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I really liked the first book in this series. So much so that I had to immediately buy this book to figure out what happened next. A part of me wishes I would have just imagined what happened myself instead of reading this book. It's not bad but it's just not what I was expecting I guess. I spent the entire first book confused by River but really liking him. I didn't like him in this book. I adored Neely in this book but I liked him in book one as well.

Luke and Sunshine still annoyed me and now there was a new character to add to my hate list. This series confuses me so much but I couldn't stop myself from reading more. Violet annoyed me in this book because I hated how she did Neely. Look if you want to be with him then be with him but don't kiss him and then turn around and spoon his brother. That's just wrong.

There are some unanswered questions and I don't like when books leave stones unturned like that. I wish there was another book just so maybe those questions can be answered but they probably wouldn't. It would just leave a new list of questions and more characters to hate.


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Between the Spark and the Burn Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea April Genevieve Tucholke Books Reviews

Personally I found it boring compared to the first novel. I think a lot more could have happened and it was just a lot of coffee drinking and thinking and poetic writing. But I'm glad to have finished the story. It wasn't bad, just not that thrilling.
Awesome ending that you'll never see coming!!!! Very suspenseful! I will definitely read the next one!! A few parts were a little bit predictable, but the shocking ending totally makes up for it. It's a very opened ended book. And I don't just mean at the last page, chapter s, paragraphs, and sometimes sentences just leave you saying AND?!?!?! Of course that can be viewed as a good or bad thing. Overall I absolutely loved it!!!
Arrived quickly and in great condition! I personally love this author, and this book was just as good as the first one. If you like suspense and the twisting and turns of a Gothic horror, this is definitely the book. It'll keep you guessing through till the end, and still surprise you!
Fast shipping and good quality.
I'm usually someone who likes things tied up with a nice neat bow, and this doesn't do that. But that's FINE, because really, I don't think anyone in the world that Tucholke has created even knows what a nice neat bow looks like. I loved the first book in this series, and want to warn people that this will take you in surprising directions. There are twists and turns and the tension and suspense is occasionally nail biting. My only complaint is that I suspect this means the series is over, and I'm really not ready to let go of some of the characters.
Review

I’m no fan of horror or anything scary, far from it, but I was really fascinated by the first book in this two-book series. It managed to lure me in with gorgeous prose, a simple yet compelling plot and creepiness galore. There was no question on if I would take on the second one or not.

From the picturesque and the abandoned grandness of Citizen Kane, the characters are off on a road trip through one uncanny and mysterious town to another in search of River and the diabolical Brodie. With clues where to look for next coming from a supernatural sightings radio show, the gang stumbles on several dangerous situations and far off their rockers people. The atmosphere through the book remains haunting, eerie and foreboding, it felt as if the characters and the story was cut out completely from the modern world and thus no common rules applied. It helped in creating an unpredictable and frightening journey with spooky and I-kind-of-saw-something-similar-coming-but-not-like-THIS twists.

It’s somewhat surprising given the genre and my attitude towards horror that I’m very fond of this series. It’s exquisitely written and, even though on a basic level, the plot isn’t anything extraordinary, the story is special in its whole essence, the feeling it creates and in its tone of dreaminess, it simply feels different from other YA, in a class of its own which I can’t fully characterize.

Nevertheless, no matter how much I genuinely savored this story, I couldn’t stand the ending, AT ALL. It was simply unacceptable to me, the whole 180 degree turn it took regarding the romance was like waiting for a birthday present, knowing what you get, really really craving the thing you’re going to get and then to get a pair of socks instead. A quality, soft and cute pair of socks, but socks nevertheless. I didn’t like it and if it wasn’t for the whole atmosphere of the book distracting me with the stunning vocabulary and images I would have been raging when finishing the last page. In a sense it’s an open ending, in a sense it’s bittersweet, in a sense it’s just, logical and realistic (as much as you can be in this book), but I DIDIN’T want it to end that way. There is nothing more aggravating in YA than love triangles!

Another slight con The story did get slightly odd at times, I don’t even know how to explain, and most of the time I felt the book took place in another era or world, because come on, no mobiles, no laptops, no modern technology of any kind? But, I have to admit the author is masterful in making me forget that such things even exist in the setting for this book.

Characters

Violet – She slightly annoyed me in this one, her eccentricities were more explicit to me for some reason and due to that I couldn’t really understand her. Yes, I accept that you’re an old soul, a little too tightly attached to and obsessed with anything related to your dead grandma, but she felt distant and unrelatable and I don’t think it’s only due to her being eccentric. Despite this, I think she was an intriguing and not your run-off-the-mill heroine. She definitely won’t fade from my mind so easily like all the other Mary-Sues.

River – What a delightfully creepy and cuddly boy, you really never know what was going on in his deceitful, secretive and messed up head! He had his weird moments, but I loved him as a character and feel that in a sense he got the shorter end of the stick in the story, which was unfair.

Neely – Yes, he was dependable, nice, optimistic, courageous, etc, but he was just too good to be true and didn’t really fit with the other misfits of story. Definitely more of value than River, but also, less captivating.

Overall

As I already mentioned, apart from the ending this is a wonderful YA horror book. Don’t let my complaints about the end deter you from giving it a try, because it really is a memorable story in its genre with masterful text and, honestly, having the biggest scaredy-cat get through both of them and still praise it, has got to be the best kind of recommendation.
I was so disappointed in this sequel. The first one, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, is one of my top ten favorite books of all time. This one, however fell flat. Was it written by someone else? Did she write it in a week under a deadline while drunk?

The scene where we are introduced to Pine. I SWEAR, I have read/watched that scene before. Was it, an old episode of X-files, or some crime drama or paranormal show or movie from Chiller? I can't place it but its so familiar and its one the tip of my tongue and I can't place it.

This book was just all over the place, like she couldn't decide what direction she wanted it to go. Her "twist" toward the end. Ya, saw that coming a mile away. Did not like this one at all. While I still loved the first one and recommend it to people to read, this one is terrible.
I really liked the first book in this series. So much so that I had to immediately buy this book to figure out what happened next. A part of me wishes I would have just imagined what happened myself instead of reading this book. It's not bad but it's just not what I was expecting I guess. I spent the entire first book confused by River but really liking him. I didn't like him in this book. I adored Neely in this book but I liked him in book one as well.

Luke and Sunshine still annoyed me and now there was a new character to add to my hate list. This series confuses me so much but I couldn't stop myself from reading more. Violet annoyed me in this book because I hated how she did Neely. Look if you want to be with him then be with him but don't kiss him and then turn around and spoon his brother. That's just wrong.

There are some unanswered questions and I don't like when books leave stones unturned like that. I wish there was another book just so maybe those questions can be answered but they probably wouldn't. It would just leave a new list of questions and more characters to hate.