Many thanks to Simon and Schuster Canada and NetGalley for the Digital ARC!

“The music swept me away, as if I had stepped through a portal into a different dimension.”

Daisy, or Daisy-Flower as her dear friend Saffron calls her, escapes a handmaids-tale-esque polygamist cult in BC, Canada to find her freedom. Based on very real cults from very real places in Canada, Leslie Howard expertly balances emotion and truth in this stunning book. As someone who grew up in religion, albeit a non-fundamentalist one, this book deeply resonated with me. The deconstruction, the search for your own identity and truth, and the way to a found family all made me breeze through the story. Though I occasionally felt a lack of emotional depth in the story, and felt parts of the writing to be rushed, I still connected with the main character and her journey.