The execution on this sucks so bad. It’s only 69 pages and I wanted to dnf it at every turn.

This one had the eerie vibes, but the pacing didn't work for me.

The deeper you go into Nowhere Burning, the stranger the world begins to feel. Whispering spaces. Dusty floors. Wheezing air conditioners. The atmosphere slowly leans into something haunting and unsettling.

But the chapters are very long and the story moves at a really slow pace. Instead of building tension, I found myself losing focus and at that point I had to DNF.

If you love sloe, atmospheric horror where the mood matters more than the plot movement, this might work for you.

I may come back to it, but right now it just wasn't holding my attention to keep going.

Sometimes, a book doesn't fail because it's bad. It fails because you have never quite settle into the crevices of the story.

Adam's accent was a major hurdle for me. In theory (in real life) Scottish accents are sexy. On the page....well let's say not so much. It constantly made me stumble while reading. Instead of falling into the dialogue, I kept tripping over it.

The writing also feels slightly off kilter. Sentences often include extra words or explanations that interrupt the flow, almsof like the author doesn't trust what their trying to create (or even the reader for that matter).

That lack of confidence shows up in strange ways. Character occasionally respond to questions that were never actually asked. For example Chris is criticized for asking "dumb questions " about what an SR is...but for the life of me I couldn't find where he actually even asked. Later Adam answers what Chris should wear even though Chris never posed the question. Moments like that kept pulling me out of the story.

Individually these are small issues. But together they made it difficult for me to find the cadence of the writing or connect with the story.

Ultimately I chose to DNF. I wasn't enjoying myself, and that's always a better option than hate reading a book because you feel some arbitrary obligation to it.

Thank you to the author for providing me with an eARC to read and review.