She felt it in the rejection of her dance coach, who made it clear she didn’t fit the beautiful-ballerina mold, and in the blade she pressed to her wrist one fateful night, ready to end it all . . .
Five years older, more grounded, and driven by a desire to feel beautiful, Summer ventures into a piercing parlor and crosses paths with the couple who will change her life: beautiful, bold, confident Rhiannon and relentless flirt Adrian. As the two women become friends, Rhiannon invites Summer into the world of tribal belly dance, an open, accepting community of artists who celebrate and support one another. Summer immerses herself in the culture of the dark and lovely fire arts, where the dance is as dangerous as it is stunning.
Together with Rhiannon, Adrian, and her new tribe mates—brash Morgan, sultry Rosie, and enigmatic Phoenix—Summer forms a fire-performance troupe, and the friends take the Cincinnati underground dance stage by storm. But along with blazes of triumph also come searing hurts, as Summer’s new peace is endangered by temptations and betrayals, and the hatred she endured as a teen casts its shadow over her once again.
Even if all she has built is reduced to ash, can Summer protect the fire within herself?
The overriding theme of “Girl on Fire” is a timeless one of tested and growing friendships and a building of self-confidence that is audacious in the most admirable way, as a troubled girl becomes a confident fire eater who blooms through spinning fire poi, learning tribal belly dance, and more. The extraordinary details will speak strongly to those who are curious about a world they may never have known existed, until now.
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