A review by alli_thebookgiraffe
Incendiary by Chris Cleave

5.0

I am so happy I decided to re-read this book. There are so many important topics brought up in this book. The most obvious one being terrorism. It talks about infidelity and jealousy. I think mental health is a big topic both before and after the attack. Also, I love the story including prejudice against Muslims after a terrorist attack. I think it is important to bring such an important topic and show different characters with different opinions because the world is that way. This book is set in London. Since reading this book the first time, I have changed my opinion on unlikeable characters. Too often do we watch and read tragic stories happen to good characters, sometimes bad things happen to people who don’t make good decisions. Most people are not inherently good or evil and most tragedies happen at random. I am surprised to find that this was Cleave’s debut novel and he wrote it in 6 weeks. Wonderful writing and a wonderful story.