I received an ARC through NetGalley and my review is voluntary and honest.

This wasn't really scary or thrilling, just miserable. 

Amanda is a disabled war veteran with PTSD. Unfortunately, she is also abusive and delusional. In the first chapters of the book, she goes to the house of her ex-husband, who has told her he doesn't want to see her and doesn't want her anywhere near his two young children (who are not hers). He opens the door only partly, and she thinks about how that's stupid because doesn't he know that she could just break the door down if she wanted to go in? Despite this, she somehow acts offended when Patrick tells her that she scares him and he doesn't want to talk to her. Amanda then proceeds to spend most of the book thinking about Patrick and how he's being unfair and he should take her back and let her explain. I was 0% surprised when it was revealed that she hit him at least once. She's a walking collection of red flags.

The rest of the plot was mostly just miserable, with lots of bestial rape, mutilation, and Amanda's whole hometown being a religious cult. It could have been interesting, but it wasn't, and I was too annoyed by Amanda's pining over and blaming Patrick to really get into it.

CW: bestiality, rape, murder, death, mutilation, underage prostitution, drugs, dead babies, probably more