I received a free eARC through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. 

This book is, frankly, far more post-apocalyptic than I was prepared for at the moment, but that's on me not the author in any way. Because of that I did end up skimming large sections and at times heavily skipping through a few chapters to avoid the worst of the death, gore, and intense horror. On the whole I found the book to be very solid, but just missing...something. The beginning was strong, very strong. And at times I absolutely loved the prose and the protagonist's voice. She felt very relatable to me, as an ex-fundie. But other parts of the book felt disjointed or overdone, almost.

And I especially felt that the death of literally everyone but Ben and Sophie at the end was unnecessary. I stopped caring once I realized that's what was happening. Turned my emotions off. If someone is going to try to get me to fall in love with a group of characters only to brutally kill off all but the love interest... I'm just not here for it.

This is not bad book, by any means. But it's not the book I wanted it to be, unfortunately.