#the burning girls

[gravesdiggers]

New picture of Rupert Graves as Simon Harper and Samantha Morton as Jack Brooks in The Burning Girls, from a review in The Guardian by Lucy Mangan

#Rupert Graves #Samantha Morton #The Burning Girls #Simon Harper

[kingslionheart]

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. That's why bad things happen to me. It is about the sins of my father. And my sins.

#I WILL GIF THIS ENTIRE SCENE BECAUSE IT HASN'T LEFT MY MIND SINCE I HAVE WATCHED IT YESTERDAY #david's performance was something else here #no one portrays christian guilt as this man does #he nails it every single time #and the way this character is SO alfred coded is making me cry even more #i will totally make parallels between aaron and alfred some day soon #but for the whole time it almost seemed like he was portraying alfred and it hit me SO FUCKING MUCH #the similiarities are so obvious #i fucking see you david #i saw what you were doing with the body language #and the fact that aaron is canonically queer?? #i already saw alfred TOO MUCH during the scenes and then this one scene happened and GOD #i died a thousand times #anyway the target audience of this gifset is ME #you are welcome #my gifs #the burning girls #aaron marsh #reverend jack brooks #david dawson #samantha morton

[lockwoodandconetflix]

alihadjiheshmati instagram story update

#ali hadji heshmati #ruby stokes #the burning girls #lockwood & co #lockwood cast

[rgnarocgifs]

DAVID DAWSON as Aaron Marsh The Burning Girls 1.02 (2023)

#david dawson gifs #david dawson #the burning girls #the burning girls gifs

[kbaker1431]

Seeing Rupert Graves act like such an asshole in 'The Burning Girls' is amazing because he sounds like such a posh snob and I love him anyway.

But it's also halarious because I can only ever see him as Greg Lestrade.

#the burning girls #greg lestrade #bbc sherlock #rupert graves

[cameronspecial]

Just watched The Burning Girls first episode on Paramount +. And I liked it a lot. It's very mysterious and Ruby Stokes absolutely slays, which is no surprise. I love Ruby's hair in it. I suggest it to everyone.

#the burning girls #ruby stokes #lockwood and co #lockwood & co

[noemyreads]

the burning girls - c. j. tudor

if you see the burning girls something bad will befall you

this was the third c. j. tudor book that i've read it so far, she still surprises me. love her.

rate: 5/5

pt review: garotas em chamas - c. j. tudor - by Noemy Moura Martins (substack.com)

#bookblr #livros #resenha #review #book #mystery #c j tudor #the burning girls #garotas em chamas

[beafarm]

I simply cannot resist media about Christianity and religion in general

#the burning girls #mrs davis #sister act #good omens #his dark materials #evil #midnight mass #devil in ohio #raised by wolves #🐝 talks tv

[daviddawsonsource]

DAVID DAWSON for SCHÖN MAGAZINE.

Photographed by Jacob McFadden. November, 2022.

#david dawson #mp promo #my policeman #mp #schon magazine #jacob McFadden #the burning girls #harry styles #michael grandage #emma corrin

[gravesdiggers]

First look at Rupert Graves in the new Paramount+ adaptation of C.J. Tudor's The Burning Girls, starring Samantha Morton and Ruby Stokes, streaming from October 19th.

#Rupert Graves #The Burning Girls #Samantha Morton #Ruby Stokes #Youtube

[kingslionheart]

if i had a nickel for every time david dawson played a socially awkward god-fearing pious queer closeted man, i would have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but i'm absolutely thriving over the fact that it happened twice

#david i owe you my life #the last kingdom #tlk alfred #the burning girls #aaron marsh #david dawson

[nata-ver]

The Burning Girls 2023

#The Burning Girls #Ruby Stokes

[lockwoodandconetflix]

rubystokess instagram story update

#ruby stokes #the burning girls #lockwood cast #lockwood & co

[rgnarocgifs]

DAVID DAWSON as Aaron Marsh The Burning Girls 1.02 (2023)

#david dawson #the burning girls #the burning girls gifs #david dawson gifs

[lifesarchive]

THE BURNING GIRLS by C. J. TUDOR (REVIEW)

quickly: a woman of the cloth relocates to small-town England and uncovers a long-kept community secret. (single mom with a repressed past and a rebellious teen daughter / creepy blair witch stick dolls / ghostly apparitions / family secrets turning into community secrets / rich men controlling local government / a random spree killer).

quaint, quiet English towns are some of the most dangerous places on Earth. this is what The Burning Girls confirms in a story that feels like the UK version of a Fear Street novel. the chapters are short and quick, often ending with a cliffhanger. ‘good vs. evil’ and ‘nature vs. nurture’ are major motifs in this story, sometimes stereotypically so, sometimes uninspired. i wish there was more thrill and horror… with the lore behind what a ‘burning girl’ represents, there was the potential to go so much further. while i love the author’s tone and style, the substance lacked.

★ ★ ★

more thoughts: SPOILERS!

Some personal context… I picked this book out based on a search I did for ’theological horror’. I was trying to decide whether or not I was going to read the non-fiction book “Heathen: Religion and Race in American History”. As I’m already reading a non-fiction book on Indigenous American history, ”Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America”, and I just completed the lengthy “The Books of Jacob”, I was hesitant to read another lengthy non-fiction book.

My thought process was… I can soothe my horror itch and my religious history itch by reading a book that combined both. If the book was intriguing enough, then I’d move on to Heathen by Kathyrn. I found several books that fell into the theological horror genre, and ‘Burning Girl’s’ was a newer one, so I picked it. Sadly, it did not inspire me to reach for non-fiction theological history. While not bad, it didn’t capture what was interesting about the religious lore of Sussex England that the title and cover art so openly refer to.

The title is what truly caught my eye: THE BURNING GIRLS. That, paired with the promise of uncovering church mysteries, pulled me in.

The story opens with Reverend Jack, short for Jacqueline, who is being informed that she is being relocated to a distant Sussex community after an unfortunate occurrence at her church in Nottingham. Essentially, she wasn’t able to save an abused child from their parents and was partially blamed when the parents murdered the child. 

She moves to Chapel Croft with her 15-year-old daughter, a small village where everyone knows everyone, and her arrival is big news. Immediately, both mother and daughter have separate encounters with appearances of ‘burning girls’, ghostly apparitions who appear to be on fire, and missing bodily limbs. Reverend Jack is coincidentally informed that the creepy stick dolls everywhere are to commemorate the girls and families burned during religious wars back in Olde England. She’s also informed that seeing a ghost of a burning girl is a warning of impending danger.

As the story goes on, Revered Jack’s back story is unfurled. She comes from an abusive home with a psychotic spree-killing brother who is responsible for the death of her husband (who was also a pastor). Just before her move, she was informed that her brother was released from prison. While she thinks she is evading him by moving to Chapel Croft, unbeknownst to her, he is ruthlessly and methodically making his way to her and leaving a trail of bodies in his wake.

All the characters are dealing with some form of ‘good vs. evil’ struggle, most evident in Reverend Jack’s brother, who seems to have a voice within that he compels him to do evil deeds. There are also several references to the great question of whether or not people can be born bad, and what it means to be bad vs. being a good person doing a bad thing. To be honest, the word count could’ve been better spent exploring the wild history of the burning girls. 

Anyways, fast forward past two girls who went missing long ago being discovered in a well, the dead body of a missing priest being found buried under the church, a devious teenage boy found living with the dead body of his mother, and that same boy plotting the killing of Revered Jack’s daughter simply to please his equally devious killer girlfriend. Oh yeah, I forgot, did I mention that randomly, in the background of the main events, Reverend Jack’s brother has been traveling the countryside on foot and killing anyone who crosses his path?

The story ends in the loud gory cacophony of noise and violence that most B-level thrillers tend to end in. The psycho-killer teens confront Revered Jack and her daughter in the church for the big climax, which results in Jack killing the teens, and the church being set on fire in the process. At the last moment, just before Reverend Jack is engulfed by the flames, her psycho-killer brother rescues her. The people he killed to get to her kind of fade into the background as if his character’s sole purpose was to represent the bad person who does a good thing (in contrast to Reverend Jack being the good person who does a bad thing).

The miasma of “Good and Evil” that this story exists in is muddier than it is inspiring. Too many angels and devils in this garden if you ask me. And again, the gem, the burning girls, barely get any page time! Three stars. Not horrible, but not anything I am compelled to recommend. That said, I’d still love to try THE CHALK MAN, by this author, and give her another chance.

#3 stars #the burning girls #c.j. tudor #book review #writing #books & libraries #aesthetic #literature #reviews #ghost story #ghost stories #paranormal #spirits #fiction #novel #booksbooksbooks #bookworm #booklr #booklover #bookish #bookstagram #currently reading #horror stories #sussex #2023

[jesslockwood]

Ruby Stokes’ in her new project on paramount plus Uk

The Burning Girls

#ruby stokes #the burning girls #save lockwood and co #disneyforlockwoodandco