When I first heard about BURN FOR BURN in a YouTube book haul video a few months ago, I admit that I was *super* excited to read this, just based on the authors alone. I absolutely, positively ADORE Jenny Han's summer trilogy and I fell in love with Siobhan Vivian's novel, THE LIST, so I had nothing but the highest expectations for BURN FOR BURN. At the time, I had no idea at all that this was first in a series -- I only knew that it was a story told in alternate viewpoints (which is one of my favorite ways to position contemporary YA tales!) about three different high school girls who join together from totally different walks of life to seek out revenge against three different kids at the high school. Sounds like fun, right? 
 The story takes place on a picturesque island that can only be accessed from the mainland via ferry. Most of the families on Jar Island have grown up together from early childhood, including our three main characters -- Lillia, Kat, and Mary... 
 Lillia is beautiful and popular and she's one of the top contenders for Homecoming Queen this year as well. She and her best friend Rennie are on top of the world -- but Lillia has a secret about last summer and a certain boy who destroyed her trust and confidence and is now threatening to do the same to her younger sister. Kat was once part of the popular crowd on Jar Island until she was publically humiliated and cast aside by one of her former best friends, Rennie -- leaving her the constant brunt of jokes as she's now deemed the class outcast, rebel, and freak. Mary, soft spoken, blonde, and attractive, was so traumatized by the horrific actions of a certain popular boy on Jar Island that she was forced to relocate and change schools just to escape the shame and pity of her former life. But now she's back on the island and she's ready to face the guy who destroyed her childhood years... 
 When Mary encounters Kat and Lillia, the three girls unhatch a plan to enact revenge against all three of their former nightmares, ensuring that these teens have no choice but to feel the familiar pains of isolation and ridicule that they inflicted onto each of their victims. Starting small, the girls fire off one scheme after another to ensure that the other students are having ample opportunities to laugh *AT* Miss Popularity, Mister Quarterback, and Mister PrettyBoy. Things start to get muddled and out of control, given that Lillia is not only assisting in humiliating her alleged best friend, who happens to be Kat's nemesis, but also in destroying the scholarship opportunities of her best friend's love interest while embarassing a guy who might almost have feelings for her. Given the close knit nature of life on the island, everyone knows everybody else -- and nobody is immune from the consequences of anyone else's actions. Soon, the plots of revenge suddenly take a disastrous turn that puts one of their victims in a dangerous situation that might truly make the difference between life and death... 
 I can't deny that I was definitely entertained by this novel and I found it to be a quick, compulsively readable story that will definitely appeal to fans of contemporary YA literature in general. One thing that definitely threw me off, though, was the random supernatural element that started to creep in one of the three girls' perspectives. I'm open to seeing where Han and Vivian take this little twist in the next book in the series, but for the time being it just felt a little strange and unsettling to see magical powers pop up in the middle of what I expected to be a solid realistic fictional tale. I guess this is one of the reasons I always have a harder time reviewing the first book in a series -- I'm just not confident of the author's vision this early into things, and I don't want to assume that this was just something throw in haphazardly without further explanation when it may easily wrap up into something that makes sense later. So, I digress! 
 I did get a little confused at time with which character hated which other one and which ones were actually friends while this or that other ones were only pretending. And, the frequent fades into past memories at different points of the story made it a bit easier for me to forget over time which elements belonged with which character by the end of the story. On the flipside, I really did love the way the story alternated between each of the three girls, allowing the reader to get to know each character individually while experiencing a unique voice that propelled the story forward by making us feel more invested in their struggles. The two authors pulled this together in such a way that felt more cohesive than other dual author books I've read in the past -- not to name names or anything ... ahem, Beautiful Creatures? 
 I'm glad I had the chance to read BURN FOR BURN and I'll definitely pick up book two because my curiosity is piqued and I'm dying to know where this supernatural aspect goes. And, of course, I need to know if these girls got away with this madness, right?