Amanda Searcy

Jenny, seventeen, moves to small-town New Mexico with her father after police nearly discover she is an arsonist but her urge to start fires persists, and she konws she is being watched.

Watch You Burn

Paige Green

Disclaimer: I received this book from Delacorte Press and Rockstar Book Tours. Thanks! All opinions are my own.

Rating: 4/5

Publication Date: October 23, 2018

Genre: YA Mystery

Recommended Age: 14+ (arson, violence, lots of fire, mystery)

Pages: 352

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Synopsis: Jenny didn't want to move to the creepy, possibly haunted town with her dad. But the cops are on to her, and the only way she can protect herself is by moving as far away from her hometown as possible and staying out of trouble.

But even after she moves, Jenny still gets the itch. The itch to light a match and then watch it burn.

It's something she hasn't been able to stop, ever since an accident years ago. Now, in a new town, Jenny has the strange feeling that someone is watching her every move. Will her arsonist ways be exposed? Or is the burning truth deep inside her a greater danger?

For the most part this book had a really engrossing plot. The plot was so intriguing that I couldn’t put the book down! I felt that the book had some really interesting characters and I liked how developed they were and I liked how the book turned out. It was a really good mystery with some twists I didn’t see coming and it certainly kept me on my toes!

However, I did feel that the book was really hard to get into and it can be offputting for some readers. I think that the main difficulty of the book is that it’s really slow paced and stuff is draw out unnecessarily long in my opinion. I felt that the this book didn’t have a lot of reread potential as well and the book didn’t make sense for in my opinion for some of the things that occurred in this novel.

Verdict: Twisty windy mystery galore!

Watch You Burn

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