Burn for Burn (The Burn for Burn Trilogy) Paperback – August 6, 2013

First of all, I think Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian are the greatest people ever. Basically, I love their individual novels, their writing styles, their total awesomeness... So when I heard they were collaborating on a new trilogy, shit hit the fan. By that I mean, I was totally psyched. And it was like a dream. But the book, it was better than anything I could dream up!I love the characters, Lillia and Mary and Kat. I think each of them were amazingly well developed. And what I loved most was their friendship! They are all very different from one another with one common goal, to get revenge. They have this weird, quirky forever kind of frienship. Or maybe that is my own wishful thinking, but whatever. I love them. Lillia is a princess, but humble and kind. Sort of a goody toe shoe kind of girl. Mary is hard to describe. She is different and fierce yet shy and sweet. And Kat (LOVE HER) is boisterous and loud and tough. Basically, she is totally bad ass and awesome. Well, they all are in their own ways!It's not just the three main characters I love either, it is all the little one two. Alex, Nadia, Reeve and even Rennie. Despite the fact that some of these characters are grade A d-bags, I feel that there is more to them. Although Reeve did all these horrible, inexcusably terrible things, I still think he isn't necessarily the "bad" guy. Like there is some hidden lame story behind the act, you know? Maybe not, again, wishful thinking. Rennie, though, she is like Regina George for Mean Girls. You hate her, hate her hate her, but you still think she isn't completely evil either.I feel I am saying LOVE way too much, but I love how everything plays out. Some of the revenge plots aren't so bad, funny even. And it is fun to read them go about it all. The secret meetings and everything. But then somewhere along the line things go out of sorts, not everything goes as perfectly planned. The ending is literally the worst EVER! ..... because you have to wait for the next book. TORTURE I TELL YOU. But I'll deal, by reading it over and over again!Anyway, I know there are a lot of mixed reviews about this book (I KNOW, totally weird to me too!), but give it a try! Everyone has different opinions and you may just think it is THE BEST THING EVER, like me!:)

Burn for Burn was a fantastic read. It is full of realistic high school drama with a splash of supernatural that easily sucked me in after only reading a few pages. I constantly had a feeling of needing to know what happened next. If you think that Burn for Burn might be a predictable contemporary YA, trust me when I say you have no idea what this book has up its book sleeve.Jar Island was a beautifully breath-taking unique setting. How freaking cool would it be to live on an island? I imagine maybe being a townie might get boring because you grow up around the same people, but I am sure it is not hard to stir up trouble and Burn for Burn shows that.Mary was a bit of an oddball character and I wish that she had a bigger part of the story. I kind of understand how they might have down played her character for a reason though. I will admit it kind of drove me cuckoo how obsessed she was about this person that had bullied her. For a character like Mary I would have hoped she could healthily move on in life and show that you can survive through anything. What happened to Mary was awful and unacceptable. For a person to do that to someone was a terrible thing to read about. Overall I liked her and look forward hopefully to seeing her character grow.I freaking loved Kat, seriously I think she is one of my favorite characters. Some of her scenes were just so kick ass with this whole take no prisoners vibe to it. She had a vulnerable side and that was nice to see, though even if it wasn't shown I would have still loved her. I think how mushy she got over a certain guy was unrealistic for Kat though. Kat just doesn't seem like the type to fret over some guy, but all the fun revenge stuff made up for it.I am not really sure how I feel about Lillia. She seemed like a very relatable character and someone you want to like. The same thing I said with Mary I will say about Lillia, what happened to her was a terrible travesty to have done to a young woman. I am uncertain though if I understand her reaction to it all. Maybe it truly didn't sink in what happened but she seemed worried one second and the next off doing something else like nothing happened. Lillia choice in friends is not the best, but I believe she was more than capable of stepping away from that group and she didn't do that.I don't know if I should love or hate Alex. I can't tell if his intentions are true or he is just really good at lying. The things that happened to him though are completely hilarious and I didn't feel bad for him at all. All I have to say about Rennie is it's a long fall off that pedestal sweetheart. The revenge was a superb part of Burn for Burn. Some of it was laughable because to an adult it just seems so petty. As I think back to my own high school experience though, I really did start to understand why they were doing what they did.I want to talk about the ending now. I think I should just rip off the band aid and say my true feelings. The ending was a cheesy Carrie rip off. *Cringes* Do you know how hard that is to say about a book I really do love. It all just happens so fast and there wasn't much build up to the supernatural part of this book. The whole time the supernatural part was happening I was confused as to what was going on. There were tiny freak accidents but honestly it was just something I had looked over. I wish a little more had been explained, but I think the readers are left with a wanting for a reason. It does however have me completely curious about what will happen in the next book. Maybe this means we will finally see more of an improved Mary. I think this series will keep getting better and better. I look forward to reading Fire with Fire and finding out what happens next with Mary, Lillia, and Kat.

Definitely a good read!

i liked how jenny ham changed her style in writing a bit with this book… this book was a bit slow in the beginning but if u give i like 5 min it gets really good… okay my only problem was i wws very confused with the characters it took me til page 138 to figure our who mary was in the book cover and i was always very confused.… but otherwise the content and beautifully and emotionally written words were very powerful and heart touchibg making me realize what type of people are really out there as in bullies making fat kids feel bad about themselves... im a 12 year old girl and heah i struggle with fjnding appropriate content for my age, but i will say that readers should be a bit older fkr this book like 12-17 id say because !!!!!!SPOILERS!!!!!!!! dont read on people if u havent read this yet… anyways there was slipping drugs ijve never heard of in peoples drinks, which could cause bad influence on kids, there is a lot of alchohal involved, which kids shouldnt read about because it couod iinfluence them to do it in hs, and lastly there was a bunch of smoking weed and stuff on some of the characters parts, with of course bit of tramatizing actions like hangiing ur self… abways it was a great book but i would suggest as a kid that u should be waiting till ur at least eleven or twelve to read this series… but si far i love this series so much! i fel aslepp last night at 150 am finishing this book! it was magnificent! ps srry for the bad spelling the kindle sometimes messes up with typing