I didn't feel any sense of urgency in this effort, and there was a lot of mother-daughter arguing that didn't seem to move the story forward. The end certainly has a cool twist, but overall this story moved slowly and I didn't feel much of a sense of urgency to uncover what was going on.

I love young adult mystery thrillers. This one had a lot of twists and turns I didn’t see coming, and I loved the mysterious aspect.

**2.5 stars**

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the e-arc I received in exchange for my honest review ( sorry it’s late). Congrats to the author for a second book.

I think I expect every young adult book I read to be as good as The Grace Year or The Hunger Games and I’m always disappointed when they aren’t. I really liked the idea behind this but overall the book was missing something for me and I think it was empathy or caring about Margot. I just didn’t which made it hard to care about the rest of the crazy, outlandish story.

I haven’t read the authors very popular book, The Wilder Girls yet and while I did not care for Burn Our Bodies Down I’ll still probably give that one a chance as I already own it.

Burn Our Bodies down brings the haunting, creep, sapphic horror! It has: complex family dynamics, small town weirdness, and a mix of mystery, thriller, horror that leaves the reader unsettled!

Oh, I liked this one. There's so much fury in it.

I'll admit that I was surprised by the reason behind everything and...I guess it wasn't quite what I hoped it would be? But I still liked it once I realized what was going on.

I do admit that I'd like to have known some of the characters we never got to know (that will make sense if you read it) - very curious to know *who* they were inside.

But a good read!

This was a creepy mystery that kept me guessing. And the twist so was unique! I love anything Rory Powers puts out at this point.

I really did enjoy this one! It pulled me in from the very beginning, and I was compelled to continue reading throughout the book. However, the whole climax felt a bit rushed as well as a smidge anticlimatic, so I was left feeling a little sad by that.

This book is about family trauma and unhealthy relationships. The MC has an unhealthy/abusive/gaslighting relationship with her mother and thus seeks out more family and ends up with her unhealthy/abusive/gaslighting grandmother. She grows up in an unhealthy relationship, so it is not surprising that she continually makes bad choices and does not form healthy bonds, but that does not make it fun to read about. The book is not very fast paced and most of the time is spent of the family relationships and not on the “mystery” of the farm and her family. This changes quickly around 80% and the explanation felt tacked on and didn’t really feel like it fit with the overall book to me. I almost gave it 2 stars since it was so unpleasant to read, but then gave it three since the relationships were unhealthy, so there should be no reason it would be fun to read. All in all, not really horror except at the very end, but even then, there is little build of suspense or imagery, and the corn is deeply underused as a standard horror image.

This book proves that family keeps secrets and sometimes they are better left covered up.

I was thinking Margot was just going to discover that her family weren't good people, not what ended up happening. Her family secrets are on a whole different level. Sure her mom wasn't perfect, but granny was a little scary. And that farm house? It screams Children of the Corn.

I wasn't expecting the ending of this one and I wasn't expecting the plot twist. Very well written and the reader will be questioning everything to the end. I will say the book was very drawn out. While I loved the writing I felt like it was longer than it should have been.

I gave this a four out of five stars, it's different from what I have read. Another good read by Rory Power. I liked the characters in this, and I liked that you didn't know how to believe. I liked how the main character wanted to know where she came from. Her mom should have just sat her down and talked to her but than there wouldn't have been this whole book.

Rory has truly outdone herself in Burn Our Bodies Down. I thought Wilder Girls was a work of brilliance and this new novel is simply another example of her masterful artwork.

I’m unsure how I feel about this one. It was weird…yet I felt the need to keep reading. I’ve seen mixed reviews and although I didn’t love it, it did keep me entertained.

My first time reading this book and this was a beautiful book. Very creepy and amazing. I never read anything like this and can’t wait for the next book.

I was so excited about this book because I loved Rory Power’s other book but I could not get into this one.

I am sorry for the inconvenience but I don’t have the time to read this anymore and have lost interest in the concept. I believe that it would benefit your book more if I did not skim your book and write a rushed review. Again, I am sorry for the inconvenience.

This book was quite a page turner and kept me guessing until the very end! This was so much more than I was expecting from a YA book - and the ending was so satisfying!

I feel like Rory Power swings for the fences. Some of the lines in here were just super powerful and gut punches and I think I get what she's going for? But the actual execution of the plot, specifically the cause of all of it and what was actually happening was a bit...off.

Power knows how to pull off teen horror and she delivers in her sophomore novel. BURN OUR BODIES DOWN had me on edge the entire time, questioning Margot’s sanity, the sanity of those around her, and my own. This was one of those books where you finish and you want to immediately start rereading. The narrative leaves you haunted.

This one wasn't for me. I didn't enjoy the fragmented writing style, and the plot did not provide enough intrigue for me to get past it.

I requested this book because I enjoyed this author's first book, Wilder Girls, however, for me, this book fell flat.

However, I cannot give a complete review since it has been so long since I read it. Perhaps, I guess, my most poignant remark was that this book wasn't one that particularly stuck in my brain.