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"INTERROGATING THEM! screams Father John. CLAWING INTO THEIR SOULS, RIPPING AND TEARING! VIOLATING! DAMNING THEM TO HELL! His voice is echoes through my skull, sending a shiver up my spine. I silently scream at him to shut up because I won't believe that Dr. Hernandez was telling the truth when he said he isn't enemy, that he generally means no harm. I really want to believe him. I just can't."....
Moonbeam. It’s her name. A teenager living in a religious compound. Brainwashed and unaware. The story alternates between a moment in time when everything changes for this seventeen year old girl, before the fire, and “After the Fire.”
Moonbeam hears Father John in her head. Everything he ever told her about the outside world. Is it true? When the compound is compromised and a fire ensues, she ends up on the outside. Dealing with strangers, wondering who has survived, and the ones she has lost. She is under the care of people she does not believe in, or does she?
What an interesting, and some what traumatic story. Reminded me of what may have happened to people who were part of “Waco.” What happens when your entire world is not what you thought? How do you I learn what has been drilled into you your entire life?
Will Moonbeam find her way in the outside world? Where will she go? What will happen to the others? Read this traumatic story to find out. Felt like a realistic look at what life for a child in a religious cult must be like.
Thank you Will Hill, Netgalley, and Sourcebooks Fire Publishing.
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