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What Fire Brings, by Rachel Howzell Hall

Cover for _What Fire Brings_, showing a burning maple leave and a burning flower (probably a rose), over a dark background, where the burning parts meet at the center of the cover and the shape of the flames and smoke forms a partial silhouette of a face; The book title, overlaid on the image, is in white letters that seem to have been singed by the fire in places.

After this cover caught my eye, the blurb intrigued me, and since my friend Robin Bradford has often mentioned her love of this author’s work, it was a given I would request an ARC.

Beware: rape; gaslighting; torture; dissociative fugues; depression.

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Tags: 2020s, 9.00 out of 10, ARC, Black protagonist, book review, Contemporary Thriller, First person, present tense, mental health issues, Rachel Howzell Hall, rape in fiction, unreliable narrator

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