hollymbryan 's review for:

Burn for Burn by Jenny Han, Siobhan Vivian

4.0

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I read this book (in one day!) free online thanks to Pulseit.com. I really enjoyed it! I'd actually say my rating was a 3.5, but I always round up when I can't give a half-star rating. I thought the authors did a great job making Mary, Lillia, and Kat into very different personalities, such that it was easy to recognize who was narrating any given chapter even without looking at the name at the top. Kat was definitely my favorite character, and certainly the one I most identified with. I also thought the authors did a fabulous job of making the "bad guys/girls" distasteful, awful people, *and yet*....leaving just enough room for a teensy amount of pity (or slightly more, in one case) to slip into my feelings about them! In other words, they weren't caricatures or stereotypes of villains, with no redeeming qualities whatsoever; they were complicated people (like real people!), and I found myself always wondering if we were getting the full measure of them through the three narrators' stories.

I find myself eagerly awaiting the chance to read FIRE WITH FIRE, and I will definitely be picking it up to find out what's going to happen after THAT ENDING!!! GAH!! I'm looking forward to spending more time with all the folks on Jar Island! :-)