Dark. Disturbing. But a glimmer of hope right to the very end. 

There are no words that are accurate enough to describe this story. 
A modern fantasy world where not is all as it seems. A caravan travels America and collects found non-humans and brings them into their group where they celebrate their lives and the cycles of the moons with vigorous ferocity. Each of the people who find their way into the caravan were turned into something extraordinary, ie: a man with feathered wings, a woman with serpents for hair and a forked tongue of her own to match, a boy of shadows with glowing red eyes, two brothers each either different features of a fawn, etc. they have no recollection of their human life before they became something other than human. So they’re brought into the caravan for a new life. But it’s not all sunshine and rainbows, there’s something darker lurking beneath. 

 A group of 5 teens find themselves alone after every person in their caravan seems to disappear off the face of the earth. They have to work together to find out what’s happened, and try not to kill each other in the process. 

This book is beautifully written and explores deep and dark topics that happen far too often in our world. It explores the effects of trauma and generation trauma and how people forced into these circumstances find ways to survive and protect themselves. While the idea behind it was the religious cults like evangelicalism, there’s a lot of parallels to other groups who survive and thrive because of deep seated trauma. 

I don’t know what this book was. But it sunk its teeth into my brain and I couldn’t shake it out. I had to keep reading and finish the story. Although I’m not entirely convinced it will let me go even now that it’s done.