Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Playing with Fire by April Henry

 


As a man sets a fire in a car to get rid of evidence, it spreads all over the nearby forest.  Natalia and Wyatt were doing an easy hike.  He wanted her to come because she had lived there all her life and never hiked!  As they were getting ready to leave, Wyatt sees the fire and turns them around.  Natalia HATES fire since she was trapped in one when she was 11.  As she Wyatt, and several other people band together to figure out a to get out, they are pushed towards another fire that was already burning.   Luckily for Natalia and all the others Wyatt seems to know a lot about the woods and she seems to know a lot about medical things, since she wants to go into medicine.  The question becomes will they get to a part that the fire can't get them and who will not survive along the way.

Intense story with a mystery/ thriller vibe, but not necessarily with the murder-mystery that it typically has.  I like that it brought up a lot of Natalia's character traits that were due to her history and what happened to her as a child, it showed her that she was a  strong girl.  I also was rooting for her and Wyatt to become a thing.  



 

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