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thelifeoflaura 's review for:
The Burning
by Laura Bates
There’s nothing to trace Anna back to her old life. Nothing to link her to the ‘incident’.
At least that’s what she thinks … until the whispers start up again. As time begins to run out on her secrets, Anna finds herself irresistibly drawn to the tale of Maggie, a local girl accused of witchcraft centuries earlier. A girl whose story has terrifying parallels to Anna’s own…
Teenage years SUCK. They suck even more when you make a mistake with a boy you like and are scared to be humiliated by (and he ends up humiliating you any way).
This is a powerfully moving story about feeling alone, feeling scared to speak up and a school doing an awful job of protecting the children in it’s care (punishing the victim, so the ‘girls will know this behaviour is inappropriate’, rather than punishing the students that are sharing, bullying and harassing Anna.
It’s a story that is probably too common today and it shows Anna finding the courage to finally speak up and speak back to the people who are belittling her, calling her a slut or a whore. About finding friendship and fighting for it. It’s so powerful and so moving, a call to action about the implication of sexism. It’s brilliant. So brilliant.
At least that’s what she thinks … until the whispers start up again. As time begins to run out on her secrets, Anna finds herself irresistibly drawn to the tale of Maggie, a local girl accused of witchcraft centuries earlier. A girl whose story has terrifying parallels to Anna’s own…
Teenage years SUCK. They suck even more when you make a mistake with a boy you like and are scared to be humiliated by (and he ends up humiliating you any way).
This is a powerfully moving story about feeling alone, feeling scared to speak up and a school doing an awful job of protecting the children in it’s care (punishing the victim, so the ‘girls will know this behaviour is inappropriate’, rather than punishing the students that are sharing, bullying and harassing Anna.
It’s a story that is probably too common today and it shows Anna finding the courage to finally speak up and speak back to the people who are belittling her, calling her a slut or a whore. About finding friendship and fighting for it. It’s so powerful and so moving, a call to action about the implication of sexism. It’s brilliant. So brilliant.