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Burned
by Karen Marie Moning
So I'm not gonna lie, I didn't think that KMM would actually take a scene from the books that every reader already knows. I thought we'd get a 'deleted scene' kind of story. So yeah I was a little disappointed with that but then again it's a scene from Barrons POV! It's amazing. I loved it!! Barrons is the best arrogant bastard I've ever come to love!
Merged review:
I can't even begin to say how sad I was after I finished Burned. It's as if all of KMMs muse, her passion has been drained and we were left with a shell of what used to be the fever series. At first I thought the 2 year wait would produce something epic, something amazing as KMMs books usually are but now I feel as if KMM needed this time to put a story to paper she never really wanted to write.
The first hint at this is in the very beginning: every one who is/was obsessed with Barrons recognized the beginning of this book - it was word by word copied from the Alpha Alternative. The one and only scene we ever got from Barrons POV and as many of us were waiting, finally a sex scene between the two of them. But here's the thing: this was supposed to be just a little treat for fans, something to stir our fantasies. It bugged me to find it here in the beginning and as something that really had happened. It felt as if she went back and changed the entire beginning of my all time favorite series.
When I heard that Mac and Barrons would be the leading characters again, I was disappointed. Their story was done. I think all Fever fans can agree that it had a perfect ending. I think she managed it amazingly in Iced, Mac and Barrons are still there, still going strong but the story is about Dani.
I was one of the many many people who had an issue with Dani's age - putting a 13 year old next to sex obsessed inhuman beasts was..... strange. But it was HER story and I had faith that KMM would make all my doubts and struggles disappear with Burned. But sadly she didn't.
Mac is no longer the stong, kick-ass girl she was before. She's only a weak, yammering character who has lost her spark. It was painful to read.
Barrons was still a domineering ass, but he lost his charms.
Ryodan had his good moments, but the all knowing, witty, self confident "man" was turned too human. With his jealousy over Lor and Jo and his sudden loving memories of Dani as a kid.
Dani was completely ruined. She's not even Dani for most of the story. In the first chapter, she is Dani. Then she disappears for most parts and towards the end she reappears as Jada. SHe's now 20, because of the SIlvers apparently... How convenient! She's a split personality - something that has never ever been mentioned, not even hinted at before. It completely destroyed her character.
Lor was great - I imensely enjoyed the scenes he was in - but the he had to go and get all mushy feelings over Dani's childhood too.
And what's up with Kat and Kasteo`?? I mean seriously, is this the continuation of the Fever series or "let's find those hunky beast a woman, preferrably a sidhe seer"???????
So by now we've got Mac and Barrons, Ryo and Dani, Lor and Jo and Kasteo and Kat. Who's next? Fade??
I do have to mention little things I loved though - I immensely enjoyed the parts when Mac was invisible and eaves dropped on Barrons/Ry/Lor. FInding out that Ry and Barrons are really brothers, hearing Barrons lamenting his son, it gave us all little inside to the mysterious world of the Nine.
I enjoyoed MAc's and Ry's bickering - knowing that Barrons and Ry are brothers made it almost a bickering betwee in laws and that was funny.
So in short it can be said that this story is not the continuation of a series so many people fell in love with. It's a documentation of the quick fall. It's a collection of too many POVs in one book. It's a sad reminder of how great these characters used to be and how dramatically they have changed. I think for me, the Fever series ended with Shadowfever. Iced was the beginning of a new series that could have been great but KMM caved under pressure. Or lost her own passion about it. Burned is torn between Fever and Iced, doesn't really belong anywhere and left me disappointed.
Merged review:
I can't even begin to say how sad I was after I finished Burned. It's as if all of KMMs muse, her passion has been drained and we were left with a shell of what used to be the fever series. At first I thought the 2 year wait would produce something epic, something amazing as KMMs books usually are but now I feel as if KMM needed this time to put a story to paper she never really wanted to write.
The first hint at this is in the very beginning: every one who is/was obsessed with Barrons recognized the beginning of this book - it was word by word copied from the Alpha Alternative. The one and only scene we ever got from Barrons POV and as many of us were waiting, finally a sex scene between the two of them. But here's the thing: this was supposed to be just a little treat for fans, something to stir our fantasies. It bugged me to find it here in the beginning and as something that really had happened. It felt as if she went back and changed the entire beginning of my all time favorite series.
When I heard that Mac and Barrons would be the leading characters again, I was disappointed. Their story was done. I think all Fever fans can agree that it had a perfect ending. I think she managed it amazingly in Iced, Mac and Barrons are still there, still going strong but the story is about Dani.
I was one of the many many people who had an issue with Dani's age - putting a 13 year old next to sex obsessed inhuman beasts was..... strange. But it was HER story and I had faith that KMM would make all my doubts and struggles disappear with Burned. But sadly she didn't.
Mac is no longer the stong, kick-ass girl she was before. She's only a weak, yammering character who has lost her spark. It was painful to read.
Barrons was still a domineering ass, but he lost his charms.
Ryodan had his good moments, but the all knowing, witty, self confident "man" was turned too human. With his jealousy over Lor and Jo and his sudden loving memories of Dani as a kid.
Dani was completely ruined. She's not even Dani for most of the story. In the first chapter, she is Dani. Then she disappears for most parts and towards the end she reappears as Jada. SHe's now 20, because of the SIlvers apparently... How convenient! She's a split personality - something that has never ever been mentioned, not even hinted at before. It completely destroyed her character.
Lor was great - I imensely enjoyed the scenes he was in - but the he had to go and get all mushy feelings over Dani's childhood too.
And what's up with Kat and Kasteo`?? I mean seriously, is this the continuation of the Fever series or "let's find those hunky beast a woman, preferrably a sidhe seer"???????
So by now we've got Mac and Barrons, Ryo and Dani, Lor and Jo and Kasteo and Kat. Who's next? Fade??
I do have to mention little things I loved though - I immensely enjoyed the parts when Mac was invisible and eaves dropped on Barrons/Ry/Lor. FInding out that Ry and Barrons are really brothers, hearing Barrons lamenting his son, it gave us all little inside to the mysterious world of the Nine.
I enjoyoed MAc's and Ry's bickering - knowing that Barrons and Ry are brothers made it almost a bickering betwee in laws and that was funny.
So in short it can be said that this story is not the continuation of a series so many people fell in love with. It's a documentation of the quick fall. It's a collection of too many POVs in one book. It's a sad reminder of how great these characters used to be and how dramatically they have changed. I think for me, the Fever series ended with Shadowfever. Iced was the beginning of a new series that could have been great but KMM caved under pressure. Or lost her own passion about it. Burned is torn between Fever and Iced, doesn't really belong anywhere and left me disappointed.