But it still greatly bothers me to see real world horror like this as fairly commonplace around the world. Now, despite my Preternatural trilogy leaning on religion, I am not a very religious person, but I am more spiritual, respecting other people’s decisions and beliefs when it comes to their spirituality. They would manipulate a pure thing like faith in a higher power and kindness to your to fellow man, to suite whatever their nasty agendas were, and would convince you that it is justified. And, as insane as it may sound, some of the people in these congregations, even those in leadership and administrative roles, were so abusive and extreme, that I could easily picture them in a role like Daniel’s here. On a side note, speaking of religious-based extremism and abuse like this, I grew up in some very inappropriate and nasty religious settings. And that was what the author wanted you to feel. You wanted this devil of a person to be hurt and massacred, matching all the terrible misdeeds he’s committed over his tenure as a killer. And his use of faith (religion) really was unnerving, too. The one conversation where Daniel takes credit for correcting some of Faith’s prior, unfavorable lifestyle choices and making her believe that she needed his abuse for her own good really stuck out to me. But the entire story is just so consistent in its approach to each aspect of the characters and their uncomfortable encounters, that you are left shaken at times. Now this is much more sexually deviant than my first experience with Olson’s works, and made me a bit squeamish at times. And in some ways she does, even to her own detriment. He has her so brainwashed from a decade of this abuse that she is convinced she can overpower this person on a psychological warfare front. Daniel is just a sadomasochistic psychopath, and Faith is his somewhat willing victim. This book, for example, had ‘Faith’ and Daniel. The thing I really like about Yolanda Olson’s books are how intimate, gritty, and close-range everything is.
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