if you wanted:
• religious trauma, read “hell followed with us” by andrew joseph white instead.
• allegorically voiceless teenage girl navigating an unjust world, read “the sin eater” by megan campisi instead.
• weird kids doing weird shit, read “miss peregrine's home for peculiar children” by ransom riggs instead.
• an old money cult, read “their vicious games” by joelle wellington instead.
• a fanciful morally gray magic man fucking up everyone’s lives, read “jonathan strange & mr norrell” by susanna clarke instead.