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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers; First Edition edition, 2012
\nISBN-13: 978-1442440753<\/p>\n
Available: New and Kindle<\/p>\n
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Burn for Burn<\/em>\u00a0is about three girls who decide to get even with the people who wronged them, and who discover that revenge is not as clear cut as it seems. Two of the girls, Lillia and Kat, were part of a threesome of friends that was broken up by the third girl, Rennie, who has turned viciously against Kat. Both of the girls are close to popular Alex, who has betrayed Kat romantically and Lillia as a friend. Mary is the X factor: she has returned unobtrusively after an absence of many years to confront star football player Reeve about\u2026 something. After minor revenge attacks on Alex turn out to have been misguided, the girls target the homecoming dance as a place to humiliate Rennie and Reeve, but it turns out that Mary has something unexpected and dangerous at her fingertips.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Many reviews I\u2019ve read say that this reads like a contemporary until the very end when a paranormal aspect is revealed. I disagree– the paranormal runs like an almost invisible thread through the book, but it isn\u2019t a surprise by any means, and by the time the girls target the dance, it\u2019s pretty evident that there will be a\u00a0Carrie<\/em>-style confrontation at the end.\u00a0 This, Han and Leigh execute beautifully, with a heart-stopping ending that does what\u00a0Carrie<\/em>\u00a0cannot, because the disaster that takes place in\u00a0Burn for Burn<\/em>\u00a0is not fatal, and the revenge was intentional,\u00a0 even though the execution of the plan went awry. This gives the three girls time to reflect and regret the effects of their actions, which is horrifying in a much different and human sort of way.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I did not realize when I first read this that it was the first book in a trilogy. As a stand-alone novel,\u00a0Burn for Burn<\/em>\u00a0has serious weaknesses, but with two more volumes to flesh things out, I expect the three books together will ultimately make for a compelling, heart-breaking, and satisfying read.\u00a0 Recommended.<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers; First Edition edition, 2012 ISBN-13: 978-1442440753 Available: New and Kindle \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Burn for Burn\u00a0is about three girls who decide to get even with the people who wronged them, and who discover that revenge is not as clear cut as it seems. Two of the girls, Lillia and Kat, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Eu9f-oj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1508,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions\/1508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}