Pub. Date - June 9, 2015
4 stars
Minnow Bly, former cult member and current inmate in a juvenile detention facility, has a lot of secrets, a lot of guilt and a desire to survive. I'm not sure I want to get too much into the plot details as I think I enjoyed this novel more going into it blind. Needless to say, I found this book incredibly, incredibly engrossing from the very first pages. Minnow reveals her entire story in pieces as she makes new friends in lock-up and as these facts pile up, the reader gets a terrifying glance at her former life and her courage to continually search for bigger answers. At times the cult's prophet and members seem a little one dimensional and I wish the author would have delved into these characters with the depth she uses to portray the facility's inmates. Overall, though, I found this a compelling and difficult to set down account of one girl's horrific experiences and her sliver of hopefulness in the face of it all. I received this book from Penguin's First-to-Read program in exchange for an honest review.
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