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A review by shhchar
Burn for Burn by Jenny Han, Siobhan Vivian
3.0
A fun beach read filled with characters that are easy to underestimate. I read this in under a day as the writing is easy and fairly simple.
The meat of this book lies in the unraveling of the plot and the many layers of each character. I hope that the next two books have substantially more on Reeve, as he sparked my interest and curiosity the most. What I also appreciated is that the reader can't immediately tell who's supposed to be whose love interest--they all seem mixed up in one another.
The draw back is that (as I've read novels individually from both authors) you can tell Han's writing apart from Vivian's. I can't be 100% sure, of course, but as I just finished another of Han's books before starting this one, her lyrical and contemporary voice is much more identifiable than Vivian's somewhat simpler one in comparison. As I've noticed in the past, Han has an easier way of structuring complex characters than Vivian does. I found Mary to be extremely stunted while Lillia and Kat were interesting and complex.
Nevertheless, I will continue to read this series!
The meat of this book lies in the unraveling of the plot and the many layers of each character. I hope that the next two books have substantially more on Reeve, as he sparked my interest and curiosity the most. What I also appreciated is that the reader can't immediately tell who's supposed to be whose love interest--they all seem mixed up in one another.
The draw back is that (as I've read novels individually from both authors) you can tell Han's writing apart from Vivian's. I can't be 100% sure, of course, but as I just finished another of Han's books before starting this one, her lyrical and contemporary voice is much more identifiable than Vivian's somewhat simpler one in comparison. As I've noticed in the past, Han has an easier way of structuring complex characters than Vivian does. I found Mary to be extremely stunted while Lillia and Kat were interesting and complex.
Nevertheless, I will continue to read this series!