Whereas most prologues offer a mere taste of what is to come, Burn‘s prologue takes up a considerable amount of page time. Unfortunately, while the prologue was a great set-up to the story, it also foreshadowed one of the book’s greatest flaws. Felix displayed a nice blend of witty and whiny, and while some readers might be put off by his personality, I found it effective and endearing. Such events couldn’t pass without jading Felix, and Klune shows us just how Felix’s traumatic past has affected him right off the bat. I was surprised to see so much time passed before the first chapter even began, yet despite this abrupt skip forward in years Klune excelled in crafting Felix’s voice to reflect the aftermath of what we witness in the prologue. Klune succeeded in the extraordinary feat of securing my loyalty for his narrator not once, but twice, first as a child, then as an adult. I liked Felix from the start, though he tried my patience a few times as the novel progressed. The prologue is a sucker punch, throwing you straight into Klune’s world and instantly engendering sympathy for the young narrator caught up in a force much larger than himself.
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