Nowhere Burning is the kind of book that leaves you in constant suspense, waiting for the next bad thing to happen as the world continues to get darker with each page. I was left with a lot of questions while I was reading – how awful is this monstrous movie star really, why are we following a documentary filmmaker, how do all of these asides tie into the story and finally, what is the actual main story here? It meanders through multiple traumatized lives until everything suddenly clicks into place. From the start I found the writing clever and well crafted, always leaving you in suspense of what’s to come and what came before. The storytelling feels unique in that every part of the story has some horrible aura of events that were much worse than what’s happening on the page. That history leaves a sense of dread as you wait to see how far the author will delve into the past. Ultimately, it’s a story about people who are stuck in a warped reality, who don’t know how to interact with the real world, battling with the monsters that lurk without and within. 

Nowhere Burning

By Catriona Ward
Published by Tor Nightfire

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

Genre: Horror

This book was provided to me by NetGalley as an ARC in exchange for my honest, unbiased review.