A review by katiebtatton
Enna Burning by Shannon Hale

4.0

I was excited to read the sequel to [b:The Goose Girl|179064|The Goose Girl (The Books of Bayern, #1)|Shannon Hale|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255633605s/179064.jpg|2715267] by Shannon Hale, but I had to trudge through the first two thirds of Enna Burning. Enna learns to conjure fire out of the heat in the air and living things around her just in time to help out in the imminent war between her country of Bayern and neighboring Tira. I've commented before that Hale's work seems to be hit and miss for me, and I was sure this one was a miss. But when Enna is captured and identified as the Fire Witch by Tiran warriors, the book became a page-turner for me. The four stars are for the last third of the story---the beginning two thirds is probably two-stars.