A review by electricbloomers
Burn by Julianna Baggott

1.0

This is the WORST ending to a book I've ever read, because there is NO ending. About 30 different plot lines that have been built up to the very end are left completely unanswered. I stayed up all night reading this. It started fast paced and I was so excited to find out the ending and find out more about the Cure, Pressia's parents, Willux, The Good Mother's big reveal at the end- all of it just ends abruptly. I am absolutely disgusted by Partridge in this book. And Iralene has my most deepest hatred. Lyda is pregnant with his child and he pretty much abandons her for NO REASON and claims he's in love with Iralene, who we just meet for the first time in this book. SO MUCH CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT FOR NOTHING. I am completely outraged. Baggott just stopped writing. There is NO ENDING. Everything is completely unresolved. Pressia and El Capitan are still wonderful, but I wanted to see them lead the movement with Bradwell in tow. The way Baggott kills him makes absolutely no sense. There is usually a main character death in dystopia and there is usually a reason for it that moves the plot forward, but NOPE. This book made me so angry. Complete and utter waste of time. I should have stopped at the end of book two and just imagined my own ending because it's definitely better than the garbage ending Baggott tries to spit out in the last THREE PAGES when she had 400 pages to wrap up the series and could have done it wonderfully. Awful. Horrible. SO DISAPPOINTED. If there were deadlines, Baggott should have stepped up and said the truth "This book is NOT done." How in the actual fuck can that be the end? I am completely outraged. How am I supposed to block out what I read as a terrible excuse for an ending?