Book Blog #2

Burning Blue

 

 

     "A beautiful girl, a hideous crime, and one boy caught in the middle of it all". That is a grabber written on the front of the book Burning Blue. That line makes the book seem fast passed, fun, and entertaining. Unfortunately, that line is terribly, terribly wrong. A beautiful girl named Nicole has acid thrown on her face. She meets lonely guy named Jay who is good with computers and together they try and find out who attacked her. There is however a bright side; the author's writing style.

 

     The author's writing style is interesting and fun to follow. Paul Griffin writes this story from multiple views including Nicole's, Jay's, and segments from Nicole's personal diary and Dr. Schmidt's journal. Doctor Schmidt is the therapist that Nicole sees after being traumatized from the attack. With all of these views, it makes you realize how damaged Nicole is, who was previously thought to be perfect, and it shows the paranoia taking place. Everyone is worried that there could be another attack and since the attacker isn't known, there a many different opinions on who it may be.

 

     In my opinion, this book moves too slowly and even though the writing is great, this book is still a bad read. I plead to you not to read it. Even the idea of a mystery book like this is old news. What makes this book different from all the other "acid attack mysteries" this one is different from the rest because of the view you get from all the different characters. im sure there will be other books just like this in a couple of decades if not a couple of years.