⭐️⭐️ How about this incredible cover?! Unfortunately, my love stops there. This story started strong, but didn‘t deliver. The idea of an LDS teen taking prepping to apocalyptic proportions was clever, and leaning into her mental health made sense. But as the story progressed, instead of Ellis developing positively, she was portrayed as gullible and unhinged. I didn‘t want that for her.
Expected one thing, got another, and found deep emotional connection. The main narrative explores anxiety, and how that is both internalized and manifested: and also how if you are not careful exploited. As someone who is just recently addressing their anxiety, seeing some of my own literal thoughts on the page was deeply cathartic. I expected science-fiction fantasy and got supplementary therapy.