A review by magentabyfive
So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole

4.0

 

I read So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole. Thank you, NetGalley and Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. 

 

This book was aggressively in the OK area for reading for me. There dragons were cool, and some of the ideas with them were interesting in how they came about and the culture that sprung up around them. The characters, well, the sister was really interesting. I liked the parts of her trying to fit in and learn in her new, hostile environment while also acting as a really bad spy. I honestly wish the book was more focused on her. 

 

The problem was the other MC. For one thing, I kept having to remind myself that this wasn’t a sequel, or the start of a new series in an already established world, because while part of the fun in reading this is supposed to be that Faron has already had her big adventure and saved her people and this is the adventure after that, it left me needing to read the book before it. Like this book really needed to have written the first big adventure book/s before it got to this one. 

 

Or it just could have been from her sister’s point of view, as that would have felt more natural. 

 

Still, Faron’s parts aren’t bad, they just weren’t what I was invested in, and it felt half the time like I was getting enough of her sister trying to be this new person and navigate her new environment, because we kept going back to Faron. Like, I could have learned some of this information of how Faron (can’t actually write what happened because of spoilers). 

 

Anyway, a fairly solid book, and I’m interested to see where it’ll go from here.