When I started, I thought this was going to be a 5 star for me. I love a good religious deconstruction and analysis on the human need for faith in unstable society. However, I was really only upset about the random (felt like to me) romance of Elo and Kissen. Call me a lesbian but if for the entire first half of the book we only see kissen liking women and now just bc they are alone in the woods and are scared start to crave something physical. Also? Really thought Elo was a gay man. But get it I guess. Just like don't have sex right after he makes a fucking dumb decision that endangers everyone and not while a child is within ear shot and waiting on tbe adults to keep her safe but they are too busy trying to figure out how to have hetero sex.