![]() ![]() Overall, White’s writing is poignant and clever, as readers have come to expect, and Lada’s character continues to grow more interesting. ![]() Appearing whiny and repetitive often, instead of feeling empathetic for a character who’s journey was important to me, I was driven to want it to end only because I could no longer stand to hear him complain about it. Still, BRIGHT WE BURN gives readers great moments of triumph, joy, and pain - just as the previous novels explored a world in which a woman defies all expectations and revels in her difference, BRIGHT WE BURN continues Lada’s journey, but it becomes decidedly darker.įor Radu, the loneliness that solidifies for him during the Fall of Constantinople continues to burden him throughout this novel. ![]() Instead, I was faced with the harsh reality of a Lada struggling to hold onto power, like a snake slipping through her fingers a Radu forced, again and again, to do things for Mehmed that he does not wholeheartedly believe in. ![]()
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