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A review by wishfulfillment
Burn for Burn by Jenny Han, Siobhan Vivian
4.0
2019 re-read: 4 stars. This was not nearly as terrible as I remembered it being. I didn't perceive the rape to be used as a plot device necessarily. The trauma responses were not inaccurate, though they were dramatized. The protagonists respond to Mary's bullying history appropriately but the authors definitely did not put in the time to challenge fat phobia. The authors were able to make the backstories believable while at the same time focusing primarily on the present. The characters are extremely believable as teenagers. There are less than a dozen harmful comments scattered throughout the book, but overall it was a fun revenge story that kept me invested from start to finish. I will be moving on to the next book immediately.
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2017 review summarized: I gave the work 4 stars at first because of how entertaining it was, how invested I was in the protagonists and their dynamics, and how believably the subplots developed. Then I thought about the content (suicide, bullying, rape, mental/emotional mind games, betrayal, unchallenged fat phobia, disordered eating, trauma responses) and lowered my rating to 1.5. I said I enjoyed it and would continue the series, but wouldn't recommend it.
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2017 review summarized: I gave the work 4 stars at first because of how entertaining it was, how invested I was in the protagonists and their dynamics, and how believably the subplots developed. Then I thought about the content (suicide, bullying, rape, mental/emotional mind games, betrayal, unchallenged fat phobia, disordered eating, trauma responses) and lowered my rating to 1.5. I said I enjoyed it and would continue the series, but wouldn't recommend it.