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audreykerr 's review for:
The Burning
by Laura Bates
Ehh... It tried but it was not what I expected.
I think I had this on my radar because of a recommendation for a book about Scottish witches, but that ended up being a smaller part of the story than I had hoped. Even the attempt of mirroring witch persecution to women in the modern day fell flat.
I felt disconnected about the book being set in Scotland given the main subject matter of "revenge porn" and the legality of that here. At the end of the book you find out at the end it's set April/May 2017 (published in 2019). Legislation making sharing intimate photos of someone without their consent came into force July 2017, however since late March 2017 posters highlighting the new law were everywhere. I saw these posters every day for months and you're telling me that it never came up in response to any of it?
There was also a weird choice from the narrator to have a Scottish accent for Maggie in the past but not change it from her English one for any other character...
I think I had this on my radar because of a recommendation for a book about Scottish witches, but that ended up being a smaller part of the story than I had hoped. Even the attempt of mirroring witch persecution to women in the modern day fell flat.
I felt disconnected about the book being set in Scotland given the main subject matter of "revenge porn" and the legality of that here. At the end of the book you find out at the end it's set April/May 2017 (published in 2019). Legislation making sharing intimate photos of someone without their consent came into force July 2017, however since late March 2017 posters highlighting the new law were everywhere. I saw these posters every day for months and you're telling me that it never came up in response to any of it?
There was also a weird choice from the narrator to have a Scottish accent for Maggie in the past but not change it from her English one for any other character...