#the MCs are a biracial girl w a japanese boyfriend and a gay boy

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads // twitter thread

Burn

historical fantasy set in an alternate 1957 with dragons

a girl and her father in a small town hire one to help with their farm, and despite warnings she starts to talk to him

meanwhile an assassin for a dragon worshiping cult is heading their way trailed by FBI agents, and things start to get far more complicated with world-ending prophecies and the impending war

#burn #patrick ness #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #this is one i just never got around to reading bc i guess by the time it came out i mostly don't read white dude authors anymore #(love u patrick ness tho...) #there are a lot of things i liked about this! #i love the base concept and everything; and a lot of the details #maybe the detail choices of characters/settings was a bit odd? #on one hand that's the point and also a patrick ness thing. on the other idk if it meshed entirely #definitely switches things up at halfway also! #love the weird time stuff and magic based on belief but it kinda only came in properly at the end #also. i do love the concept of dragons being russian blues. like the cats. they're called blue but theyre grey #big warning for racist police violence #the MCs are a biracial girl w a japanese boyfriend and a gay boy #also my random notesapps while listening to this: woah half way; 'you were a teenage dragon??'; society................