meghanc02 's review for:

The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang
3.0
Lots of purple prose and grandiose descriptions - I honestly considered DNFing this for a bit because of that, but I stuck with it. I'm kind of glad I did stick with it, but at the same time this book was not my favorite. It was kind of interesting to read through a perspective of this kind of religious fanaticism as someone who isn't religious at all - very much a divergent perspective from mine.

Spoiler I honestly feel like I was reading from the villain's perspective this whole time; after about halfway through the book Misery kind of deteriorated and became a caricature of a religious cult leader. Constantly spouting religious "forgiveness" and other sayings believing barely any of it themself. The heretics feel like the "good" side and the faithful feel like the "bad" side to me.