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The Ones We Burn by Rebecca Mix

31 reviews

radiantgeode's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.5

I don’t agree with the controversy surrounding these books, I suggest reading them yourself before judging by the reviews. 

That being said, I rated this book 3.5 stars. I just felt like something was missing from the story and the ending didn’t quite do it for me. I liked it enough that I finished it, I just feel like it had more potential and didn’t quite hit the mark. 

I liked the focus on found family and overcoming toxic familial relationships. The character’s background was interesting and building on their mental health gave them depth. 


Bonus: good lgbtq+ representation. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, War, Gore, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship

maris_lemons's review against another edition

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 against another edition

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

thethingwithfeathers's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful inspiring medium-paced

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

4.5

Found family, queer, magic, </ lesbians with a happy ending, other queer couples with an intuited happy ending >

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Violence

Content warnings: main character deals with parental and sibling abuse and has complex ptsd

omnisyncd's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Toxic friendship, Body horror, War, Child death, Death, Abandonment, Gore, Child abuse, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Alcohol, and Animal death

Minor: Sexual content

lovelymisanthrope's review against another edition

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

linnea1801's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective 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

This book is sooo good!!!! It’s a story about overcoming abuse and trauma, it’s beautifully written and it’s gay so it’s a ten out of ten in my books. Also I just want to give Ranka a hug, she deserves it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Violence, War, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Genocide, Hate crime, and Pandemic/Epidemic

solari's review against another edition

Im not sure which publisher looked at this and thought it should be printed. An interesting concept done so terribly poorly, the politics are handwaved in a book that should be stuffed to the brim.  The characters are thin and poorly developed at best, the plot is bland, the magic and underlying racism just gave me a headache. It wasnt worth my time to finish even as a joke. I dont know if I should be more disappointed in the author or the publisher themselves for letting this see the light of day.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, War, and Violence

The book is so poorly written I dont know if the racism is intentional or simply incedental.

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