Not as good as the first, but that's how it goes with sequels.

Between the Spark and the Burn got back into the story well with no lag or fluff. The scene at Citizen Kane was set so well in the first book that I had a hard time accepting the new pace of the group traveling the country. It remained consistent, complex and interesting, and the new characters fit in well. The story is fantastically twisted. It has a creepy feel and magnificent world building that can compare to the Raven Cycle (my favorite series), but Violet's desperate, immature pining for River reminded me of Bella in New Moon and that annoyed the crap out of me.

I found myself awake at 4AM on a Sunday reading it. The ending was lackluster and left the future to be imagined and assumed (a third book maybe?).

Overall, a solid 4 stars and highly recommended.

After loving book one so much, I was wondering what I was going to get with the sequel. And fear not, it was just as good as book one with weirdness, awesomeness, and coolness!

I liked that Violet felt like a real teen. She was indecisive, questions her actions, protective, and loving! And Neely was seriously the best!

Each of the side characters have their own quirks and we get to meet some new ones as well as reminisce with the old ones!

April just has a way of writing that is addictive and beautiful and perfect! This duology is just what I needed!

I think before I say anything about this book, it's important to note that I read the first book in this duology "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" probably about two years ago. Maybe three years ago. With that being said, I could only remember snippets of that book which made reading this one so much harder. However, I was pretty determined to get this off of my TBR and move on from the duology.
Another important thing to note about these two books, which I won't go into that much, is how incredibly problematic they are. If you're turned off by the problematic points in books like "Twilight" by Stephanie Meyer, then I would completely steer clear of these books. (Though, if you've gotten to the second book then I assume you probably don't care too much, which is fine by me.)
With both of those things being said, I wouldn't say I completely hated the book. The writing is simplistic, but stylized in an interesting (albeit sometimes contrived) way. The characterization was a bit lacking and made them seem hollow, though not completely unlikable. I really wish Tucholke would have pushed the character development further and hadn't made every character so two-dimensional. Surprisingly, and this doesn't happen often, some of my favorite characters were minor characters such as Finch and Canto (though they aren't excluded from the criticism I have about the book being problematic and the characters being two-dimensional), they felt much more real than even the main character, Violet, does.
I don't want to give too many spoilers, but I don't want it to seem as though I'm trying to dissuade anyone from reading this series. It's very light and easy to get through, and surprisingly there are only a few slow parts I had to drag myself through.
The aspects I really enjoyed about this book were the dark, mysterious tone throughout the story and the use of urban legends that moved the characters from place to place. I love anything having to do with legends and folklore, and I'm glad that Tucholke decided to incorporate something like that into her novel.
All in all, I wouldn't call this book a waste of time or a failure at all. I think it experienced some minor drawbacks where the ending was concerned as I don't believe it wrapped up nicely, but I am definitely glad that I decided to finish this duology.

I think I enjoyed the sequel just as much as the first book in this mysterious, romantic and fun duology. Violet is a nice protagonist and once again I enjoyed listening to her narrating the story.
Whereas most of "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" took place at either the Citizen Kane or in Vi's home town Echo, this continuation reminds me more of a road trip book. A road trip that Violet, Neely, Sunshine and Luke go on to find River in the best case, and devil boy Brodie in the worst. They visit new, very atmospherical and ultimately creepy places I could just perfectly imagine in my head and also meet interesting new characters like Pine, Finch and Canto.
Personally, I also really appreciated the slight creep the story carries along. For someone actually not into overwhelmingly scary stuff like me, it was just the perfect amount of it.
Can I now talk about how much I just love River and Neely? I have never understood a protagonist's struggle caused by a love triangle so well as I did in this story. They're both a little rich-boy-arrogant and charming but that's it with the similarities. River is more of the typical bad boy, but not in the cliché version, absolutely not. Neely, though, is this sunshine I always picture wearing cute glasses even though I'm 99% sure he doesn't have any.
I love love loved the plot twist.
I loved the vibe of this novel.
The only reason this is not a 5 star-review is that I felt like I didn't only want more of the story, but actually would have needed it. With this, I don't only mean the open-ending, which was luckily not quite as open as I had feared, but the whole story somehow.

Oh and another thing bothering me (that will be a SPOILER):


To me it is not clear who Violet ends up with in the end. She's like "I won't give up on River" and all the while she chooses to rather spend her nights with Neely? I didn't get it, but maybe I'm just stupid. Or just too torn between the two of them to not being able to realise Violet's choice (if she made one, it's not like anyone ever talks about that love triangle...).

As we dance with the Devil tonight. ~Dancing with the Devil

I did not like this book as much as the first one. The beginning was OK but i don't think the characters from the first book would make the same decisions as they did in this book.

The ending was wretched and I wanted to slap violet in the face and ask he author why she left us with a cliffhanger. . . it just didn't make any sense!

I had no idea what was happening for most of this book. The only part I liked was... I actually don't know. It was a blur of events happening that I found hard to fit together.

Some points in the story had me on the edge of my seat, and the first chunk of the book was entertaining. Though as I reached the ending I found it inadequate. But I'm the type of person in which an ending makes or breaks the story.

Ehhh I don't really know how I feel about this book. Like, for a big part of it I felt like nothing really happened at all? They were just going around, driving places, looking for Brodie and River, and then picking up random people and taking them with them. The reveal at the end was pretty interesting, but it happened way at the end and it took so long to get there with nothing happening in the middle. With the first book, I felt like crazy things were happening every other page, and this one just felt very underwhelming. It was just average, really nothing special about it, in my opinion. I would have been okay with it ending with the first book, because nothing in this book resolved anything that happened, things still don't feel that resolved. But that's just me. Also, all of the information from Freddie's diary was really confusing and didn't seem to relate to the story at all, and was just added there for filler it seemed like. I don't know, I really don't know where I stand with this.