While I love reading about cults, The Last Session was just too dark for me. If you have any triggers at all, this book will activate them. Unfortunately, I chose not to continue after the orgy scene that seemed to have been added more for its shock value than anyContinue Reading
Uncultured is the memoir of a woman born into a cult, who escapes only to join the army, which feels increasingly like a cult too. Cult life is even worse from a child’s point of view. Unprovoked spankings and sexual abuse from a young age is a normal day inContinue Reading
Your Life is Mine has a great hook. Blanche, the daughter of a famous deceased cult leader tries to solve her mother’s murder many years later. Was it simply a random home invasion or has her father’s cult returned to complete his mandate? At the same time, a journalist isContinue Reading
Originally published in 1947, Death Makes a Prophet is one golden age mystery that deserves to find a new audience. The Children of Osiris, or Cooism for short, is a church/cult based on a mishmash of Egyptian gods, astral bodies, meditation and vegetarianism. Its founder, Eustace Mildmann, is the HighContinue Reading