A review by abetterjulie
Burning Kingdoms by Lauren DeStefano

2.0

Not as good as the first one, but potentially just suffering from middle child syndrome. It seems to have lost it's soul somewhere. It was repetitive in many ways, Lex and April seemed oddly placed, and Judas made no sense in the grand scheme of it all. I didn't understand Morgan making the choices she did, and there seemed a lot of explaining being done rather than the unfolding that occurred in the first book. Pen's father felt as contrived as Judas. Her mother's alcoholism always struck me as significant enough to explain her behavior. I agreed with Morgan that it seemed impossible that she wouldn't have known. What happened to the Professor? Gosh, the more I discuss it, the more irritated I am. I hope the third book goes back to the lyrical beauty of the first.