This was 5 stars for me for the first 3/4s of the book,  and then it slipped out of allegory to just blatantly explaining what it meant. As an exvangelical, I'm here for the religious trauma allegory, but I was enjoying unraveling that for myself and wanted to see how that would play out symbolically. Instead it was kind of like if at the end of The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, Aslan was like, "Also I represent Jesus Christ, who died for your sins but rose again just like I died in this book and then rose again."