A fast, quick, thought-provoking, and enjoyable read. Alex Brown at Tor aptly describes it as “The story is part rural fantasy, part dark fantasy, and part horror. Think Supernatural but darker and queerer.” Danielle Cain is a glorious new anarchist, a vagabond traveler who travels through barely future united states to an anarchist squatter com­munity called Freedom after her friend Clay fled and committed suicide to work out why.  

On top of all the troubles, such a terrible world holds the town of Freedom reveals a terrifying protector spirit — in the form of a blood-red, three-antlered deer — turning on its summoners. In a fantastic world, Danielle observes "Its strange how quickly it's normal there being magic in the world. It's strange how little it changes who we are as people.