Burn has a diverse cast with Black and gay characters and I didn’t see any problems with the representation but I’m white and cis so I’m not in a position to claim whether it’s good rep or not.

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I don’t enjoy writing such negative reviews, especially for an author I’ve respected and enjoyed reading in the past, but I’m doing it to warn people in case they think they’ll find a story here with much heart and depth, one focusing on a cool dragon. And that’s because it was Patrick Ness and dragons – a match made in Heaven just for me – and I thought that literally nothing could go wrong with a team such as that one.Het botte geweld, de homofobie, het racisme, of nee, doe maar meteen de xenofobie maken deel uit van ‘Burn’, juist om er na het lezen van het boek over te discussiëren. But the weak, confusing and messy plot, the convenient ending, the insta-love romance, the abundance of topics (not very well) handled and the too many voices to follow doomed this novel and tainted my overall enjoyment. A sequel novel, The Scarlet Veil, featuring vampires also released recently and I'm looking forward to checking it out.

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Novels are anywhere from 60,000 words on up, so it's possible that just sixty days later you might have a whole first draft. This time, its message turned out to be eerily prophetic and at the same time displaying patterns and behaviours that have been happening since the dawn of humankind. The blog is here to share our love of books and the bookish world, alongside our other passions in life. Je hebt al drie personages leren kennen van waaruit Patrick Ness je het hele verhaal uit de doeken zal doen.

With fantastic chemistry between the two protagonists (who I knew I would be rooting for from their first meeting! But little by little, then with great leaps and bounds, it left behind any depth it might have had in favor of a twisty and twisted story with a murky prophecy that even the characters couldn’t understand. You know when you go to an all-you-can-eat buffet and you fill your plate so much it challenges all the laws of physics? If you are an author wanting us to review your book, please read our review policy (link under header) first. Twice Carnegie-award winning Patrick Ness’s new book Burn is a spectacular novel encompassing dragons, the FBI, parallel worlds, fanaticism and teenagers caught on very different sides of the story.

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Restraint is an essential quality for sophisticated fantasy writing and in Burn we see an author delivering action and drama without overblown hyperbole and unnecessary explanation. You also see the bickering agents as they try to track Malcolm down, yet are always two steps behind him. Burn is another tour de force by Patrick Ness with incredible storytelling that is absolutely not to be missed.I have been a big fan of Patrick Ness’ work for a while now and while his books have never disappointed me I feel this has been his best one since ‘More Than This'.