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The Ones We Burn by Rebecca Mix

17 reviews

kirstenf's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Classism, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Death, Child death, Hate crime, Murder, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Genocide, Religious bigotry, Colonisation, War, Pandemic/Epidemic, Torture, Death of parent, Terminal illness, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Kidnapping and Medical content

frantically's review against another edition

This book just didn't bring anything special to the table. We've read about witches, we've read about getting engaged to the prince and falling for his sister again, we've read about royals realizing their privilege and how they, too, have been exploited. We've read about

mentors who had to take parental roles dying

and

both sides showing their villainous traits

. This could've been redeemed with giving us something interesting to make the story stand out, be that beautiful writing or great characterisation but in the end, this will just end up in the trenches of stereotypical YA novels.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Blood, Death, Gore, Child death, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Medical content and Xenophobia

Minor: Death of parent

quinnpjd930's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Drug use, Grief, Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, and War

maris_lemons's review

adventurous dark emotional funny sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Violence, Death, Emotional abuse, and Gore

victoriousbookworm's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Gaslighting, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Body horror, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Vomit, Physical abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Death of parent

ahna's review

dark emotional inspiring fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Ranka's story was a good one to tell with exciting moments along the way but I kept getting lost with the over-the-top violence and with what seemed missing to me. In a world of witches and magic, so little was explained about either. I spent scenes with the covens wondering what made them witches past their nails and enhanced senses. Additionally there were so many graphic deaths I wondered if there were even any citizens of Isodal left at the end. Overall a cute story but I wished for better world building.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and Murder

lovelymisanthrope's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

I received this in a FairyLoot box.
"The Ones we Burn" follows Ranka, a woman who is tired of seeing all of the death and is ready to live out a quiet life with her coven. Unfortunately, and unexpectedly, she is named Bloodwinn, and she is forced to be the next bride of the human kingdom. She travels to Isodal to make her coven proud, but she quickly discovers there is something very sinister going on, as witches keep being discovered murdered.
I was just not invested in this story. I was bored throughout the novel, and never really connected with Ranka as a character, which is something I always appreciate, and need in fantasy books. I was excited by the premise, but ultimately, I was disappointed by the execution.
I will keep Rebecca Mix on my radar, but I am not too terribly interested in reading more from Rebecca at this time. I do think this book has an audience, and I encourage you to give it a read if it sounds appealing! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Murder

ctara2123's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Grief

immovabletype's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Murder, Child death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Violence, Body horror, Death, Gaslighting, Gore, Child abuse, Animal death, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Death of parent, Bullying, and Classism

Minor: Medical content and Alcohol

strawberrytheauthor's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

This book was so much better than I could’ve imagined. I went into completely blind and fell in love! I am going to have a massive book hangover after. 

I am only left with one question? How is the Sunra line going to continue if both siblings are gay? I mean yeah adoption but that could be a lot of political unrest. 

This book in three words is Queer, Zombie, Betrayal. It has enemies, to friends, to lovers, to enemies, to lovers and just classic friends to lovers. 

The writing is so wonderful my only critique is it uses the phrase “bile rose to her throat” and others like that far too many times. Other than that it had so many fabulous quotes that just hit you to your core, my favorite being, “You useless lesbian.” 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Body horror, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Torture, Vomit, War, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Terminal illness, Abandonment, Blood, Death, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Medical content, Confinement, and Cursing

Minor: Cannibalism