This book was so unexpected. When I picked it up earlier this year to read the synopsis, I thought it sounded fun, and that I would get to it at some point. I didn't expect to be so hooked that I finished it in two days.

This book has a bonkers premise, and occasionally it does read like melodramatic YA, as several readers have pointed out. But in many ways, the book brilliantly mirrors its own plotline: it's about a reality television show, and it reads like one. It's addictive and quick and everything feels like a trainwreck in slow motion. And while on the surface much of its style feels lighter, it becomes clear that there is so much darkness under the surface. It's a searing critique of evangelism, the danger of celebrity, the underbelly of Christianity, and small town cultishness, as well as a timely part of the Me Too movement. It holds so much of America's anxieties about what happens when someone comes forward, who suffers from the fallout, and if it's worth it. I think this is an important book that should have a larger platform, and I'm so curious to see what Weir writes next.