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A review by kerasalwaysreading
It's Not a Cult by Lauren Danhof
5.0
I predicted this would end me… and I was correct! The way I was sobbing in the middle of the night while I finished this one? Whew!
This is a debut and I love when a debut totally knocks you on your ass! Well freaking done!!
Our protagonist Glinda Glass is one of those totally a mess characters that make me feel seen! She is incapable of letting people get close, while simultaneously determined to keep the people she loves close to her!
It’s been a few years since the passing of her father, the most important man in her world, and since then, life has been a nonstop shit show, some fault of the universe, some fault of her own.
She doesn’t talk to her twin anymore, her little sister is a typical teenage girl with emotions all over the place, and her mom… well her mom is in a cult.
The only person she can lean on is Troy, a sweet puppy dog type who works with her at a local renaissance fair, though she truly tried to keep him at arm’s length…
This book is perfectly set up, with interspersed chapters that go into the recent past to give backstory on a situational basis. But, it’s the issue of protecting her mom from a money hungry cult leader that is the basis of the book.
This book had me reeling, friends! It gets pretty intense and I loved every minute. It’s Not a Cult does a beautiful and very realistic job of showcasing the family bond and the love of your people, even in times of crisis and fear.
This is a debut and I love when a debut totally knocks you on your ass! Well freaking done!!
Our protagonist Glinda Glass is one of those totally a mess characters that make me feel seen! She is incapable of letting people get close, while simultaneously determined to keep the people she loves close to her!
It’s been a few years since the passing of her father, the most important man in her world, and since then, life has been a nonstop shit show, some fault of the universe, some fault of her own.
She doesn’t talk to her twin anymore, her little sister is a typical teenage girl with emotions all over the place, and her mom… well her mom is in a cult.
The only person she can lean on is Troy, a sweet puppy dog type who works with her at a local renaissance fair, though she truly tried to keep him at arm’s length…
This book is perfectly set up, with interspersed chapters that go into the recent past to give backstory on a situational basis. But, it’s the issue of protecting her mom from a money hungry cult leader that is the basis of the book.
This book had me reeling, friends! It gets pretty intense and I loved every minute. It’s Not a Cult does a beautiful and very realistic job of showcasing the family bond and the love of your people, even in times of crisis and fear.