A review by spencerfantastic
Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado

3.0

Like many other reviewers have said, the concept of this book is good but the execution was not done as well. It is advertised as being a book featuring a 'game' that young Black people were being abducted into...just for there to not be a game at all. I kept expecting the MC to be abducted into a Battle Royal type situation, just to find that this 'game' is actually just an internet challenge. Not only that but the rules were very confusing (characters would break the rules with no consequences even though others were punished for breaking them). I liked the parallels between this book and Stranger Things but I also think it could have been done a little bit better. The MC was okay, there were times when I wasn't really a fan of hers. I can see how other people would really like this book even though it wasn't a favorite of mine.