powerfulanne 's review for:

Godshot by Chelsea Bieker

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I thoroughly enjoyed this darkly off-kilter account of a young girl enmeshed in a small town cult. Bieker's ability to write unflinchingly about human nastiness, bodily motions, and environmental devastation reminded me a little bit of Donna Tartt and her The Little Friend, but with a more hopeful ending. I especially enjoyed how Bieker managed to convey the sense that the novel's events both in the recent past (think the 1980s) and the imminent future (cf. environmental devastation) as she slowly revealed that, really, it's all happening right now.