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A review by amh219298
The Burning by Anna Todd
4.0
*3.5 star rating* I’m absolutely in love with Karina and Kael’s story, and look forward to seeing how it continues. I would agree with others that this book did focus a lot more on the side characters and internal dialogue than the first book. However I think it was needed some to get an understanding on why Kael is partly the way he is with his friends. We see more of the trauma and mental hardships his friends/battle buddies are going through, and just how often Kael seems to have to go break up fights/save his friends from doing stupid things (or shaking up after they’ve already done them). The plot twist/cliff hanger at the end wasn’t really a shocker to me. I called it from the start of those characters’ interactions that it was going to happen.
*possible spoilers if you haven’t read the first book*
That being said, I do feel like there are a lot of holes that need to be filled in the last book. This book ends just a couple months after Kael and Karina met, so there’s still a lot to be filled in the year and half+ left before the prologue funeral, and what happens after that.
We still don’t have the full details of what happened that led to the platoon’s main trauma that the twins’ father is involved in, and we still don’t know what exactly happened that led to Kale’s main injury to his leg that also seemed to send most of the entire Platoon home (besides it happening during a car fire). We also haven’t even gotten to the part of Kael and Karina being in Atlanta together (and apparently ruining it according to Karina’s prologue in book 1) and her meeting Kael’s mother like the prologue hints at. And it felt like they were going to make Nielsen a bigger plot line than he was in this book, so I’m assuming his part of the story will return in the last book too. Otherwise that part of the storyline was just pointless.
I feel like it’s going to lead to the last book feeling really rushed. I hope I’m wrong, and I’m sure I’ll love it either way because I love this story so far. But there seems to be a lot missing that the last book will (hopefully) have to fill.
*possible spoilers if you haven’t read the first book*
That being said, I do feel like there are a lot of holes that need to be filled in the last book. This book ends just a couple months after Kael and Karina met, so there’s still a lot to be filled in the year and half+ left before the prologue funeral, and what happens after that.
We still don’t have the full details of what happened that led to the platoon’s main trauma that the twins’ father is involved in, and we still don’t know what exactly happened that led to Kale’s main injury to his leg that also seemed to send most of the entire Platoon home (besides it happening during a car fire). We also haven’t even gotten to the part of Kael and Karina being in Atlanta together (and apparently ruining it according to Karina’s prologue in book 1) and her meeting Kael’s mother like the prologue hints at. And it felt like they were going to make Nielsen a bigger plot line than he was in this book, so I’m assuming his part of the story will return in the last book too. Otherwise that part of the storyline was just pointless.
I feel like it’s going to lead to the last book feeling really rushed. I hope I’m wrong, and I’m sure I’ll love it either way because I love this story so far. But there seems to be a lot missing that the last book will (hopefully) have to fill.