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A review by carringtonshaw
Burn for Burn by Jenny Han, Siobhan Vivian
dark
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
This took me a little while to get into, but once I did, I could not put it down! This is not my typical genre, but I'm giving it a shot. Once I was able to get past my snobby mental block of 'This is for teenagers and it is too far below your reading level', it just turned into a serious guilty pleasure! Who doesn't love a good underdog revenge story? And I loved watching the three main characters gradually become friends. It even had hints of some paranormal stuff going on, so that was fun.
I liked that the girls were all very distinct from one another. Too often that ends up not being the case in books with multiple perspectives.
Without giving too much away...at one point there is an attempted suicide mentioned. And then at another point, a character is at someone's house knocking on the door, and there's the briefest little horror-movie-style scene that gave me some serious chills for some reason. I'm probably way off here, but my prediction is that the forementioned attempted suicide was a little less "attempted" and a little more "succeeded" and that that explains the paranormal stuff. I don't know. Again, probably way off, but I'm going to at least read the second book and probably the third if that one doesn't let me down, so I guess I'll find out!
Also random: I'm currently watching The Vampire Diaries, and it was impossible for me not to picture Reeve as Michael Trevino and Alex as Zach Roerig. The girls were just the ones from the book cover. (I think maybe the Kat on the cover is Ashley Benson? If not, that's still who she is in my head.)
I liked that the girls were all very distinct from one another. Too often that ends up not being the case in books with multiple perspectives.
Without giving too much away...at one point there is an attempted suicide mentioned. And then at another point, a character is at someone's house knocking on the door, and there's the briefest little horror-movie-style scene that gave me some serious chills for some reason. I'm probably way off here, but my prediction is that the forementioned attempted suicide was a little less "attempted" and a little more "succeeded" and that that explains the paranormal stuff. I don't know. Again, probably way off, but I'm going to at least read the second book and probably the third if that one doesn't let me down, so I guess I'll find out!
Also random: I'm currently watching The Vampire Diaries, and it was impossible for me not to picture Reeve as Michael Trevino and Alex as Zach Roerig. The girls were just the ones from the book cover. (I think maybe the Kat on the cover is Ashley Benson? If not, that's still who she is in my head.)