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A review by belleand_books
The Burning by Laura Bates
4.0
Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review. US edition out April.
“Girls are like marshmallows”
This is a great book about slut-shaming and women coming together in solidarity. It’s a social commentary piece on how boys should be held responsible and how it takes two to tango. It dives into the heartache and the social injustice that women face everyday just by being women.
The book opens with Anna moving to a new country and finding new friends. It’s pretty intriguing since you don’t know why she moved but it gets better as the pieces come together. What I will say is that most of her later problems in the book could have been avoided if her and her mum had a better relationship and they felt they could talk to each other.
It is nice to see Anna find friends and see the value in them, but I genuinely enjoyed Anna’s parallel to her subject for the history project-Maggie the maybe witch. They faced similar prejudice and to have Anna gain strength through Maggie’s story was interesting to see.
In the end, what killed this book for me was the way it was so easy for Anna to develop feelings for Robin. It wasn’t realistic and it took away from the story.
“We are the granddaughters of the witches you burned. And we’ve had enough”
“Girls are like marshmallows”
This is a great book about slut-shaming and women coming together in solidarity. It’s a social commentary piece on how boys should be held responsible and how it takes two to tango. It dives into the heartache and the social injustice that women face everyday just by being women.
The book opens with Anna moving to a new country and finding new friends. It’s pretty intriguing since you don’t know why she moved but it gets better as the pieces come together. What I will say is that most of her later problems in the book could have been avoided if her and her mum had a better relationship and they felt they could talk to each other.
It is nice to see Anna find friends and see the value in them, but I genuinely enjoyed Anna’s parallel to her subject for the history project-Maggie the maybe witch. They faced similar prejudice and to have Anna gain strength through Maggie’s story was interesting to see.
In the end, what killed this book for me was the way it was so easy for Anna to develop feelings for Robin. It wasn’t realistic and it took away from the story.
“We are the granddaughters of the witches you burned. And we’ve had enough”