The Virtue of Sin by Shannon SchurenMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
I love cult stories, but I feel like this one was confused about what it wanted to say. The rotating PoVs made it difficult to develop any attachment to any character, and nothing much happened until almost the end, when All The Things happened.
It's not awful; it's a chillingly realistic depiction of a cult, and of how easily a clever con man can keep a whole group of people scared and compliant. It just could have been so much better.
“That’s what I used to think, too. But you know what? There is a choice. I could keep being good Miriam, the girl who does what she’s told. The one who goes along with what everybody else wants. The one who keeps her mouth shut.” I step back, farther into the shadows . But if I keep being this Miriam, I may as well disappear altogether.
“Or what?” he asks, leaning forward. “What else can you do?”
“I can start thinking for myself.”
And there arose a disagreement between them, so sharp they parted ways. —Acts 15: 39
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