I am rating Burial Rites a 4.5 star book and highly recommend for those that love historical fiction. I loved the authors style of writing, the way shI am rating Burial Rites a 4.5 star book and highly recommend for those that love historical fiction. I loved the authors style of writing, the way she weaved fiction and fact to bring the historical characters to life. I do wish that somehow the ending was not known until the actual ending. The book tells of the ending at the beginning and then fills in the story afterwards. Possibly, I just didn't like the ending and all through the book wished that it would somehow change....more