A review by notmaiareading
Those Who Prey by Jennifer Moffett

3.0

As someone who reads a lot of books on cults, I was excited when I came across Those who prey as in the non-fiction cult genre. There are not many novels where the main character joins a cult. I found Emily to be written as an extremely naive character who I was constantly frustrated by as their were a lot of red flags that she missed, as they were extremely extremely obvious, I feel like anyone would have been able to pick up on it. I think the boot would have benefitted from setting up Emilys life Pre cult a bit more, as the author makes sure to tell the reader Emily is lonely but does little to show it, which makes it seem like she only joined to get with Josh (however, the author likes to constantly remind as thats not the case, but heavily implying it). I think this book would have been better as a trilogy as she fits a lot of plot into 262 pages with Emily Joining the cult, going on a mission/ escaping, and then the aftermath. Elements of the plot needed to be written in more depth (a key element being the whole mission trip), as well as the book ending with so many unanswered questions. Definitely felt like 3 books in one. Overall, I loved the first half of the book and would recommend it.