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A review by elenabee123
The Ones We Burn by Rebecca Mix

3.0

If you're on TikTok as much as I am, you've probably heard some things about this title. My curiosity got the better of me and I decided to give it a shot. As a person of color, I was pleasantly surprised that the "reverse-racism" rumors were untrue. The conflict is between humans (of all races, genders, and sexualities) and witches (of all races, genders, and sexualities), not racial groups. Other reviewers have done a great job highlighting this with textual evidence, please take the time to read through their thoughts too.

As for the anti-Semitic accusations, I was not aware of them until I went to write this review. I cannot say with certainty whether it is a part of this book or not because I did not read it with that in mind; however, I looked into what others were saying about blood libel (a new concept for me) and was unable to find connections to it within the book based on the definitions I found in my research.