A review by hannahbellz
Godshot by Chelsea Bieker

4.0

This book is set in the fictional town Peaches, which is near Fresno in California’s Central Valley, and in the midst of an extreme drought. The town is largely composed of members of a cult led by Pastor Vern, who supposedly brought the rain once before. Fourteen-year-old Lacey May is among them, forced to live with her grandmother Cherry after her mother is banished from the group, and unwillingly caught up in Vern’s scheme to strengthen the organization and bring rain to the land.

"And I knew people on the outside of the church wouldn't understand how I could stay instead of leave, withstand instead of run. I would say those people have never been under the hand of a thing so bad it can start to seem good."

Overall a really engrossing, emotional, and well-written book.