“Your life is not your own, Vi,” she said. “Don’t you know that? It belongs to the
people who love you. So you need to take
better care of it.”
—Between the Spark and the Burn
Between the Spark and
the Burn picks up where we left
Violet. River is gone, her parents are
back, and things seem to be gathering dust again. Violet is in an obvious funk since River left
with Brodie, and Neely is trying to find his brother while keeping secrets of
his own. Violet, Neely, and some of the
old gang get together at first to find River; however, Violet and Neely are
separated from Luke and Sunshine early on and will go together from town to
town looking for River. Following odd
tales, tabloids, and the radio Violet and Neely eventually find River’s
location, but what they don’t expect to find is a Sea God, a boy with burning
hair and a sweet disposition, twists and turns that lead to Brodie, and
love. I know it’s not cool to have a
love triangle (I hate them myself), but in this book it worked. Violet doesn’t seem to be comparing the two
and she’s not using the two, if anything they are all using each other for the
sake of River. I am really curious to
find out what happens in the next book, because frankly s*&^ just got
real. The end left me hopeful and
hopeless. I love this series and this author because she
keeps an air of cool interest, splashed around in beautiful prose. It is hard to have a writer both embody the
sublime in their descriptions and in their diction. Another rare gem to add to the YA collection,
with a crazy cast of characters, even crazier shenanigans, and all set in
eerily beautiful rare towns.
4 out 5 stars. Thank You Edelweiss!
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