Published: Jan. 25, 2013
Words: 49,491 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781301731541

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Series Description: A love triangle involving a poor, but sassy, mixed race young girl called Burn, a wealthy, white young man called Brody and a African American street thug named Trojan, who wants what Brody has and who won't take no for an answer. A four-part series

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What if I looked like Alicia? Would all that change? What if I didn’t have ‘that hair’ as Dawn called it? Would I be more acceptable?
I rush to the mirror and peer at myself. Yuck! I look downright ugly with my brown skin and my yucky, curly hair. No wonder Dawn won’t accept me as her son’s girlfriend.
How could my mother put me in this situation – marrying a black man and giving birth to me – a less than perfect person? Stupid, unthinking idiot! (Read more) Excerpt:

What if I looked like Alicia? Would all that change? What if I didn’t have ‘that hair’ as Dawn called it? Would I be more acceptable?
I rush to the mirror and peer at myself. Yuck! I look downright ugly with my brown skin and my yucky, curly hair. No wonder Dawn won’t accept me as her son’s girlfriend.
How could my mother put me in this situation – marrying a black man and giving birth to me – a less than perfect person? Stupid, unthinking idiot!
I rush to my purse, empty out all my money and count it.
Erro appears in my line of vision.
“What do you want?” I hiss.
“Nothing,” she says. “Just wondering what you’re up to?”
“Can’t you see? I’m counting my money so I can go to the store, buy some hair color and color this …this mess I call hair!” I slap my head several times.
“Hair color?”
"Blonde, hair dye, if you must know. And I have enough for it here.”
“I see,” she says in a voice that tells me she doesn’t see, which irritates the shit out of me right now.
Ignoring her, I grab my purse and race towards the mall. With ‘Scandinavian Blonde firmly in my grasp, I hurry home.
Erro watches me while I mix the color. “Whaaat?” I ask. “Why you looking at me like that, Erro?” My voice is crackly and I still have that pricking sensation behind my eyes.
“You need to stop and think about what you’re doing, Burn,” Erro says in a kind voice.
“Listen Erro, you don’t understand – if I’m blonde and blue-eyed, then Dawn, she will love me. Don’t you get it?”
“But you can’t be that, Burn. You can only be you.”
“Yes, I can! Tina, she’s got blue contacts and she’s bringing them over. I can wear them, then I will look beautiful like Alicia and Kate. So please, keep out of it. I know what I’m doing. Relax.”
Turning my back on her, I apply the hair color and impatiently watch the clock. After I rinse out the hair color, I spend hour’s blow drying and hot ironing my hair till its poker straight. Then I slip on, with great difficulty, the blue contacts Tina dropped off. I look in the mirror and nod even though my eyes burn like hell.
“See? My hair is blonde and straight, I have the bluest eyes and I no longer look African American.”
“But you don’t look like Burn anymore,” Erro points out.
“So? I don’t want to look like Burn. She’s …ugly and …” I shiver with disgust at the thought of what I looked like before my hair was colored and before my contact lens.
People change their looks all the time. It’s not biggie. Pink changed her hair color from whateva to pink. Why?
Oprah wears a wig so she can look like anyone other than Oprah.”
“They change it for themselves, Burn, not because they’re trying to get into Dawn McGraw’s club.”
I roll my eyes. “You don’t get it, Erro. How can you? You’re white.”
Warning: strong language, violence, sexual references, racial slurs.

Meet Burn, she’s almost seventeen, has never been kissed, suck at math, is constantly in trouble with the cops.
To make matters worse, she has a gift – she can hear peoples’ thoughts.

When the school star athlete, blue-eyed, blonde haired, Brody McGraw asks her out, Burn can hardly believe her luck.
In record time they start dating and she is thrilled when she can finally change her Facebook profile status to ‘In a relationship’.
However, Brody’s mother has huge political plans for her family and she makes it clear, that they do not include someone with Burn’s color and, as she calls it, ‘that hair’.
When Burn suffers a severe bout of self-loathing because of Dawn McGraw’s words, she is forced to make a decision that will break her heart.
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Review by: Misty Clark on Feb. 22, 2013 :
This is the 2nd series I have read that was written by Eve Rabi. The first series I read was Gringa. Burn's World is a fascinating series that will pull you in. The series is quite an emotional series that goes through Burns good times, bad times, worst of times and then the best of times.

There are some grammatical errors but they can be overlooked as you are more interested in reading Burn's story, at least that is how it was for me.

What makes this series a great series is that it is so believable and that many will be able to relate, except for maybe the more supernatural parts of the story. Great job Eve, ant wait to read the next ones.
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

Review by: LH on Feb. 07, 2013 :
Real people with real problems... Just love it
(reviewed the day of purchase)

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