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A review by zabcia
Occulted by Ryan Estrada, Amy Rose
3.0
75%
This was a very interesting insight into how cults can affect children growing up in them - and how cults control people in general. As fascinating as this perspective was, I am left with so many unanswered questions: why didn't her father take her with him when he left the cult? why didn't the aunt take the younger kids when she took the older one? did no one ever come looking for Amy and try to get her away from the hellhole? why didn't her semi-foster parents fight for her? did her mother ever get out? did she ever reconnect with her sisters? what was it like rejoining her father after so many years? have there been long-term effects of the cult on her? is the cult still around?
Some sort of afterword answering these kinds of questions would bump this up to 4 stars for me.
~Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.~
This was a very interesting insight into how cults can affect children growing up in them - and how cults control people in general. As fascinating as this perspective was, I am left with so many unanswered questions: why didn't her father take her with him when he left the cult? why didn't the aunt take the younger kids when she took the older one? did no one ever come looking for Amy and try to get her away from the hellhole? why didn't her semi-foster parents fight for her? did her mother ever get out? did she ever reconnect with her sisters? what was it like rejoining her father after so many years? have there been long-term effects of the cult on her? is the cult still around?
Some sort of afterword answering these kinds of questions would bump this up to 4 stars for me.
~Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.~