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Combined with that is the fact that gay love, not straight love, is what causes the whole “change in the course of history” in this book. I know, it seems like a small thing, but after so many books where it’s straight love that saves the day, this feels like a breath of fresh air. Knowing the future is part of that future's past. Perhaps the foreseen happens because we try to change it.”

Burn by Patrick Ness – The Last Book On The Left Book Review: Burn by Patrick Ness – The Last Book On The Left

Filmic scenes offer striking images: a car in the claws of a dragon, a shoot-out straight from Tarantino For these books, I’ve won the Carnegie Medal twice, the Costa Children’s Book Award, the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, the Red House Book Award, the Jugendliteratur Preis, the UKLA Award, the Booktrust Teenage Prize and the fabulous, fabulous, fabulous Jim Kay also won the Greenaway for his illustrations in A Monster Calls (so buy that version, would you?). That all said, smaller moments were nice and this idea of several worlds and some having dragons without and some just having humans that are dragons within? Very cool. You would think that the story would conclude when Malcolm reaches his target, but it doesn’t. This is only partway through and another storyline begins. There were certainly plenty of twists and I wasn’t expecting the book to change the direction the way it did. Sometimes you just have to feel bad about a thing. Sometimes that's the only thing that makes you human.”And another thing I strongly did not like was the ending. I thought it was cheap and just too easy. The fact that Sarah stayed in the parallel universe and all the deaths that happened on Earth #1 got reversed made me mad. Literally every single dead person got resurrected and she got to re-start a new perfect life – nah, fam, I’m not about that life. The use of the resurrection trope bothered me to no end and I simply could not get on board with all that. Kazimir the dragon is a small Russian Blue, not many are seen and certainly not working on a farm. The book might be set in a fantasy world but the racism and bigotry of the 50s are certainly present and the locals don’t like a Blue being close by, he could be a Russian spy. The local police officer already doesn’t like the family as Sarah is of mixed race. He also has an issue with her best friend Jason who is of Japanese descent. In een actiefilm werkt het geweldig goed, verschillende verhaallijnen en scènes die kort/kort/langer/lang/kort duren. Ze geven het geheel ritme. Ze zorgen voor spanning en voortgang. In ‘Burn’ stoorden de verschillende verhaallijnen en het korte/korte/langere/lange/korte me op den duur. Dan was ik eens een paar bladzijden in het gezelschap van een van de vele personages en bleek ik weer te moeten switchen naar een geheel ander personage en een andere drive, zonder dat ik een verandering van kleur hoorde. The dragon, Kazimir, has more to him than meets the eye, though. Sarah can’t help but be curious about him, an animal who supposedly doesn’t have a soul but who is seemingly intent on keeping her safe.

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The pacing of the story is on top of that really nice too. There is constantly something happening and the characters are constantly on the move. There is not one dull moment, the story never stands still, it also doesn't go in circles. And all the pieces of the puzzle also come really nicely together in the finale. If you're the kind of reader who enjoys a nice plot with loads of action this is totally the book for you. 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. 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! Just because the devil gave them the gift of speech doesn't mean you're talking to anything more than a mostly undomesticated predator.”Apparently I was wrong because quite literally everything went wrong. And I am really sad about it. Hasini @ Bibliosini recently posted Book Review (+ INTL GIVEAWAY): Why ‘A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire’ is My New Favourite Read of the Year He was the thing the world had suffered from most in her four billion years of existence: a stupid man with power." I have to admit that part of why I had such mixed feelings towards Burn was that it was one of my most anticipated reads of 2020. Ness has such a unique take on storytelling and injects a lot of creativity into his books. He did show some of his brilliance with his insightfulness into the human condition but I didn’t think that was enough to carry the rest of the book into four, let alone five stars from me. 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…

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