I did not see this coming. I thoroughly enjoyed Burn for Burn and Fire with Fire. Ashes to Ashes, however, left me cold. I was already 84% through the book and yet I couldn’t bring myself to finish it. That thought keeps nagging at me but reading the last few chapters would for me be a waste of time.
THE LIST by Siobhan Vivian
There are a whole lot of main characters to keep track of in The List! Eight of them, to be exact. At least the narrative is in third person. That gives it a semblance of consistency, even though it still felt like I was juggling eight points-of-view as I read the book. At 332 pages, each character averages 40 pages, unless their paths overlap, which doesn’t happen all that much because they all hail from different social circles.
SAME DIFFERENCE by Siobhan Vivian
Emily was new to art. She had only recently discovered her interest in it and hoped that she would be able to learn more at a summer art programme. Little did she know she would find students with years of experience. Of course she started questioning if she made the right choice to pursue art…