1.01k reviews for:

The Ones We Burn

Rebecca Mix

3.73 AVERAGE

taylormsinclair's review

5.0

adventurous emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

elisask's review

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Too long for one book but the first half is too uninteresting (and somewhat sometimes badly written) to be split into two books
*dropped*

deadr0tten's review

5.0

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book is a very very strong 5/5 for me. Likely even book of the year. The way this book made me feel is indescribable. 

At times i was grinning like a mad man on the bus and other times i was silent screaming. Near the end i was even (lightly) punching my book.

Without getting into spoilers, this book had my attention and heart in a vice fucking grip. At times it broke it only to put ot back together to break it again. Absolutely delightful read.

This is one of those rare books I know I can reread. Hell I'm tempted to reread it as I'm typing this.

I cannot say I've struggled as much as Ranka has in life, but i have had my own struggles and hearing her learning and growing from it hurt and helped me.

I would also like to say thank you for the dedication which almost made me cry in the first 3 minutes of reading the book and the last bit of the gratitudes made me almost bawl on the bus.

I am so touched and I am gonna stop typing now because I'm just gonna ramble.

Good book. 5/5. Will read again.

claudsoz512's review against another edition

2.0

adventurous inspiring medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

3leanor's review

2.0

slow-paced

elmewhy's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous challenging tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

violettfrogs's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Moderate: Emotional abuse

jumping_jerboa's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous emotional reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The last third got super therapy-speak preachy and kinda ruined it for me even tho I'm a huge proponent of therapy and an abuse survivor myself. More that it takes you totally out of the world that was painstakingly built this whole time. 

padds's review

3.25

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

lily47270's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny inspiring tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I need a Percy spin-off duology set before and after that book, centered on the Star Isles. Like. It could be so good !
And that short story with Gallen was just the perfect setup for it.