SuitabookWicked Little Deeds
Kat Ellis
- Reading
- If suspense feels intense, pause after a chapter and discuss what Ava knows, suspects and may be misreading. Readers who prefer mystery-solving can track the folklore, family connections and changing evidence.
- Themes
- Trauma and perception: Ava experiences nightmares after witnessing a fatal accident, while the story questions whether disturbing experiences are supernatural or connected to trauma. The book appears to take Ava’s distress seriously without requiring one fixed interpretation of what she experiences.
- Folklore and the supernatural: Burden Falls is shaped by legends, eerie symbols and stories surrounding a supposedly cursed waterfall and Dead-Eyed Sadie. The book leaves its stance open to more than one reading.
- Suspicion, evidence and justice: After a brutal murder, Ava becomes a suspect and works with someone she dislikes to uncover secrets and identify the killer. The plot foregrounds investigation, shifting clues and the pressure of suspicion rather than presenting a simple route to certainty.
- Worth knowing
- Be aware that the book includes murder, dead bodies, gore, a fatal car crash, nightmares and threatening suspense.