This year has been a stellar one for manga aimed at adult women. Not all of them are strictly josei, but the variety and amount out there is proof the the Josei Reinaissance is still alive and well. Today's review is the rare printed example of the smuttier side of josei. Is it as burning hot as the title implies or merely a damp squib?
FIRE IN HIS FINGERTIPS: A FLIRTY FIREMAN RAVISHES ME WITH HIS SMOLDERING GAZE (Yubisaki kara Honki no Netsujo: Chara Otoko Shobashi wa Massugu na Me de Watashi o Daita), by Kawano Tanishi. First published in 2018 and first published in North America in 2020.
PLOT:
Ryo is a capable young woman, but her life is thrown into chaos when her apartment building is destroyed in a fire. Her only option for housing for the moment is to temporarily move in with Souma, an old friend and one of the firefighters who saved her. Soon enough the two start having sex, but Souma can't figure out how to get his non-horny feelings through to her. Meanwhile, Ryo is conflicted between her growing lust for him and her desire to be more than just one of Souma's many easy lays.
