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danalex175 's review for:
The Ones We Burn
by Rebecca Mix
This book had some very high highs, and some very low lows for me. Here and there there are passages that are redundant, feeling like the the author is trying to rephrase something that has already been said to try and force "beautiful moments". The plot is often convoluted with characters missing obvious things or creating conflict where there is none. This book has two big twists, the first with the Skra manages to feel both predictable for those characters and completely out of place in the over all plot at the same time. The second with Foldrey makes a lot more sense and is a much much better twists, however his ultimate ending is unsatisfying. The epilogue is perfect. There are moments throughout that truly made me smile, I'm a sucker for romance. The enemies to lovers subplot is overall well executed, minus when Ranka is forced to choose a side at the climax. This book tries to deal with topics like trauma, trust, found-family, and manipulative relationship, and while I admire the attempt and think some moments are quite strong, overall these issues come across very basically and with varying degrees of success. Ranka feels unfinished at times because of this. The fight scenes are good.