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Title: Fire Colour One
Author: Jenny Valentine
Narrator: Lucy Middleweek
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-06-15
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Genres: Teens, Ages 11-13
Publisher's Summary:
A bold and brilliant novel about love, lies and redemption from award-winning author Jenny Valentine - one of the greatest YA voices of her generation.
Iris' father, Ernest, is at the end of his life, and she hasn't even met him. Her best friend, Thurston, is somewhere on the other side of the world. Everything she thought she knew is up in flames. Now her mother has declared war and means to get her hands on Ernest's priceless art collection. But Ernest has other ideas. There are things he wants Iris to know after he's gone. And the truth has more than one way of coming to light.
Critic Reviews:
"A beautifully written story, soaked in love and important things." (Steven Camden, author of Tape)
"Stunning. Rich in prose, with a profound depth to the characters and themes. Extremely moving." (Sarah Lean, author of A Dog Called Homeless)
"One of the very best books I've read all year. I finished this and immediately turned back to the beginning again." (Robin Stevens, author of Murder Most Unladylike)
"I loved the unconventional nature of this book. Each character is vivid and unique; intriguing and intricate." (Guardian Children's Books)
Members Reviews:
2-dimensional tale of Yves Klein painting FC1
There is a big secret about Irisâ father. It may solve why she is an arsonist â still, a fairly small-time arsonist, although she has visions of setting the grandest fire of her life â or it may not. It may solve why he didnât get in touch with her during her growing years, or it may not. It may fix all the bugging issues in Irisâ life. Or it may not.
What transpires for an adult reader is the very slow unfolding of a secret life that borders on the illegal, and itâs described as if itâs okay. Reading through a great deal of padding in the middle, where Iris continues to give lip and outright verbal abuse to her mother and stepfather, who squat in her dying fatherâs house in the most dysfunctional of family set ups. There is a plain demarcation of the good guys and the bad guys, who have no redeeming features whatsoever. There is a lot of repetitive self-pity, in place of any wise introspection.
The twist amounted to a big farce that should have plastered a huge smile on the dour Irisâ face, and on mine as the reader, but it didnât.
Fire Colour One
(Source: I received a digital copy of this book for free on a read-to-review basis. Thanks to HarperCollins UK, Children's and NetGalley.)
âHavenât you worked it out yet?â Margot asked him.
âWhat?â
âLifeâs big secret. If a thingâs not dangerous, itâs hardly worth doing.â
This was a bit of a dull story, but it did have some interesting moments, and a mega twist at the end.
I felt quite sorry for Iris, her mother should have been ashamed of herself! She really was a despicable human being, and how someone could be so cruel and selfish was just beyond me. Iris had a weird obsession with fire though, and she really did seem to be a bit of a pyromaniac.
âI wouldnât trust Iris with anything that hasnât already burnt down.â
The storyline in this was about how Irisâ father was dying, and her selfish, money-obsessed mother basically saw this as a good thing because Irisâ father was rich!
âI donât trust any of those women.
