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Title: Burn Our Bodies Down

Author: Rory Power

Narrator: Lauren Enzo

Rating: ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ .5

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This was my second Rory Power book, and it was enjoyable. There was a huge mystery to be uncovered, and the final big reveal was out of this world.

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The narrator was great with the female voices, but the male voices were terrible. I love how emotional she was with the narration. Her voice embodied all the feelings in the book perfectly and that was such a great addition to the listening experience.

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This story is really wild. It starts out normally with a girl trying to find out more about her extended family and where she’s from. We follow Margot from one city to another, and that’s when her life changes forever. She arrives at her mother’s hometown with a lot going wrong at the same time. There are so many questions and so many mysteries and so many secrets. Many strange things happened in this book, and the author did a good job of tying it all together.

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I wish I could change so many things about the ending. Overall, this is a really good book.

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Blurb:

“[A] deliriously creepy tale…that’ll keep your nightmares up at night.” –Melissa Albert, New York Times bestselling author of The Hazel Wood

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Wilder Girls comes a feverishly twisty thriller about a girl whose past has always been a mystery–until she decides to return to her mother’s hometown . . . where history has a tendency to repeat itself.

Ever since Margot was born, it’s been just her and her mother, struggling to get along. But that’s not enough for Margot. She wants family. She wants a past. And she may have just found the answer: A photograph, pointing her to a town called Phalene. Only, when Margot gets there, it’s not what she bargained for.

As soon as they see her face, everyone in town knows who Margot belongs to. It’s unmistakable–she’s a Nielsen. And when a mysterious girl who could be Margot’s twin is pulled from a fire, Margot realizes that her mother left Phalene for a reason. But was it to hide her past? Or was it to protect Margot from what’s still there?

The only thing Margot knows for sure is there’s poison in their family tree, and their roots are dug so deeply into Phalene that now that she’s there, she might never escape.