Burn Mark

LoveReading4Kids Says

Ancient witchcraft in a modern world. This is an action-packed and magical modern-day drama full of East End gangs and witches - think 'Spooks' meets 'The Sopranos' meets Witch Child. It is a totally original, utterly engaging page-turner from an exciting breakthrough author. This is the author's third novel.

A review by Katy Poulter  The concept for Burn Mark is amazing and could have made an awesome book but the way it is written makes it slow and boring to read. There are some exciting parts that gripped me and made me want to read on but there is so long between them that I got bored and discouraged from reading it. I love the world that the author created which is just like the world we know now except from the fact that witches exist and this is thought out so well from the words people use to special organisations that are part of everyday life in the book. It is a very consistent book with everything inside it stayed the same and the world never fluctuated and I admire that in a book. I liked Lucas and his way of thinking but I never warmed to Glory and I didn't like her from the start. It took me almost three weeks to read it because it dragged on and I got so bored. I think the idea of having two stories going on at once and then kind of merging is brilliant but unfortunately, I don't think it really worked as I found myself getting confused and not sure which character was where. Overall, I wouldn't recommend this book as I found it slow and boring but I can understand why some people might like it.

Katy Poulter is a member of the Lovereading4kids Reader Review Panel but she has reviewed this novel in the first instance for the Leeds Book Award as it is one of the 2013 shortlisted titles. The organisers have kindly agreed to let us also make use of Katy's review.

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