A review by mferrante83
Burn the Dark by S.A. Hunt

3.0

Man, I really wanted to love this book. The premise is pretty dame aces: a witch-hunting youtube star (she pretends her videos are elaborate fakes, they aren't) returns home to the town she left after her mother was murdered by witches. The characters are all set up with some tragic backstories (there are no less than the three characters with three, different, dead mothers); it makes for some interesting parallels between the characters but the handful of long info dumps that explore backstories and explain the world don't really work for me. There is a distinct divide between Wayne and Robin in the story and we never settle down with one character long enough for one aspect of novel to really stand out. The novel feels rushed and just as we get all of the characters on the same page it just ends.