Nowhere Burning - bookrastinating.com

Hardcover, 304 pages

Published by Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom..

Set in the unforgiving maw of the Rocky Mountains, Nowhere Burning is the latest harrowing novel from bestselling author Catriona Ward, perfect for fans of Riley Sager and the hit series Yellowjackets.

A refuge for lost children may also be their prison.

In the middle of the night, Riley pulls her younger brother Oliver out of bed, and the two run away from home. Riley is intent on joining a group of teenagers squatting in the abandoned ruins of an infamous movie star’s ranch, Nowhere. For actor Leaf Winham, Nowhere was a place to hide from his fame, and to hide his crimes―until a fire ravaged his home and exposed him as a murderer.

It is rumored that the ranch nestled in the peaks of the Rocky Mountains is now home to group of feral children, a place where adults cannot enter, and Riley hopes to find …

Set in the unforgiving maw of the Rocky Mountains, Nowhere Burning is the latest harrowing novel from bestselling author Catriona Ward, perfect for fans of Riley Sager and the hit series Yellowjackets.

A refuge for lost children may also be their prison.

In the middle of the night, Riley pulls her younger brother Oliver out of bed, and the two run away from home. Riley is intent on joining a group of teenagers squatting in the abandoned ruins of an infamous movie star’s ranch, Nowhere. For actor Leaf Winham, Nowhere was a place to hide from his fame, and to hide his crimes―until a fire ravaged his home and exposed him as a murderer.

It is rumored that the ranch nestled in the peaks of the Rocky Mountains is now home to group of feral children, a place where adults cannot enter, and Riley hopes to find a new family there. But the Nowhere Kids are fierce in defending their turf and their clan, and Riley quickly realizes that while she and Oliver may have left the devil they knew, this group is a new type of diabolical.

For something dark lives in the burned shell of Nowhere, something which asks a terrible price for sanctuary...

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Amber Herbert reviewed Nowhere Burning by Catriona Ward

A Suspense Lacking Tension and Vaulting Over the Inciting Incident

2 stars

By now, I should know better. While Catriona Ward has great ideas, she's never once landed for me. I'll admit to getting less than halfway through the first chapter. The kids are in a bad situation, but Riley's insistence that they leave NOW isn't brought on by an inciting incident. Unless the supposed inciting incident is a Peter Pan-esque figure coming to their window to deliver a map to Nowhere (which isn't enough of a break in status quo when I've hardly had time to sit with the characters beforehand). Not once did I feel mounting pressure. Neither did the opening pages and characters intrigue me. This is a classic case of "not for me". I'm not the target audience for Ward's work.