Member Review

Why are people sucked into cults?

James Morrow is a reporter at the Post. He’d heard about a group who live off-grid and are waiting for the eclipse to occur so that they can return to the people who they’ve lost – through devastating accidents. It had taken a lot of challenging work for James to be invited by the leader of the group – Sol – to visit.

He stumbles into a cult of severely damaged adults who have experienced terrible losses of wives, children, husbands, and lovers. James can relate to the cases as his lover, Tony, was killed in a motor car accident.

Having been told that it was not a cult and that people are free to leave – James finds a different story once he arrives to interview the leader and his followers. What he finds shocking is the group of children living there called names like Root and Leaf. As it gets closer to the eclipse, he realises that the children have been “bred” to play a significant role so that the cult members can “move into another realm.”

Maybe because I’m a loner and very independent, I can’t understand how three hundred people could be sucked into this group. How they can start to feel they’re in a god-like presence and that, thanks to this “god,” they will get to see their departed loved ones once again.

Beth Lewis writes well and with characters well drawn. I didn’t enjoy the storyline.

Rony

Elite Group received a copy of the book to review.