Please, please, PLEASE pay attention to the trigger warnings. I was expecting a dark thriller, I wasn't expecting to get slapped in the face with religious trauma. This is not to say the book is bad, it's really good, actually. It has a lot of really important things to say. But the trauma is vivid and descriptive. I think it needs to be, I think it is necessary to make the point the book is trying to make, but that doesn't make it not hard to read. This is one of those books I binged mostly because I had to know what was going to happen.