The first fourteen pages of this book murdered one of my favourite characters. The remaining couple of hundred pages mutilate Barrons' corpse. 
 I think Moning has lost her interest in Mac and Barrons and chose to come back to them due to popular demand. MacKayla Lane, her strongest and best character, is reduced to a commentator of things happening around her. Moning gives us excuses for this throughout the book, but it doesn't make it any better, especially when she turns Mac into nothing more than a sex-obsessed voyeur. Barrons is something of a comic relief, with only Mac reminding us of his former glory. 
 With severe dilution of characters, all the faults of the book shined ever so brightly. There's actually no plot whatsoever. And excuses Moning uses for plot are so poorly executed you can mistake them for plot only if you're looking for one. The pace is jumbled and you actually get to see when Moning decided that it was time for some character development. My ass. Also, seeing WTF in a book as a part of internal monologue (three times!!!) really pisses me off. 
 While I was reading Burned I had my suspicions that Moning made her decisions while keeping in mind the public outcry following Iced and she decided to please the fans. Or try to. Having finished the book, I'm almost certain that most of her decisions were made in order to please the masses so that book sales would be massive. 
 Well, you've lost one book-buyer, hon.