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Christina’s level of perception seems significantly lower in this book, even at the beginning. Later in the book there’s a reason for it, but at the start we’re expected to believe she’s the same when she clearly isn’t. The boys are finally beginning to recognise the issues with the Shevvingtons, but only when they choose to.
Again, this book was relevant to the title, as fire was a recurring (and somewhat obsessive) theme or mention throughout the book. Similarly, it’s impossible to go a few pages without hearing about Christina’s “special multi-coloured hair��. It would be one thing if her hair turned out to have magic powers and saved them all, but it didn’t. It’s just hair, and talking about it so incessantly gets tedious quite fast.