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Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris

28 reviews

papercraftalex's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Green Fuse Burning is so creepy, but somehow so inspiring and hopeful. It offers excellent commentary on race, art, death, and nature and how they all intertwine. It so powerfully explores depression and grief and why we stay in toxic relationships. I recommend it to everyone, even people who aren't usually fans of horror!
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bdingz's review against another edition

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dark reflective tense
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

A welcome addition to the “mushroom horror” canon. I love bogs, I love rot, I love unsettling rabbits.
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tori_ishhh's review

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4.5

This is a memorable book that will be on my mind for a while, I know it. Rita’s disconnect to her culture and family, feeling separate from everything and everyone, while deeply longing for connection are all too familiar. 
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anarcho_cutie's review against another edition

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dark reflective sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I liked the story line and the messages about grief, suicidal ideation, and climate catastrophe. But I wish it was longer so some of the characters and relationships backstories could be developed a little more. 
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coralkeef's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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foldingthepage_kayleigh's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

The novella expertly blends themes of horror and grief together. You can just feel the tendrils of alienation wrap around you and pull you down into Rita’s psyche.
But by the end, you come out the other side in reconciliation with life and death, and how despite your dissociation, your depression, Creator loves you and you are always at home on the land.


Overall, I liked this novella and found Rita relatable. The combination of eco-anxiety and Indigenous identity made for an engrossing read. Although the writing was a bit too literary and flowery for me, thus why not a full 5 star read for me.
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mossybookworm's review against another edition

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dark emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced
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  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

lush and beautiful. i really liked the focus on nature's cycles and how grief and nature and life and death are all connected and all inform each other. i liked the framing with the art pieces, but thought the end was a little rushed/thesis-statement-y - but frankly i resonate with the thesis statement so whole heartedly it gets a pass. 
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alanahcw's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious
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  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

 Incredible. A story of grief and healing that is at once haunting, powerful, and beautiful. I'm not usually a horror reader, and am so thankful I was given the chance to read this one. 
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kelsokake's review against another edition

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challenging dark reflective fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

I’m honestly not quite sure how I felt about this and part of that is probably because it took me a million years to find the time to get through it. It’s a very short novella that would honestly probably be best consumed in just one or two sittings rather than multiple. 

I will say if you are easily triggered by suicidal ideation or panic attacks, maybe stay away from this one. 

Tiffany Morris is an incredible writer - her prose is beautiful and she does an amazing job putting us in Rita’s headspace. Somehow all of Rita’s somewhat disconnected, larger than life thoughts all felt somewhat reasonable. I really and truly felt like i could see the lake and its surroundings. 

This novella had me feeling so many things that I don’t think I could actually put a name too, but I will definitely be keeping an eye on this author for future books! 
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jahnadv's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? N/A
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

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