"The Ashes of August"

This sounds like a really slacker thing to say, but I'm gonna say it anyway....first off, this story was really long, which did not get me really excited. Second, it was about fires.  That's not very exciting.  I can't say that I liked it.  There wasn't a massive amount of action or anything.  To me, it was just boring.  That's all I really have to say.  It was not the most horrible thing to read, but still it was not fun.  It was just kind of a collection about fire stuff.  Next story??