Enna Burning

Enna Burning is a sequel to Goose Girl, in the Books of Bayern series. I really enjoyed this book for a number of reasons. First of all I really liked that it was a fairy tale for a higher reading level, I feel like alot of the time I wouldn't read fairy tales becuase they were for younger kids, and even though this isn't a classic fairy tale, it still had the some of the same ideas. Also I really liked how much the characters developed. All of her characters were so complex and had such real personalities. They also all grew over the course of the story and formed interesting relationships. There was one thing in praticular that I didn't like about this book though. One of the main plots in this story is about a girl learning how to speak with fire, and her friend (who is the main character of Goose Girl) is developing her speech with wind and birds, which started in the last book. However these elements are supposed to be so powerful that without balance they can begin to, in a sense, destroy the people speaking to them, and that was the problem. Since the book was narrated in first person, by Enna, it sometimes felt like the book was being narrated by someone on drugs. So well the concept was interesting, I sometimes had to go back and reread parts becuase her feelings and thoughts were so confusing, and that is one of the reasons the book was a little difficult to read. Overall though I thought the book was really good and Shannon Hale did alot with the characters and plot she choose.