5/30/2023 0 Comments Burn bright marianne de pierresBut it’s also about new friendships and lost relationships, loyalty, and finding people you can relate to.Īdd the window dressing of a volcanic island in perennial darkness, secret underground tunnels, magnificent deserted churches, beautiful clothes of lace and velvet, bats, and a headstrong pirate, and you have an exotic story that (hopefully!) makes you hold your breath. It’s populated by scary creatures and strange authority figures who are not what they seem. The world of Ixion is both glamorous and sinister, just as the real world can be. It reflects that mixture of uncertainty and promise that I once felt, and to some degree what I see my teenage sons going through now. That’s why, I think Burn Bright is a book of such contrasting emotions. Going to boarding school, feeling alone, deserted, unhappy, scared, unsure. My first party, my first school dance, my first visit to a nightclub - all those moments of adrenalin and excitement.īut there was the other side as well. Some of them were based on my wonderful teenage memories. So many ideas were running through my head when I wrote Burn Bright.
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