{"id":20561,"date":"2026-03-02T07:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/?p=20561"},"modified":"2026-02-22T20:26:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T01:26:54","slug":"review-nowhere-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-nowhere-burning\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Nowhere Burning by Catriona Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20560\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-nowhere-burning\/nowhere-burning-cover\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/nowhere-burning-cover.avif\" data-orig-size=\"1875,2850\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"nowhere burning cover\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/nowhere-burning-cover.avif\" class=\"alignright wp-image-20560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/nowhere-burning-cover.avif\" alt=\"cover of Nowhere Burning\" width=\"225\" height=\"342\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/nowhere-burning-catriona-ward\/c17dfe6573e5ad26?ean=9781250860057&amp;next=t\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Nowhere Burning<\/i> by Catriona Ward<\/a><br \/>\nTor Nightfire (February 2026)<br \/>\nReviewed by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/?s=Haley+Newlin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Haley Newlin<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of all of Catriona Ward\u2019s books, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nowhere Burning<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> might be the most unputdownable. Ward is known for her rich, gothic, atmospheric horror that turns readers around and around, only to reveal that the story on the surface is far more complex than they could\u2019ve imagined. In <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nowhere Burning<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Ward delivers another character-driven psychological horror narrative that presents the terrifying possibility that we don\u2019t know ourselves as well as we think we do.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Peter Pan<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> meets <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lord of the Flies<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> horror story, Riley and Oliver suffer abuse from their extremist guardian, \u201cCousin,\u201d until a strange girl in green tells Riley of a place where no adults can enter, a sanctuary for lost children in the mountains, called Nowhere.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It sounds like a haven, but to locals, Nowhere is a mysterious and feared place in the peaks of the Rocky Mountains &#8212; an abandoned hellscape home to feral children and the ghost of an infamous movie star. The outside gates of Nowhere are lined with barbed wire and topped with speared animals.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet, Riley and Oliver want to make Nowhere their new home. They can be safe from the demon that hunts them. Safe from Cousin. But escape and peace are, at best, temporary and, at worst, an illusion. Everything comes at a cost. And the land of Nowhere is alive with want. Pulsating with demand for payment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ward expertly builds tension and unease in the slow-burn mystery style she\u2019s become known for, signaling the end of innocence and awakening the ghosts of trauma throughout.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dread accumulates in each point of view with emotional stress, terror, and wicked revelations that really keep the pages turning. No one ever felt truly safe in this book. It\u2019s like they were all moments away from a terrible fate, doomed because of their hope for an <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">elsewhere<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s something so otherworldly and introspective about Catriona Ward\u2019s books that make each of her releases feel like a memorable contribution to the horror genre, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nowhere Burning <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is no exception. If you enjoyed Ward\u2019s previously published books, including <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Last House on Needless Street <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Little Eve,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> you have to read <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nowhere Burning<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. For fans of folk horror, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Only Good Indians <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by Stephen Graham Jones, Stephen King\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Children of the Corn<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yellowjackets<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nowhere Burning by Catriona Ward Tor Nightfire (February 2026) Reviewed by\u00a0Haley Newlin Of all of Catriona Ward\u2019s books, Nowhere Burning might be the most unputdownable. Ward is known for her rich, gothic, atmospheric horror that turns readers around and around, only to reveal that the story on the surface is far more complex than they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-nowhere-burning\/\" class=\"more-link button bg-gold white\">Continue Reading!<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: Nowhere Burning by Catriona Ward&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80],"tags":[2499,2299,3631,79],"class_list":["post-20561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-catriona-ward","tag-haley-newlin","tag-nowhere-burning","tag-reviews"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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