Like
Billy Dean before it,
Fire in the Dark doesn't stray from the pattern
Dean established on
Young Man, which might not necessarily be a bad thing. However, there is the problem of diminishing returns -- each time he goes back to the well, he's coming back with a lesser number of first-rate songs. There are highlights on
Fire in the Dark, but nothing on the album represents a progress from his first two albums. ~ Thom Owens