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Talia is forced to live with her aunt’s family, including her cousin Lake, with which Thalia has absolutely nothing to do. Through lightning, Tali history is slowly beginning to unfold, explaining why and how she ended up in this live arrangement – and where and how she plans to escape.

Aliya’s mother founded a cult of a mountain in Catskills and this is a cult that invited only women to be part of his world. Her mother founded him for a good reason – Rage, anger, injustice, a desire for a community that took care of women – but the village had so mysteriously around her, even for waist that grew there.

The amount does a fantastic job of the world construction and its settings are lush and challenging. Talia is a complex character forced to navigate her before she reaches the mountain community in which she grew up with the new life in her aunt’s house, stumbling that she is a “typical” high school student. She is angry, but this anger is a necessary driver for her. She uses it to unpack her past to build a future. S S And this is what her cousin lake will include, despite their initial fluctuations in one another.

If you love cult stories, it will be your sweet.