Ever since Margot was born, it’s been just her and her mother. No answers to Margot’s questions about what came before. No history to hold on to. No relative to speak of. Just the two of them, stuck in their run-down apartment, struggling to get along.
But that’s not enough for Margot. She wants family. She wants a past. And she just found the key she needs to get it: A photograph, pointing her to a town called Phalene. Pointing her home. Only, when Margot gets there, it’s not what she bargained for.
Margot’s mother left 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.
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4/5 stars
This was super hard to put down!
The story follows Margot, a seventeen year old girl living with her mother in a run-down apartment. Margot doesn’t have any other family that she knows of, and her mother isn’t what you would call maternal by any stretch of the imagination. One day Margot finds out that her mother does have a family and a hometown and sets off to uncover her mother’s past and the family she never knew existed, but it turns out to be more than she bargained for.
I had an idea of what the twist entailed pretty early on, but that didn’t stop this from being engaging in the least. I had trouble putting this book down. It was fast-paced and super creepy. Highly recommend!
Burn Our Bodies Down will be available July 7th, 2020.
I received this advanced readers' copy from Random House Children's and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
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