Disclaimer: An eARC/Audiobook was provided via Harper Collins International and Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review. The Thoughts, opinions & feelings expressed in the review are therefore, my own.

Okay; I really wanted to enjoy this seemingly creepy YA mystery – and I did to an extent. Burn Our Bodies Down was creepy, haunting and in the end, chaotic in way that did not endear it to me.

Burn Our Bodies Down had me intrigued right from the start – the moment I read the blurb and requested to review the audiobook – Yes, I have been listening to an insane amount of audiobooks recently thanks to the lockdown – but I also do think that the narration of an audiobook does have a strong effect on how I would like a book.

Which is one of the reasons that went against Burn Our Bodies Down – the narrator of the book was both shriek-y and shrilly – I literally spent more than half of my time either turning the volume up or down, the narration always went into extremes; either it was too soft or it was too loud and it affected my experience of the book as well.

Now coming to the book itself – I was really excited to read a creepy haunting YA Mystery with unexplained or even paranormal phenomenon that would not only awe me but also have me creeped out!


I wouldn’t exactly go into the plot itself – but the author has done a good job of portraying the anxiety, the fear and the confusion the protagonist goes through with her own mother; but also the eternal hope and faith that she feels when she thinks she has found family who actually wants her!

About 80% of the book is just a push and pull that the protagonist goes through in regards to her own feelings, her identity and her own decisions – and it is in the last 20% that the actual climax and the action actually occurs.

I really was in the mood for a creepily haunting storyline – but somehow this one just missed the mark when it came to the execution!



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