Genera(s): Dystopian Sci-fi/Romance
Subjects: post-apocalyptic, survival, climate change,
space
Setting: On Earth 300 years in the future, and in
space
POV/Tense: 1st person POV, past tense: Tora
Age/Grade Level: Teen
Length: 253 pgs.
HC/PB: Hardcover
List Price: $17.99
Publisher: Egmont
Summary/ product description: “A futuristic blend of Beth
Revis's Across the Universe and Lenore Appelhans's Level 2, Burn Out will
satisfy the growing desire for science fiction with a thrilling story of
survival, intrigue, and adventure.
Most
people want to save the world; seventeen-year-old Tora Reynolds just wants to
get the hell off of it. One of the last survivors in Earth's final years, Tora
yearns to escape the wasteland her planet has become after the sun turns
"red giant," but discovers her fellow survivors are even more deadly
than the hostile environment.
Holed up
in an underground shelter, Tora is alone--her brilliant scientist father
murdered, her mother and sister burned to death. She dreams of living on a
planet with oceans, plants, and animals. Unfortunately, the oceans dried out
ages ago, the only plants are giant cacti with deadly spines, and her pet,
Trigger, is a gun--one of the bio-energetic weapons her father created for the
government before his conscience kicked in.
When
family friend, Markus, arrives with mercenaries to take the weapons by force,
Tora's fury turns to fear when government ships descend in an attempt to kill
them all. She forges an unlikely alliance with Markus and his rag-tag group of
raiders, including a smart but quiet soldier named James.
She is
shocked when James accidentally fires one of her father's bio-weapons--weapons
designed to work only for her. She'd felt a strange pull to James from the
start, but the odds of someone sharing her energy vibration are statistically
miniscule. Tora must quickly figure out who she can trust, as she must choose
between saving herself by giving up the guns or honoring her father's request
to save humanity from the most lethal weapons in existence.”
My Review: I
was disappointed that I didn’t enjoy Burn Out as much as I wanted to. With the
comparison to the Across the Universe series, I was sure I’d enjoy it. The only
thing that I enjoyed was the main character’s voice. The narration was pretty
good. Tora is funny and sarcastic.
But the story wasn’t as exciting as I hoped. There was
no space travel till the very end. The story moved kind of slow despite the
boom only being 253 pages. It took me three and half days to read this book,
but that’s probably because I’ve been so busy. It took me about the same amount
a time just to read a book that was over 500 pages right before this. Maybe
it’s because this is the first book in a series, and it just didn’t have that
many crazy things happen.
The book s set on Earth after the sun started burning
out. The sun became an orange giant, I’m guessing, after a meteor with dark
matter in it crashed into it. It doesn’t sound all that believable, but I know
that if the sun grew that Earth would become a desert wasteland. Water would
dissipate into gas form or into space. My question is, why couldn’t they just
colonize Mars or Jupiter’s moons? And they just so happen to find another
planet in another solar system that’s just like Earth.
There was a touch of romance, but it was more of a
crush really. Tora really like James when she first met him. When she finally
let him know, he had feelings back too, but then he supposedly want to kill her
because Kale told him too, and then she hates him. And then she meets some
other guy who knows Spanish and has a dog and like him too. Really not then
kind of romance that I was hoping for. This book is similar to Black Hole Sun, but
also kind of like some other dystopian series. It’s not a book I would
recommend, but if you really enjoy books about decimated planets, then give it
a shot. I don’t think I’ll read the sequel.
Cover Art Review: Interesting image and the type is
large and sci-fi looking.
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