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Burn for Burn by Jenny Han, Siobhan Vivian
4.0
Mini review! 3 1/2 stars.
Three girls take karma in their own hands. This is a very straight forward revenge story that I enjoyed much more than expected. It's the type of book where the flaws are obvious but you can ignore them because the pacing doesn't let you catch a breath. Before you know it, 400 pages have flown by and you can't remember many details, other than that it was awesome. There were many things that should have bothered me about this book, if it wasn't so entertaining.
The teenagers were the classic clichés, and all fall into the classic social groups. The jocks, the popular kids, the social outcasts etc. It's basically everything you’d expect at an American high school, and given how often this theme comes up in books and movies, I'm starting to wonder if it's actually true to real life or just a trope. For some reason it works, because our characters may are not entire cardboard cutouts, and actually have valid reasons for getting back at the people who have hurt them. All three main characters had a distinct voice and were surprisingly understandable.
The best thing about this book is without a doubt how addictive it is. Someone might as well have sprinkled drugs between the pages, I kid you not. I was surprised by how invested I was in the characters and couldn't wait to see how they would take their revenge. I can't wait to read the next one!
Side note: This book reminds me so much of Bad Blood by Taylor Swift.
1. Because Taylor Swift is an icon.
2. The revenge theme.
3. The music video is just as exciting as this book and has tons of badass ladies killin' it. YES.
Three girls take karma in their own hands. This is a very straight forward revenge story that I enjoyed much more than expected. It's the type of book where the flaws are obvious but you can ignore them because the pacing doesn't let you catch a breath. Before you know it, 400 pages have flown by and you can't remember many details, other than that it was awesome. There were many things that should have bothered me about this book, if it wasn't so entertaining.
The teenagers were the classic clichés, and all fall into the classic social groups. The jocks, the popular kids, the social outcasts etc. It's basically everything you’d expect at an American high school, and given how often this theme comes up in books and movies, I'm starting to wonder if it's actually true to real life or just a trope. For some reason it works, because our characters may are not entire cardboard cutouts, and actually have valid reasons for getting back at the people who have hurt them. All three main characters had a distinct voice and were surprisingly understandable.
The best thing about this book is without a doubt how addictive it is. Someone might as well have sprinkled drugs between the pages, I kid you not. I was surprised by how invested I was in the characters and couldn't wait to see how they would take their revenge. I can't wait to read the next one!
Side note: This book reminds me so much of Bad Blood by Taylor Swift.
1. Because Taylor Swift is an icon.
2. The revenge theme.
3. The music video is just as exciting as this book and has tons of badass ladies killin' it. YES.