A review by juliekatebrooks
Burn by Julianna Baggott

1.0

Wow. I have never been so disappointed in a series' ending. After two books, I had become so invested in these characters and their world, that this third book is completely dishonest to the author's original creation. The characters never seem to know what they're doing or why, perhaps to reflect the author's own uncertainty with HER book! I was mostly disappointed with Partridge's character. I feel like the author really didn't know what to do with him to finish his story. One minute he recognizes the twisted love he has for his father, and the next minute he despises the man. From _Pure_, I got a characterization of Partridge that was WAY different from this person. Maybe the author did that to show how the Dome warped people. I don't know. How could he leave Lyda and the baby? The Partridge from _Pure_ cared about reality: THAT'S WHY HE LEFT THE DOME. To find his mother, his reality. And to stay for Iralene? Who is so delusional it is a bit hard to read. I am just so unsatisfied with this ending. Up until the last 50 pages or so, I was tolerating what was happening, but the ending just ruined everything. Plus, we don't find out what happens to the world. Do the Pures all kill themselves? What happens to the Lyda's baby? What does he/she look like since it was conceived outside of the Dome? Did Our Good Mother get to kill Foresteed? What happened to Arvin and the "cure"? Where does Pressia go? What about her father? What about the other domes? Does Partridge put up a fight? Where's Cygnus? What about those weird Willux babies? Going with the crappy character developments, these questions would not have been hard to answer with just 50 more pages! Overall, If you liked Pure and Fuse, just write your own ending to the triology. This one is not worth the read.