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***TRIGGER WARNING: SA***
This book was an enlightening, sad, terrifying, infuriating, unique piece of work. I wish I could give it a 3.5.
I didn’t know what to expect beyond what I believed to be a book focused on a young girl who struggles to realize she is in a small-town religious cult after her mother abandons her.
What I did not expect, was that the majority of the book would sexual assault being masked by those in the town as the truly horrific concept of being done “in the name of God.”
It’s really interesting the way they start with Lacey May — the way her voice is at the beginning of the book vs the end really changes and reflects her journey and enlightenment. She begins with a voice so naive and pained for the ways her mother has harmed her that she would do anything, believe in anything, anyone, if it meant a life better than the one she had before.
But very quickly in the book you realize why her mother was really cast out by their manic, narcissistic church leader, even though she was not good to Lacey either. It’s so sickening to see in this story how easily a town, desperate for rain and salvation and prosperity again, would allow such terrible things to happen “in the name of God.”
It was definitely hard for me to get through for that reason.
This story was very much a Handmaid’s Tale vibe meets small-town-cult story.
I felt like the side characters could have been a bit more fleshed out, but i liked the way the author ended it, in many ways.
This book was an enlightening, sad, terrifying, infuriating, unique piece of work. I wish I could give it a 3.5.
I didn’t know what to expect beyond what I believed to be a book focused on a young girl who struggles to realize she is in a small-town religious cult after her mother abandons her.
What I did not expect, was that the majority of the book would sexual assault being masked by those in the town as the truly horrific concept of being done “in the name of God.”
It’s really interesting the way they start with Lacey May — the way her voice is at the beginning of the book vs the end really changes and reflects her journey and enlightenment. She begins with a voice so naive and pained for the ways her mother has harmed her that she would do anything, believe in anything, anyone, if it meant a life better than the one she had before.
But very quickly in the book you realize why her mother was really cast out by their manic, narcissistic church leader, even though she was not good to Lacey either. It’s so sickening to see in this story how easily a town, desperate for rain and salvation and prosperity again, would allow such terrible things to happen “in the name of God.”
It was definitely hard for me to get through for that reason.
This story was very much a Handmaid’s Tale vibe meets small-town-cult story.
I felt like the side characters could have been a bit more fleshed out, but i liked the way the author ended it, in many ways.