Fireman Who Loved Me by Jennifer Bernard

Title:  Fireman Who Loved Me
Author:  Jennifer Bernard
Grade:  C-
Description from Amazon:  Fearless, smoking hot, and single: meet the Bachelor Firemen of San Gabriel. These firemen might be heroes, but it's their bad luck in love that makes them legendary. 
News producer Melissa McGuire and Fire Captain Harry Brody couldn't be more different, though they do have one thing in common: they're both convinced they're perfectly wrong for each other. But when Melissa's matchmaking grandmother wins her a date with Brody at a Bachelor auction . . . Sparks fly. Passion flares. Heat rises. (You get the picture.) Add a curse, a conniving nightly news anchor, a stunningly handsome daredevil fireman, a brave little boy, a couple of exes, and one giant fire to the mix, and Melissa and Brody's love may not be the only thing that burns.

Review:  I read a review of this book on a library blog.  The reviewer indicated that they had received exactly what they were looking for with this book, " ... interesting characters, contemporary setting, resolved conflicts.  Like I said, an enjoyable afternoon of reading."  Unfortunately, I stupidly wasn't looking for those same things when I read it.  I found the characters kind of trite.  The hero was a buff, intelligent hero-like fire captain who had a heart of gold.  The heroine was feisty, wounded and too intelligent and perky for words.  I got the contemporary setting.  I agree it was contemporary.  But the conflicts were either too easily or too quickly fixed as if the beginning of the book was a marathon and the end was a sprint.  I just got to page 211...I need to finish RIGHT now...bam, bam, bam!  It was only $.99.  But I won't be reading any of the other stories in the Bachelor Firemen of San Gabriel series.  Sorry.