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Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power

16 reviews

eeriekeri's review

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

Horrifying, claustrophobic.

The supernatural, the gore. It's nothing compared to the choking feeling that suffuses every conversation between mother and daughter.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Gore, Child death, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Murder, Vomit, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, and Blood

Minor: Pregnancy and Abortion

cthulhussy's review

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, and Child abuse

Moderate: Abandonment and Vomit

Minor: Abortion and Body horror

bethebluebook's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Murder, Gaslighting, Vomit, and Blood

grrrlbrarian's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

I almost hit DNF about halfway through and kind of wish I had. Margot as a narrator is so melodramatic about everything, it made it difficult to care about anything in the story. The audiobook narrator was also giving it 100% on the emotional scale at all times, which again just felt like too much. I enjoyed the premise and the building tension through the story, as well as the lush and sometimes disturbing descriptions. The ending just felt like it belonged to a different story, there were too many loose ends and questions still remaining for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Blood, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Murder, Body horror, Death, and Vomit

Moderate: Pregnancy, Violence, Gun violence, and Abandonment

Minor: Abortion and Confinement

christinacarrie's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.25

I have to be honest I got to chapter 8 of this book in November and I had to put it down. I was not having a good time and i thought about dnf’ing it but I wasn’t ready to give up on it. I finally picked it back up in May (yes it took 6 months) and damn if it didn’t finally pick up around chapter 10. It was exactly the weirdness that I loved about Rory Powers’ book Wilder girls and damn if the end of this book wasn’t a wild ride. Definitely check trigger warnings of this book before you read it cause the fires are just the beginning of the insanity in this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Vomit, Emotional abuse, and Violence

Minor: Abortion and Gaslighting

mischabkits's review

challenging dark mysterious sad slow-paced

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

4.0

Really good story, amazing emotion. The only reason I wouldn’t give it 5 stars is because there were times that I found it difficult to understand what I was reading. Loved it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment and Murder

Moderate: Grief, Vomit, Blood, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Cursing, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Abortion

mapscitiesandsongs's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

 “But you’re stronger than me, Margot. You are. You bore what I never could.” And the thing is, I know she means it like praise. Like pride. But it isn’t to me. Because yes, I bore this. I fixed it, but there’s a voice in my head, one I’ve never really heard before, and it says, I shouldn’t have had to.”

Wow, what a book. I have a hard time collecting my thoughts and actually reviewing this book. On one hand I enjoyed my reading experience. The atmosphere was just great and the story was intriguing. The portrayal of emotional abuse and gaslighting was just spectacular. That was the strongest part of the book. It was really hard to keep reading and I had to put the book down a few times. On the other hand, there were a few things that weren't that good. The characters were just mediocre. I really didn't care about any of them. So when

Tess and her family get killed.

I just felt nothing. Tess and Eli were just there but didn't really play a role in the end. It also quite bothered me how Rory Power actually alludes to things that don't ever matter. Like Margot's sexuality and the relationship that could have happened. It's like the author wanted to go down that route but in the end just didn't care and all that's left is a loose thread. Same with the relationship between Eli and Tess. What was the point? It I also thought that

Tess was actually alive when Officer Connors talkd about there being three bodies.

Another thing that felt quite strange was the pacing. The beginning and the end were quite fast-paced but the story just slowed down in the middle. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Murder, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Pregnancy

Minor: Abortion and Vomit

random19379's review

emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Murder, Abortion, Child death, Body horror, Torture, Confinement, Vomit, and Violence

brookey8888's review

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.25

This was weird. Like it was ok at first and it did get interesting, but I didn’t love how went. I also wish they made this scarier or more unsettling. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Blood, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Child death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, and Vomit

realalexmartin's review

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Vomit, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury