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A review by bladebailey
Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris
dark
emotional
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
While staying in a remote lakeside cabin to create her latest painting collection, Rita faces terrifying phenomena and her own emotional turmoil.
Green Fuse Burning blends together achingly beautiful prose, descriptions of art pieces relating to the story, heavy subject matter like climate change and grief and suicidality, and the vicious, gnashing natural world to form a truly unsettling piece of literature. Rita struggles with the recent traumatic death of her father, her rapidly failing relationship with girlfriend Molly, alienation from her Mi'kmaq community, and mental illness all while buckling under the expectation to produce excellent art. Graphically violent imagery of gored animals and mycelium-infested burning women haunt Rita by day so that she paints them at night. While I sometimes struggle with true horror, Green Fuse Burning employs such gorgeous prose and raw dialogue in a single character study that I find it an exquisite contribution to the genre.
Green Fuse Burning blends together achingly beautiful prose, descriptions of art pieces relating to the story, heavy subject matter like climate change and grief and suicidality, and the vicious, gnashing natural world to form a truly unsettling piece of literature. Rita struggles with the recent traumatic death of her father, her rapidly failing relationship with girlfriend Molly, alienation from her Mi'kmaq community, and mental illness all while buckling under the expectation to produce excellent art. Graphically violent imagery of gored animals and mycelium-infested burning women haunt Rita by day so that she paints them at night. While I sometimes struggle with true horror, Green Fuse Burning employs such gorgeous prose and raw dialogue in a single character study that I find it an exquisite contribution to the genre.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief, Animal death, and Gore