3.5 Stars 
 I'm just going to speak freely in this review, so WARNING there will be probably be spoilers for the series through Burned. 
 I absolutely loved the original Fever series. I can re-read it (something I can do only for a few books) and still enjoy it every time. In fact, I reread that series before picking up Iced and Burned. I was incredibly lucky and won Burned in the Goodreads giveaway - I was super excited, and then I realized that I had exams and could not afford to pick up the book. When things slowed down I decided to refresh my memory of the series before I read Burned, and I also had not read Iced at this point (don't kill me, but I really never cared for Dani's character so I wasn't super thrilled about Iced). Now, let's keep in mind that the last time I read the Fever series I thought the series was over and now Dani was going to get a trilogy. Then I heard that we would be getting more Mac books after the Dani trilogy and I was thrilled. I have no idea what happened between that point and Burned's release, but clearly I missed some news because this was not book 2 in the Dani series. Bottom line - I had no idea what was going on when I picked up Iced and therefore was even more confused by the time I got to Burned. 
 Not knowing the whole story about how book 2 in Dani's series turned into Burned, I am just going to give my opinion on what seems to be happening. I think that the author is normally an outliner (meaning she plans her series in advance and knows what is going to happen in each book, at least vaguely, before she starts writing), and then something happened, and she decided to try writing 'by the seat of her pants'. To me, it feels like Burned is trying to give us a bunch of information, much of which we probably should have received in Iced if this was supposed to be a continuation of the world. 
 Iced really did focus only on Dani, but it tried to take place right after Mac's story finished up and we were left wondering where Mac was throughout most of Iced. Now, with Burned, we kind of backtracked and found out what Mac was up to and where she has been this whole time. That made Burned a bit more tedious than I would like to admit to. Also, Burned seemed like it was a bit out of order, or at least it was trying to bring the overall story back on track and therefore it . . . well, it is hard to describe, but it didn't flow quite as well as the original series. 
 The first thing you read in Burned is "The Alpha Alternative" - this was not a good sign to me because it signaled that you needed to know that short story in order to continue with Burned. Call me crazy, but I liked that Mac didn't know about that first night, it was like a dirty secret the audience had with Barrons. So, I started out the book feeling not-so-thrilled. That being said, I'm glad to see that Mac has evolved enough from Darkfever to get mad, and then eventually let go. I wish that we had actually had more Mac/Barrons time in this book rather than leaving them in the middle of a fight for the majority of the book - or at least it felt like a majority of the book, but what can you do? 
 The bottom line about Burned is that it felt messy, it tried to do too much. Instead of telling its own story it just went off in a whole bunch of different directions that were barely held together. I really do hope that it is more of a transition book for the series and not an indication of how the rest of the series will turn out. 
 I still love the world that this author created, but unlike with the original Fever series (prior to Iced) I was strangely able to put Burned down when my family visited for a week and didn't think to pick it up again until I had free time again. With the first five books, I could not put them down no matter what the circumstance when I first read them. The fact that I put Burned down and didn't think about it speaks volumes to me about the change in the series. That being said, I am really looking forward to seeing where KMM goes with the rest of the series and I am hoping the next book doesn't feel quite so messy.