It’s about choosing which evils you can stand.” ― Bonfire

But everything that’s good for one person is probably bad for someone else. They think they can have the good without the bad. “ The problem is that people think in black and white. I was surprised at the depth of this book and the thoughtful prose. It reminds me that the more things change, the more they stay the same. This book is about bullying, secrets, corruption, memories, and forgiveness. “ Memories are like fire, and need only a little oxygen to grow.” ― Bonfire Her classmates have grown up and changed, but all Abby can remember is the past. Every person and place triggers unpleasant memories. Her homecoming is filled with painful reminders of her childhood, being mistreated by her father, and bullied by her awful high school classmates. She reluctantly returns to Barrens because her law firm is investigating a case. The narrator, Abby, has her inaugural trip home after fleeing the town a decade ago following her high school graduation.

It has a lot of character development, with flashbacks to the past so that the reader understands Abby William’s turmoil about coming home. The plot reminds me of the movie Erin Brokovich because it’s about a woman fighting a big company on an environmental issue in a small town, against all odds but, this book kicks it up a notch with an unreliable narrator, mean girls, a dark vibe and thriller twists. I jumped at the chance to read it when the publisher offered it to me. I have never watched the show, but I was drawn to the book because of its Hollywood connection. This book has a lot of hype because the author is the star of Netflix’s Jessica Jones series. “ Any self-help book in the world will tell you that you can’t just run your past away.” ― Bonfire With tantalizing twists, slow-burning suspense, and a remote rural town of just five claustrophobic square miles, Bonfire is a dark exploration of what happens when your past and present collide. Tasked with investigating Optimal Plastics, the town’s most high-profile company and economic heart, Abby begins to find strange connections to Barrens’s biggest scandal from more than a decade ago, involving the popular Kaycee Mitchell and her closest friends-just before Kaycee disappeared for good. Now working as an environmental lawyer in Chicago, she has a thriving career, a modern apartment, and her pick of meaningless one-night stands.īut when a new case takes her back home to Barrens, Indiana, the life Abby painstakingly created begins to crack. It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away all visible evidence of her small-town roots.

“ Some of us are out of place even when we are home.” ― Bonfire

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