#130 in Horror
The Burning Girls
- 352
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
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Our view
Dark, tense village horror: in “The Burning Girls” a vicar and her teenage daughter arrive in a parish where an old crime still festers. Some readers find the many mysteries neatly tied up, with surprises kept for the end; others feel there is too much going on, or find the prose choppy and the characters flat. It has the atmosphere of a cursed country church, and that atmosphere is what some readers recommend it for.
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About the book
The Burning Girls is a 2021 horror novel by British author C. J. Tudor. It was published in 2021 by Michael Joseph. The novel follows Jack Brooks, a reverend who moves into a new parish with her teenage daughter Flo to face a series of disturbing events, and a gruesome local legend that seems linked with the murder of two teenage girls 30 years previously.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.5 across 148 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 50% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Horror average of 7.5. That is how 7.5 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.4 | 5 | 3% |
| Hardcover | 7.5 | 143 | 97% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Burning Girls?
It has 352 pages — shorter than 68% of the ranked books in Horror.
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