Fire Colour One
Jenny Valentine
Subjects
- Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
- Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
- Facts & Information - lists, stats and plenty of facts
- Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
Average rating
A bold and brilliant novel about love, lies and redemption, from award-winning author, Jenny Valentine – one of the greatest YA voices of her generation. Iris's father, Ernest, is at the end of his life and she hasn't even met him. Her best friend, Thurston, is somewhere on the other side of the world. Everything she thought she knew is up in flames. Now her mother has declared war and means to get her hands on Ernest's priceless art collection. But Ernest has other ideas. There are things he wants Iris to know after he's gone. And the truth has more than one way of coming to light.
Reviews
Initially, I found this book a little boring, but in the end, it turned out to be a well crafted masterpiece. Fire Colour One, talks about a Iris, a girl who battles with life and lights fires to release her anger - an arsonist some might say. One day, her mother, Hannah receives news that her husband Ernest is dying. Of course, it has been 13? 14? years since she's seen him, but Ernest is rich, and she isn't, so along with her new partner and Iris, they journey to see him. Iris, has little recollection of her father, but when they meet a bond is formed and all the lies come to the surface, but is it too late and can the fire be stopped before anyone gets hurt? Mainly for older readers, this is a passionate 5 star novel about (as they say) love, lies and redemption.
Anonymous 28.07.2016
