Burn For Burn

Burn For Burn

by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian

The novel that i have chosen is “Burn For Burn” by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian. This book is about three girls who are planning for a sweet revenge. Each one of them has someone that they despise for some personal reasons. 

The girl that in my opinion has the worst problem is Mary. She is a kind and polite girl. She is very quiet and shy. The one she wants to get back to is Reeve. Before Reeve came, she was a popular kid, she had good grades and everyone wanted to be her friends. At first, she wanted to befriend Reeve whom at that time was a new kid but then Reeve sort of turned her offer down and insulted her by calling her ‘fat’. They were from an island so they had to take a ferry to go to school together. Reeve started to act nice to her on the ferry but as soon as they reached the mainland, he’ll start to mock her. However, she doesn’t care as long as he is nice to her when they are on the ferry. One day, someone saw them talking and Reeve started to get embarrassed. He mocked her and suddenly pushed her out of the ferry. She fell and nearly drowned. Luckily, someone jumped in and saved her. Just when she thought nothing worse could happened, she realized that she was wearing a white shirt and it became a see-through shirt when wet.  She was so embarassed when everybody on board was staring at her. When she got home she tried to hang herself because she was so depressed. However, as soon as she kicked the stool she realized that she didn’t want to die, she wanted to live. At that moment her mother saved her.


The next girl is Kat, the ‘rock star’. She doesn’t care about what people say. She is sassy, she stands up for herself and she doesn’t depends on anyone. She is that kind of girl who’s interested in bikes instead of make ups. She used to be friends with Rennie before Lillia came in the picture. Kat was then neglected and left alone because she stopped being social when her mum was diagnosed with cancer. When they entered high school their friendship was officially over. Rennie started rumors saying that Kat is obsessed with her and that she is a lesbian which was absolutely not true. Kat being the Kat that doesn’t give a damn then decided to ignore all the eyes and the hatred. One day, Rennie mocked her infront of  Alex. In which she decided that she had enough. She knew she doesn’t deserve this and spitted on  Rennie. When she knew Lillia had problem with Alex, she came up with the idea to revenge on Rennie for all the hard time she gave her. Kat also had a crush on Alex Linds who is Lillia’s friends since childhood.

In regards to each other character portrayed, my favorite was Lillia. She is an Asian girl who has a little sister whom she cares about more than anything. She came from a wealthy family. She is Rennie’s best friend although Rennie always belittled her. She has always been Rennie’s shadow. The reason why she agreed with this plan was because Kat told her that she saw Alex sleeping with her sister. Therefore, as a very protective sister she wanted to put a revenge on Alex. However, she figured out later that Alex was trying to help her sister who got drunk at a party. Although her character seemed a little bit over the top, after reading the book until the end then i understand the reason why she cared so much about her sister’s life.  She did not want her sister to have a life she had. I also found out that Alex has a crush on Lillia ever since they were kids. Kat took this opportunity to watch Alex suffered because she thought Alex had cheated on her. 


At the end of this book they all managed to revenge each one of their so called friends. But there were chaos. This book ended with such suspense. 

p/s if youre interested in reading this book please read the second book as well which is called ‘Fire with Fire’ and the upcoming one which will be out on Fall 2014 thanks

Jasmine Faiqah
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