4.23 AVERAGE

adventurous tense fast-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: Complicated

Me at the end of every Kaufman/Kristoff book: WHAAAAAAATTTTT?!?!?!?!? NOOOOOOOO!!!!! WHAAAAATTTT?!?!?!? Then frantically flipping pages looking for more book.

This review was originally posted on Star Crossed Reviews After re-reading Aurora Rising I jumped straight into Aurora Burning. I love Squad 312. They are a bunch of misfits that wouldn't normally give each other the time of day. Being thrown together the way they were and going through all that they have, have made this squad very special.

One of the characters I was very excited to hear more from and about was Zila. In the first book, Zila has very little to say and she was the one character who's story I thought we needed. Well, Amie and Jay definitely delivered on that one! what a story Zila has. It was absolutely heartbreaking. With Kal's sister showing up we learn a lot about his childhood. We also learn more about the rest of the squad too. We get to learn more about some than others but that was the way with the first book. Each character tells their story at just the right time.

As with the first audiobook, the cast does an amazing job. The characters and voices are just so well matched. If you can listen to the audio of this book because these narrators really bring the story to life!

This book has a lot of mystery in it and I for one cannot wait to explore it even more! The ending was such a big cliffhanger that I am just dying for book 3 now. These two sure know how to break a girl's heart! What makes it worse is knowing that Amie and Jay have already written it and I can't have it yet. I mean I think it's in edits or something but I'd take it if I could!

Really enjoyable - read it because I need to read Book 3 for the PRC Reading list board, and I read Book 1 when it was released, but hadn't got round to Book 2. No way was I going to read Bk3 without this one! The cast of characters in this series is fantastic, and the humour throughout is great.
adventurous medium-paced
adventurous challenging emotional funny 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

Really enjoying this series can't wait to read the last book!
adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This book...I have no words how amazing this and the first book are. I will attempt to express how I feel.

The first book introduced us to this beautiful Squad 312, these misfits, and how different and yet similar they are. They learned how well they could work together and be a team.

This second book just expounded on this team and how well they could work together to accomplish this huge feat they are trying to accomplish. Suffice it to say, when I finished this second book, I became emotionally compromised.

4,25 ⭐
adventurous emotional funny hopeful tense fast-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: Complicated