Burn

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Disclosure: I received a review copy of Burn from HarperCollins Publishers, the publisher, in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

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This is a cat and mouse chase like no other. Who has been misled and who is really trying to stop a war whether that be between men or men and dragons? On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957, Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he’d hired to help on the farm… As much as I enjoyed reading how the story unfolded during the first half of Burn, after some time I felt like things were beginning to drag on. In part, that stemmed from the choice to present Burn from multiple perspectives; too many perspectives, in my opinion. Frequently jumping around between scenes became quite jarring. I’d be so invested in learning what would happen next with Sarah, that I almost groaned whenever a new character was introduced. Sarah is a sweet young girl who has been brought up by her father alone on their farm since their mother died. To keep the farm and pay off the debts her father needs a bumper crop and harvest and to be able to afford this he hires a dragon.Sarah Dewhurst and her father, outcasts in their little town of Frome, Washington, are forced to hire a dragon to work their farm, something only the poorest of the poor ever have to resort to. You just got days, it seemed to her. Where stuff happened or it didn't. Where planning just showed you what a fool you were to think you had any say over what your life would be.” This dragon, Kazimir, has more to him than meets the eye. Sarah can’t help but be curious about him, an animal who supposedly doesn’t have a soul but is seemingly intent on keeping her safe from the brutal attentions of Deputy Sheriff Emmett Kelby.

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An award-winning novelist, has written for England’s Radio 4 and Sunday Telegraph and is a literary critic for The Guardian. He has written many books, including the Chaos Walking Trilogy, The Crash of Hennington, Topics About Which I Know Nothing, and A Monster Calls. Whether or not you appreciate multiple points of views in storytelling is down to personal preference. For me, I’m not the biggest fan, so that might’ve contributed to my ambivalence. Although, even beyond my preferences, I thought Burn suffered from this approach as it became a little too fragmented. The character developments felt incomplete and the plot pace didn’t quite hit the synergy it needed to gel the individual points of view together.I haven’t read anything by Ness yet, but I have this same feeling a lot: that a book has all the right ingredients that mean I SHOULD love it, but either there’s just too much going on, on the pieces just don’t come together. Always disappointing! When it comes to Ness, each of his stories are so different. They’re signature Ness and you can identify his fingerprints but his books don’t fit neatly into a (sub)genre. I find that for many, when they like an author, they’re usually looking for more of the same and when they don’t get that, they don’t know what to make of that. Hasini @ Bibliosini recently posted Book Review (+ INTL GIVEAWAY): Why ‘A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire’ is My New Favourite Read of the Year Told in two parts and the third person, Burn is told from various viewpoints. The plot plays out as three separate stories yet interweaves them when the time comes. A young man from the cult is sent on a mission to the very same farm, but is he there to halt or enact the prophecy? Following him are two FBI agents, ruthless and prepared to stop at nothing. There is romance, persecution, a goddess, alternate universes and much, much more. But at the centre of it all is Sarah, a seemingly ordinary girl who may just hold the key to preventing the end of the world.

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Sarah has a long-standing friendship and evolving romance with Jason, her Japanese American neighbour, and together they face the challenges of the society they live in and the curse of a prophecy that brings death and destruction to Sarah’s doorstep. Both characters show tremendous courage and resilience fighting against societal prejudice, a vengeful goddess, small-minded and power-crazy local law enforcement and the growing acceptance that they are at the forefront of a war between humans and dragons. Then with the deaths of family and friends, and people I thought would have a better ending. Then because of war in their dimension Sarah gets to live with both her dead parents, who did not die of bullets and cancer due to this being another dimension.The twists and turns that it contains with, the teenage assassin Malcom of who discovers being gay does not matter and makes his alternate dimension self (Hugo) know that too.