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fictitiouskayla 's review for:
The Last Thing to Burn
by Will Dean
I received an e-ARC of The Last Thing to Burn on NetGalley.
Synopsis: The Last Thing to Burn is about Thanh, a young Vietnamese woman who was manipulated into human trafficking with a promise of a better life. Her sister Kim-Ly is sent to the city to pay off her debt, and Thanh is sent to a farm.
After several years of abuse and rape, Thanh has a baby that she loves more than anything. With a mutilated foot, done years ago by Lenn, and being constantly monitored, Thanh has little hope of escaping.
Until a new woman is being held captive in the small cellar below the house, Thanh has a chance and she will do anything to free all three of them.
Review:
This book is very intense, each page more gripping than the last. Trying to grasp the life Thanh is forced to live everyday is too much to bare. Every time something happened I was asking myself, what would I do?
It’s a very dark story about human trafficking, abuse and rape. Amazingly enough there was always a glimmer of hope that shined through on each page.
It’s being compared to Misery and Room and I can definitely see the comparisons and feel like it’s an accurate statement. Though both of those books don’t channel human trafficking, they both involve some form of abuse, a disturbed captor, being held against there will and a confined living situation. I haven’t read those two books but I have seen the movies so I can’t speak to the books when I say that the difference is, The Last Thing to Burn really captures the feelings and thoughts of Thanh and painted an extremely vivid picture, so much so you really feel like you’re right there with her experiencing it all.
It’s a great psychological thriller, it’s less than 300 pages but it definitely doesn’t feel that way. Nothing is left out, it feels complete.
This is a 4/5 for me
Synopsis: The Last Thing to Burn is about Thanh, a young Vietnamese woman who was manipulated into human trafficking with a promise of a better life. Her sister Kim-Ly is sent to the city to pay off her debt, and Thanh is sent to a farm.
After several years of abuse and rape, Thanh has a baby that she loves more than anything. With a mutilated foot, done years ago by Lenn, and being constantly monitored, Thanh has little hope of escaping.
Until a new woman is being held captive in the small cellar below the house, Thanh has a chance and she will do anything to free all three of them.
Review:
This book is very intense, each page more gripping than the last. Trying to grasp the life Thanh is forced to live everyday is too much to bare. Every time something happened I was asking myself, what would I do?
It’s a very dark story about human trafficking, abuse and rape. Amazingly enough there was always a glimmer of hope that shined through on each page.
It’s being compared to Misery and Room and I can definitely see the comparisons and feel like it’s an accurate statement. Though both of those books don’t channel human trafficking, they both involve some form of abuse, a disturbed captor, being held against there will and a confined living situation. I haven’t read those two books but I have seen the movies so I can’t speak to the books when I say that the difference is, The Last Thing to Burn really captures the feelings and thoughts of Thanh and painted an extremely vivid picture, so much so you really feel like you’re right there with her experiencing it all.
It’s a great psychological thriller, it’s less than 300 pages but it definitely doesn’t feel that way. Nothing is left out, it feels complete.
This is a 4/5 for me