The world is definitely coming to an end sometime soon, and only the members of the Ark and her sister compound will survive. Romy has spent almost all her life in the Ark, and her half siblings have grown up there, knowing nothing about the world outside. When disaster strikes and most of the members are poisoned, these three must find a way to live in a brand new world without being destroyed by it.
I've read quite a few novels about cults; it's something I'm very interested in. I've rarely read one where the main character wants back in so strongly. Almost all cult novels are written from the point of view of someone who has realised how wrong things are, or realises during the narrative. It's very rare to read one where, despite recognising the luxuries without and the tortures within, they still want to return. It gave me a very creepy feeling.
The characters were slightly thin. Romy is desperate to protect her baby and Ilo is desperate to protect Eden because...they are? There's a suggestion that Romy might want her baby to take over from Uri, but that's between the lines, not explicit. Sarah fell in line very quickly, too.
I did really love the line where Romy calmly explains that of course she doesn't have survivor's guilt, the whole point of her upbringing was to teach her to survive, she did better than anyone else!
All in all, a good, creepy read with an unusual take on cults, but could be better.
Where Romy grew up, if someone died you never spoke of them again.
Now 22, she has recently escaped the toxic confines of the cult she was raised in. But Romy is young, pregnant and completely alone - and if she is to keep herself safe in this new world, she has some important lessons to learn.
Like how there are some people you can trust, and some you must fear. And about who her family really is, and why her mother ran away from them all those years ago.
And that you can't walk away from a dark past without expecting it to catch up with you...
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