pretty good

I think a three might be a more honest rating, because for a thriller, there was practically no sense of urgency. At all.
Here's the thing. Cults, it can be generally agreed, are scary. It's in their nature. This one, though... It was sad, yes, it was bizarre, but it wasn't scary. A few reasons: They only had a half-dozen members, including one child and one developmentally disabled young adult. They all suffered from a) horrible trauma in their pre-cult lives and b) the same intense delusion after. Their end game? Did it involve mass murder? Explosions? The forming of a new world order? Nope. They just wanted to kill a guy. One guy. The protagonist. Of course. They figured that by doing so, it would usher in a new age. Ok... So basically, only one person plus the cult members themselves (and the one tragic collateral victim) were ever in any danger, and, honestly, had our hero acted a little smarter, he wouldn't have been in any danger at all. The real villain of the piece? Reckless decision making and a lack of communication.
I did find the anthropological bits interesting, and I love the overarching (but very minor) bunny demon subplot.
I was re-listening to this series, but I accidentally got to this one before book 2, but it turns out, it didn't make much difference. They can more or less be read as stand-alones.
My only other gripe is the same one I had with the first book in the series. There is no nuance in the presentation of both theists and atheists. The characters are caricatures, and it's frustrating.

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