Review: Flash Point

Title: Flash Point
Author: Sneed B. Collard
Category: Fiction, Young Adult
Rating: 3.5/5
Summary: A high school sophomore who lives in a logging community finds himself disagreeing with just about everyone in town about why the nearby forest fires are so bad.

Review: YA novels with environmental themes can be hit or miss for me, but I enjoyed this one. Even though the environmental issues were central to the story, it didn't feel preachy at all. The details about birds of prey were so vivid. I'm too much of a chicken to watch nature TV shows about predators, but this book had me riveted and I didn't mind (too much) reading about the birds eating mice and rabbits. And the scenes with the wildfire had me reading at lightning speed to find out what happens at the end!