The first 30% of this was absolutely awful. It’s was so slow and I was debating if it was even the book I thought it was. Then we got into the culty stuff and it was better but still just not great. Slow paced, random and all over the place and just overall not what I was expecting. I will say it had the Stephen King vibes - but in the way that there was unnecessary bits that didn’t add to the story in any way other than word count.