Kelly Ramsey would be a delightful person to spend some time with. Her memoir Wildfire Days is filled with adventure and connection. Ms Ramsey shares stores from her childhood, many a challenge to read, interspersed with the challenges of becoming a Hotshot firefighter in Northern California in 2020. For the majority of the book Ms Ramsey was the only female character, the primary reason I wanted to read the book! She is a strong, tough and brave woman. I found it a challenge to keep up with all the male firefighters, but they weren’t her story. Her story was how hard a woman has to work to make it in a male dominated field. She did that, and she made her hard work into an entertaining book for those of us not capable of keeping up. Thanks to NetGalley for the advance readers copy.

Simply an outstanding memoir that is both timely (as wildfires continue to ravage our country in a scale previously unseen) and timeless (the story of someone finding love and family and her place in this world).