Wow wow wow .... something about this book called to me in the library and it was everything I've been wanting to read. I love reading books about cults, fiction or non-fiction, and this just hit everything I love. It flips back and forth between past and present, following an 18 year old who ran away to be in a cult at the age of 15. I can't lie and say this book isn't pretentious in its writing because it most certainly is.
However, sometimes pretentiousness works really well to draw the reader into the story and I think this did it perfectly.

This was the perfect length and it never lingered too much at any certain point in the story. The characters, although unlikable for the most part, were just too fascinating to read about. I will say though that the main female character did fall under the "manic pixie dream girl" in that I never felt she was given enough consideration. A lot of her story and actions felt just perfect enough for the main male character's story to keep going and that kind of sucked. But wow that ending hit! My jaw was open the whole last chapter.

Not a complete five star because this is definitely a book I want to revisit; it just feels like little things went over my head.