After We Burned

De: Marieke Nijkamp

Narrado por: Laura Knight Keating, Helen Laser, Avi Roque, Taylor Meskimen

She deserved more. They all did. A gripping and emotional new suspense novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Is Where It Ends.

A terrible accident. A horrible loss. A regrettable tragedy. That's all anyone in Fenix can talk about when a fire consumes the local high school, taking the life of a student. The town mourns, except who really knew—let alone cared about—Eden when she was alive? And why was she in the building that night?

Five teens each hold a piece of the truth about what happened. They also have their own secrets, secrets they will fight to protect with the same fury as the blaze that killed Eden. But silence is meant to be broken, and this story can't be extinguished …

©2025 Marieke Nijkamp (P)2025 Recorded Books

Great except for the voice of Theo

4.5 STARS

If I tell a teacher I’d do anything to improve my chemistry grade, does that mean it’s my fault he makes sexual advances?

AFTER WE BURNED is the remarkable story of teenage girls finding their power after being sexually abused by their teacher. Several of these girls have parents who abuse them in various ways, leaving them vulnerable to additional abuse outside the home.

Marieke Nijkamp has a way of capturing the essence of teenagers with complicated lives. Most of the major and minor characters had interesting backstories which show how their thoughts and actions developed. I felt like I *knew* them. I appreciated all of the characters except for Theo, whose thought the school newspaper he created was much more important than it actually was. He envisioned himself a journalist of the same caliber as his famous mother. He and his mother were written as perfect people, which seemed out of place amid other well rounded characters. The individual who voices Theo’s POV had a grating voice.