If you have seen The Vow, then this book is easy to understand. If you haven't watched any of the documentaries or haven't been following along, this book does explain well, but it feels like reporting and not telling the story.

It's full of information not mentioned in the documentaries and from what I haven't read, so I found that interesting. It was the stories about Mexico. I wished the author spent more time building the backstories, so some of the things she wrote about were vague. This is an ARC, so perhaps the author will finesse it a bit before publication.

But overall, an easy to read but quick history and downfall of NXIVM.

I received an ARC from Edelweiss and Steerforth.