Review of Burn
Ambition, envy, betrayal, jealousy, and greed - all active and well in each persons heart are allowed to run free in the main character of Burn, the newest novel by Ted Dekker and Erin Healy.
Janeal Mikkado is young and ambitious. Only 17 when the book opens, Janeal is confronted with a choice that later shapes her life and impacts every other person she loves.
She makes an unwise choice. Her heart is not in check and she chooses money over her family, her friends, and her own life. She leaves her friend to die in a fire and walks away to start a new life with a new name.
For fifteen years, Janeal pursues every imaginable idea or dream she wants. But, her life is about to change. When she learns that the person she thought she left to die in the fire, Katy Morgan, actually survived, she sets out to secure her new life by whatever means possible.
"There are two chambers in every heart, one for Judas and one for John. One must be driven out or both will die."
What follows is what I've come to expect from Ted Dekker. His work makes the almost imaginable believable and weaves the essence of truth throughout. This is the second novel from Ted Dekker and Erin Healy. As in their previous work Kiss, I sense that Erin Healy brings great depth to the story line, especially from the female characters.
Pick this one up. If you've every been pursued by unresolved issues in your past and attempted to repress them only to realize you cannot outrun the choices you've made, you will like this novel. I recommend it highly.
Reviewed by: Keiki Hendrix
Reviewed for: The Vessel Project
