Paranormal is the monster of all love stories. It constantly keeps you guessing and puts you right on the edge of your seat. Paranormal genre includes elements beyond the range of scientific explanation, including the traditional fantasy, science-fiction, or horror. The paranormal genre is a very unique and different type of genre you do not see very often and in this novel, you really experience that characters are not very fair to one another.In Burn for Burn you witness a lot of changes within the boundaries of the protagonist's feelings.
In this novel you get a greater understanding of the protagonist's past, how she got where she is now, elements of her past which make her the person she is today and most importantly how her and her friends ended up in the relationship they are now in. "You're obviously upset about something, or maybe you just enjoy spying on people in bathrooms? (Han,67). Looking back onto the genre, characters feelings really falls under the paranormal point of view in the book.As you get more into the book, the reader gets a greater understanding of the state of which the characters stand with each other, which is where betrayal leaks into the story. As the complication grows stronger and stronger you observe characters hurting each others feelings in ways that are personal to the characters and are not released to the reader.
Also you observe characters ditching others for no apparent reason, letting feelings and thoughts get the best of them, and last but surely not least you observe characters turning on others.Characters believe anything they're told and abandon others in the blink of an eye. Thinking back on the paranormal genre, you see that betrayal and paranormality fall under the same type of definition. "You're such trash Kat! " (Han,45) Finally the novel portrays some unusual events that you would not normally see happen. Examples of this would be characters spying/ease dropping on others to find out information they would like to know. Dramatic change in attitudes such as turning on each other and miscommunication between haracters, and finally we experience friends pretending like they do not know each other, being ignorant and humiliating each other for their own sake.
"Don't sweat it, I've already forgotten your name" (Han, 69)Thinking back onto the genre, you see that paranormality and spying/ease dropping both are acts of mischievousness and go hand in hand. Therefore by reading this novel you really get a greater visual of characters being unfair to one another, which is what the paranormal genre is very good at highlighting. It is all about the more ysterious side of things rather than the expected, and it can always keep you guessing. The protagonist's feelings are thrown around and get hit with twists and turns, you get a greater knowledge of the relationships between the characters, and not always the good ones… most of the time the mysterious ones, and finally the unusual events taking place in the story.
The creepy ins and outs of what is going on. All in all, this has been a fantastic read and has given a greater knowledge of the paranormal genre and how even in reality things can be a bit paranormal.
