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The Burning

Laura Bates

3.74 AVERAGE

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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bestdressedbookworm's review

5.0

Five stars, Five stars, FIVE STARS.
This book is everything! I was shaking with murderous rage for so many pages of this book. The schools failure to not only protect and student from bullying but twice have the audacity to blame the student for actions that were not theirs!!!! I agree a little with obviously reach any person to not ever put yourself in that position BUT they are never the person that should be punished. And this mentality that if a girl is sexually active she is a slut, if a guy does it he is a hero needs to change!!! Why do guys not get slut shamed? Because girls don't do that kind of bullying to that level, yet guys seem to be ready to tear people down to make themselves look good, or to fill in their time because they have nothing better to do.
I remember high school, anyone claiming this story to be far fetched was lucky they never witnessed or was bullied themselves, this ubfortuabtly is a very accurate portrait of what can happen if its not stopped!
What I love about this book is how it uses 2 different time periods to show that lack of education still shows men to lead the order on punishing women, whether its for witchcraft or in a high school setting it does show that over the years we have progressed but no enough.
Highly recommend!
dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Loved the parallels between modern teen-hood and historical witch trials. "We are the granddaughters of the witches you couldn't burn." A quick, important read. 
emotional hopeful sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
challenging emotional informative reflective 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
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albie95's review

4.0
challenging emotional reflective
dark emotional inspiring tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious sad tense 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
challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective 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: Complicated