Good morning y'all
welcome to another reading vlog. So i've
been doing a little bit of these
reading vlogs specifically just for
books like one singular book and a lot
of people have been
enjoying them. So i am back with another
vlog that is being done
in that method and we are going to be
focusing on
Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power. So
this video is being done in partnership
with Underlined which is a part of the
Penguin Randomhouse family so i'd like
to say thank you to them
and i am super excited to pick this book
up.
So i am not that far in. My initial
thoughts
are i think this is going to be creepy. I
really do think this is going to be
creepy.
I am interested in the mother
daughter dynamic that I've already seen.
I think
that it's going to be explored a little
bit heavily in terms of like
generational trauma and
the mother-daughter relationship. Like
just
that aspect of any book is super
important to me
just because i relate to it a lot. And
her mother is strange
strange. So if you haven't ever
heard of Burn Our Bodies Down it's about
this girl named Margot and
she lives with her mother in this
apartment and they
have a very emotionally almost abusive
relationship
mother to daughter and she
wants to find out more about her mother.
She doesn't know anything about her
mother
at all. Her mother left her hometown and
she won't tell Margot anything about it
so i believe that Margot ends up
actually finding
a picture and she goes to her mom's
hometown and then it kind of just goes
from there and there's a reason why her
mom left.
So none of this has really been done in
vain
like there's a reason why she left and
Margot is going to find out those
reasons
and i believe that she ends up
connecting with her grandmother and her
grandmother
apparently is not all that she seems to
be. So i'm excited.
I am headed to a little private park
that i frequently visit sometimes and
see if i can get some reading done there
and then i'll be back with another
check-in.
 
 
One thing that i definitely would like
to point out about this book is the fact
that it is super
well written and super engaging. I feel
like i'm literally flying through it
which says a lot. I am such a critical
person when it comes to
pacing and the fact that rory power
threw
a twist in there at 85 pages
makes me feel like the rest of the book
is just going to fly by and it's going
to be so intriguing.
So this complex relationship
that Margot has with her mom really
resonates with me
personally i think because i have seen
firsthand the effects of what happens
when
we don't address generational trauma and
when we are not
having those open conversations with
people that are in our life especially
between parents and
children and you can kind of see this
dynamic that something
happened between Margot's mother and
her grandmother. Something about that
relationship is very very strange
and i think that Margot's mother wanted
to protect her from it but
in not being able to heal from her own
generational pain
she continued the same pattern and it
was a line that Margot had said like
how could you have gone through what you
went through and then still turn around
and do the same thing to me.
And that really speaks to the fact that
you want to break the cycle sometimes
but if you don't get the help to heal
from the pain that you suffer at the
hands
of cyclical trauma or generational
trauma you just
end up perpetuating it on and on and on
again and i think that really speaks to
just
Rory Power's ability to weave such an
important conversation
into what i'm guessing is going to be
a thriller. I am so
amazed at that and how powerful that
conversation can be
and i think for me too just as a mom
for me it is super important that
i have such a good relationship with my
daughter and anything that i have
experienced i don't continue that cycle
and perpetuate it on to her.
And i just i'm mind blown by the fact
that this was so easily incorporated
into
a thriller. So i'm gonna keep reading. I
don't know
what's gonna happen. I don't know where
we're gonna go with this but like i said
i'm gonna keep it as spoiler-free as
possible
but i'm just at the point where Margot
has now
returned home not typically not her home
but her mother's hometown and that's
where
real things started popping off when she
went home to go see
her grandmother or attempt to find her
grandmother. And there are other
teens that are involved in this so i'm
going to be really interested in seeing
like the
friendship dynamic. There is a girl
named Jess that's involved right now and
i'm not sure what role she's necessarily
going to play but
i'll be very intrigued. So i'm going to
keep reading and then i will do another
check-in later. So
i'm doing another check-in and i
am about 186
pages into it now and i am so
i feel so bad for Margot. I genuinely feel
so sorry for her because
i don't know how you go from being
in one household where there's like
emotional abuse going on to move into
another household
with her grandmother who's just as
off the rocker as her mother.
And there's something going on with this
family like her grandmother knows stuff
like knows some serious stuff
about some things that have happened and
i don't want to say i don't want to say
but it's crazy that it also like the
town
feels like they're kind of in on it in a
sense that the town knows that something
has happened
and something has been strangely
happening but they can't figure out what
it is.
And now she's being enlisted by someone
in the town to kind of help out to
figure out what's going on because
her grandmother just won't tell the
truth. So her grandmother is pretty
gifted
at lying apparently so now i'm in this
predicament as a reader where i'm like i
don't know
to trust because i feel like there's a
lot of people in on this situation
and i don't know who knows and who
doesn't know but it's
really good. I'm really enjoying...I'm
really really enjoying it. I can't
believe i'm actually reading it this
fast
but i'm really enjoying it and i just
want to know
what has gone on and i was very
surprised. I
was thinking about like what what horror
movies and books and stuff is this does
this remind me of
and i instantaneously thought of two
things Carrie
because the mother-daughter dynamic, the
weirdness that goes on there
and then Children of the Corn. If you
haven't
seen either one of those do it
watch them and you'll get exactly what i
mean. But i'm going to
make lunch and i will check in
once i get to another point of checking
in. Good morning.
I literally have been reading this book
all night and i just got up and i want
to read more of it.
So i'm about 243 pages in
and i
am so freaked out
about the fact that there's so much that
has been revealed in regards to
her mother and her grandmother. I
do not trust her grandmother. There's
something going on there. I can't figure
out what it is
but i know that there's something
there's something wrong.
So i'm gonna keep reading
and possibly figure this out and see if
Margot can put the pieces of the puzzle
together
and see why there
are these people like why does this family
all look alike?
That's probably one of my biggest
questions. They all look alike
and something about that is weird but
i'm going to keep reading
and then i'm going to do another
check-in.
 
I am back with my final clip for burn
our bodies down by Rory Power
and holy crap
i think i am completely mind blown about
what i just read.
I actually am not even sure what i just
read.
I can't even really fully explain what
has happened without spoiling this book
and i don't want to spoil this book but
everything that i
thought i was getting right about this
book i actually got completely wrong.
So Rory Power i just want to know like
where she even got these ideas from
because my goodness i would have never
in a million years thought
that this book was going to be headed in
that direction.
And it took a complete twist a complete
left and there was no way i could have
ever guessed that any of the stuff that
happened in this book was going to
happen.
I would like to say that her writing is
phenomenal.
I am super particular i think i said
this in an early clip i'm super
particular about
pacing when it comes to authors because
i read a lot.
I am a librarian so i'm always like i'm
kind of on like
crunch time when it comes to reading
materials
and i just don't like when books lag
and this definitely didn't do that. She
had me
so engrossed on every single page
wondering
what was going to happen. I just had this
whole feeling that
i couldn't trust anybody i couldn't
really get attached to anybody
and then when we get back to like the
final
probably about 50 so pages where
everything's unraveling
and you're seeing everything from
Margot's eyes and you're seeing her put
the pieces of the puzzle together.
You're completely mind blown because
there was no
hint that this is where this book was
going to go
and i was just
it was so good. This book is so good. I
keep saying it and i will say it again
2020 has been such a rough year
but books that are coming out in 2020
have been golden and this
is no different and this is not even my
go-to
genre. That's what's so crazy. This is not
my go-to genre
and i loved it so hands down
i ended up giving it five stars. I will
be checking out
everything that Rory Power writes
because if it's anything like this with
these
epic plot twists and these brilliant
characterizations and these brilliant
conversations. I know i talked about it
earlier as well where
this is like a mystery thriller
and some other elements that i won't say
that
actually discusses tough topics. We're
looking at
this relationship dynamic between a
mother a grandmother
and a daughter and how it's toxic
and it's unhealthy and how there has
been no healing
and that conversation is so seamlessly
woven into the text you it doesn't feel
awkward. It just felt
like a natural discussion and i was not
expecting that. I was not expecting that
at all.
I feel like i need to reread this book
and that's crazy and i'm not like that
with
very many books where i instantaneously
want to reread
because i feel like now i need to go
back through and retrace Margot's steps
and see if there was any hints
of where this book was going to go. I
think that we got a glimpse at
something of what could have been a
friendship but
there were some elements thrown in
between Margot and Jess
that maybe it didn't happen the way we
want it to happen well it didn't happen
the way that i thought it was going to
happen
but i did like the relationship dynamic
between the two of them
and how just really wanted to be a
support system for Margot no strings
attached
and i liked that this was
all about identity. This was all about
identity and wanting to know where she
came from
and letting her family determine her
identity and
she realizes at the end that maybe she
shouldn't have done that
because when she finds out some stuff.
It's
it's weird so if you have not read Burn
Our Bodies Down
i highly highly highly highly highly
recommend it. It is
so good it oh i can't stop
gushing about it. It was really just that
good y'all so if you haven't
read it please please please check it
out. Like i said i will be looking at
other works by Rory Power and
oh so good so good. All right y'all if
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