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Burn Our Bodies Down
by Rory Power
Disclaimer: I received this audiobook from netgalley and the publisher. Thanks! All opinions are my own.
Book: Burn Our Bodies Down
Author: Rory Power
Book Series: Standalone
Rating: 1/5
Diversity: lesbian main character
Recommended For...: horror fans, young adult lovers
Publication Date: July 7, 2020
Genre: YA Horror
Recommended Age: 16+ (language, gaslighting, slight romance/sexual content, gore, violence, death)
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Pages: 352
Synopsis: Ever since Margot was born, it’s been just her and her mother. No answers to Margot’s questions about what came before. No history to hold on to. No relative to speak of. Just the two of them, stuck in their run-down apartment, struggling to get along.
But that’s not enough for Margot. She wants family. She wants a past. And she just found the key she needs to get it: A photograph, pointing her to a town called Phalene. Pointing her home. Only, when Margot gets there, it’s not what she bargained for.
Margot’s mother left for a reason. But was it to hide her past? Or was it to protect Margot from what’s still there?
The only thing Margot knows for sure is there’s poison in their family tree, and their roots are dug so deeply into Phalene that now that she’s there, she might never escape.
Review: This was literally the worst book I read in 2020. The book was horribly paced and the build up to the book took 80% to get to. There was no horror moments, the subplot was too on-the-nose, and the book spent too much time on useless dialogue than on making a creepy atmosphere. The conclusion was lackluster and I literally begged people for the ending to avoid listening to this book anymore. The author should have focused her time in creating the atmosphere and in creating moments that show the true twist at the end instead of it all coming out at the last 20% of the book. I will say that the narrator did great with the book and did great to try to create the missing creepy atmosphere, but she couldn’t carry the weight of the book that the author dumped on her.
Verdict: It needed a lot of work.
Book: Burn Our Bodies Down
Author: Rory Power
Book Series: Standalone
Rating: 1/5
Diversity: lesbian main character
Recommended For...: horror fans, young adult lovers
Publication Date: July 7, 2020
Genre: YA Horror
Recommended Age: 16+ (language, gaslighting, slight romance/sexual content, gore, violence, death)
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Pages: 352
Synopsis: Ever since Margot was born, it’s been just her and her mother. No answers to Margot’s questions about what came before. No history to hold on to. No relative to speak of. Just the two of them, stuck in their run-down apartment, struggling to get along.
But that’s not enough for Margot. She wants family. She wants a past. And she just found the key she needs to get it: A photograph, pointing her to a town called Phalene. Pointing her home. Only, when Margot gets there, it’s not what she bargained for.
Margot’s mother left for a reason. But was it to hide her past? Or was it to protect Margot from what’s still there?
The only thing Margot knows for sure is there’s poison in their family tree, and their roots are dug so deeply into Phalene that now that she’s there, she might never escape.
Review: This was literally the worst book I read in 2020. The book was horribly paced and the build up to the book took 80% to get to. There was no horror moments, the subplot was too on-the-nose, and the book spent too much time on useless dialogue than on making a creepy atmosphere. The conclusion was lackluster and I literally begged people for the ending to avoid listening to this book anymore. The author should have focused her time in creating the atmosphere and in creating moments that show the true twist at the end instead of it all coming out at the last 20% of the book. I will say that the narrator did great with the book and did great to try to create the missing creepy atmosphere, but she couldn’t carry the weight of the book that the author dumped on her.
Verdict: It needed a lot of work.