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A review by whatellisreadnext
Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
'I shouldn't have had to be strong. Not like that. I should have been able to break. Maybe one day all that strength can just be a gift my mother gave me, and not a tool I used to survive her. But I don't think it's today.'
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It has always been just Margot and her mother. Living in a run down apartment and barely scraping by. She asks and asks about her father, whether they have any family at all, to be shut down and iced out by her mother. Until one day, she stumbles upon a photograph, pointing her towards a town called Phalene...
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You know that feeling when you're excited about a book for so long, that when you finally read it, it can't possibly live upto your expectations but then it's even better than you could ever have dreamed? This was that book for me. Rory Power has cemented herself as one of my favourite authors, I enjoyed Wilder Girls but I absolutely devoured Burn Our Bodies Down.
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I loved Margot as a character, I often find it hard to read from a teenage perspective, but she was strong and brave and so unapologetically herself. I thought the LGBTQ+ representation was really well done; Margot is gay but there isn't any romance, it is just who she is.
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I couldn't have guessed the twist even if I'd tried, I often find with YA fiction that it can be quite patronising, feeding you all the answers, this wasn't like that at all.
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My recommendation for you, is to go into this one as blind as possible. If you love a family drama drenched in unexplainable circumstances, then you're in for a treatš„
.
It has always been just Margot and her mother. Living in a run down apartment and barely scraping by. She asks and asks about her father, whether they have any family at all, to be shut down and iced out by her mother. Until one day, she stumbles upon a photograph, pointing her towards a town called Phalene...
.
You know that feeling when you're excited about a book for so long, that when you finally read it, it can't possibly live upto your expectations but then it's even better than you could ever have dreamed? This was that book for me. Rory Power has cemented herself as one of my favourite authors, I enjoyed Wilder Girls but I absolutely devoured Burn Our Bodies Down.
.
I loved Margot as a character, I often find it hard to read from a teenage perspective, but she was strong and brave and so unapologetically herself. I thought the LGBTQ+ representation was really well done; Margot is gay but there isn't any romance, it is just who she is.
.
I couldn't have guessed the twist even if I'd tried, I often find with YA fiction that it can be quite patronising, feeding you all the answers, this wasn't like that at all.
.
My recommendation for you, is to go into this one as blind as possible. If you love a family drama drenched in unexplainable circumstances, then you're in for a treatš„